In partnership with:
Gloucester Community Food Centre and the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre
Join us at the Just Food Community Farm for our 5th annual Fall Farm Fest,
located on unceded, unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin Territory.
Enjoy live music, wagon ride farm tours, buy fresh produce at the Just Food Farm Stand, enjoy a variety of free activities, bring your own picnic, and buy prepared, fresh and preserved foods from local vendors.
Free to attend and full of fun, there’s something for everyone!
We’ll see you there!
Enjoy Tons of FREE Activities:
- Corn roast from Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre (while supplies last!)
- Live Music by Kathy Surkan (@insertgirlname)
- Wagon Rides and Farm Tours – or walk around the farm and see what’s happening!
- Kids activities
- Nature museum & scavenger hunt
Vendors
Busog Buns – Stuffed Filipino Pandesal (think of a baked bun covered with bread crumbs)
Sheepdog Grill – (meat – lamb burgers and sausages)
The Hot Pepper Lady – Vegetables and Jollof rice (orders can be placed ahead of time by sending an email to info@thehotpepperlady.ca)
Triple Jae Kitchen – Haitian-style seasoning marinade made of fresh vegetables and herbs to elevate dishes’ flavour
Forêt Capitale Forest – Jams, seedlings
Chi Garden Ecological Farm and Fermentation Kitchen – Vegetables and preserves.
Women Warriors’ Healing Garden and Green’s Creek Donkey and Mule Sanctuary
Capital Bees – honey, beeswax products, condiments, and a few bee themed trinkets
7 Hues Eco Farm – preserves, chili oil, fermented chili sauce and kimchi.
Earth Heart Organics – Vegetables
Nanabush Food Forests – Selling preserves and products from food forests and likely some food-bearing plants/shrubs.
Likebel Farm – Vegetables
Information Booths
- Canadian Organic Growers/Senior Organic Growers – ask a gardener (Rob Danforth)
- Bountiful Beavers
- Savour Ottawa
- A Cultivated Art
- Earth Path
- Greens Creek Donkey Sanctuary
- Capital Bees
- Rooted Connections
Workshop Schedule:
More information to come
Dig deeper with our free Community Gardening Network workshops!
Looking to grow your skills and get inspired? Don’t miss this incredible lineup of free workshops at Fall Farm Fest:
Workshops run approximately every 45 minutes throughout the event. Drop in anytime – no registration required!
Getting to the Farm
The Just Food Community Farm is located at 2391 Pepin Court in Blackburn Hamlet, Ottawa.
We offer free parking onsite. You can also get to the farm by public transit: bus route #25/ LRT: Blair , or by bike.
Click here for more information on directions.
Accessibility info:
We have an accessible lift and washroom in the Big Red Barn
Our pavilion, where most vendors are located, is paved, and will have a rubberized pathway from the parking lot for access
Our roads are compacted gravel with mixed terrain and sloping
We will have staff and volunteers on site that will be available for support
Music will be playing throughout the day, one generator may be running, please notify a member of staff or a volunteer if you are in need of locating a quiet space
We have 2 portapotties on site (in addition to accessible washroom in barn)
Workshops will be held in the Big Red Barn, which is accessed either via a set of stairs leading up one flight, or via an accessible lift.
If you have any questions on accessibility, please contact director@justfood.ca
