Fall Farm Fest

Fall Farm Fest – EVERYONE WELCOME !

Bring your family and friends – Free to attend

In partnership with:

Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard and the Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre

Join us this September 28th at the Just Food Community Farm,
located on unceded, unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin Territory.

Enjoy live music, wagon ride farm tours, buy fresh veg 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!

Questions? Contact info@justfood.ca

Additional details/activities/vendors to come!

FREE Activities:

  • Corn roast from Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre (while supplies last!)
  • Live Music
  • Wagon Ride Farm Tours – or walk around the farm and see what’s happening
  • Kids activities
  • Gardening advice from Rob Danforth of Senior Organic Growers 
  • Canadian Organic Growers – Ottawa-St. Lawrence-Outaouais Chapter
  • Native Plant Nursery open house from A Cultivated Art
  • Tour the Community Greenhouse with Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard
  • Nature museum and scavenger hunt with Earth Path
  • Capital Bees tours
  • Women Warriors Healing Garden tours
  • Savour Ottawa Info Booth
  • Community Gardening Network Workshops:
    • Putting Your Garden to Bed for the Fall (Set Yourself Up for Success in the Spring)
    • Garlic workshop
    • Trees workshop
    • Compost workshop
 

Prepared food, fresh & preserved food, drinks for sale from:


Where?

At the Just Food Community Farm
Sunday, September 28th 2025
11am – 3pm
2391 Pepin Court, Ottawa (in Blackburn Hamlet, just East of Vanier)

Free parking; also accessible by bus route #25, and biking.
Visit 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

Newsbites

Start-up Farm Program

Just Food established the Start-Up Farm Program to support new farmers in the Ottawa region. By offering access to land, shared infrastructure/equipment, and training, the program aims to enable more people in this region to start their own successful farm business.

> Read More about Just Food’s Start-up Farm program