Ontario Farmers’ Market Tour Update: Brickworks, Liberty Village and Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Heirloom Tomatoes at MyMarket Liberty Village

Another weekend of the Buy Local Share Local farmers’ market tour, and another weekend of rain! While the rain held out until I left Brickworks market on Saturday we weren’t so lucky at Liberty Village yesterday. I’m starting to get used to the torrential rains (but not the lightning). Even with the rain on Sunday, we still collected around 200 pounds of produce for Daily Bread Food Bank this weekend, thanks to generous market goers and as always some very generous vendors. I’d especially like to thank Greenfields Organic Farm for a donation of fresh, nutritious kale and swiss chard.

Some of the donated produce at Brickworks Farmers' Market Saturday

Some interesting finds this weekend

At Brickworks on Saturday I bought some heirloom seeds at Urban Harvest for a friend with a vegetable garden. There were lots of interesting varieties, but I settled on Easter Egg Radishes and Lunar White Carrots. At the end of the day, Urban Harvest came by and donated some basil and dill plants for Daily Bread to plant in their garden and use in their on-site kitchen!

At Liberty Village on Sunday, after the downpour I ventured out from under the canopy to do my shopping. I purchased some raw sweet potato fries and  zucchini. With the zucchini I made chocolate chip zucchini cookies using a recipe from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. (I didn’t have whole wheat flour, and not wanting to go out in the rain again, I used all-purpose. The cookies were cake-like and turned out deliciously!)

My cake-like Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Buy Local Share Local will be at Stonegate Farmers’ Market this Tuesday in the parking lot of St. James Humber Bay Anglican Church (Parklawn near the Queensway). All donated food will go to the St. James Humber Bay Food Pantry on-site. Come on out, buy some fresh local food and buy a little something extra to help those in need. Every little bit helps!

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