What you’ll learn: How to braid soft neck garlic. You’ll create a braid with nine garlic bulbs. Workshop location: It’s Giving Farm booth. Fee: $40.00, payable to instructor Fianni Dirks at the start of the workshop. The fee includes the nine-bulb garlic braid you take home. Cash...
Véronique is sharing her discoveries about garlic, its many names and connotations gleaned among diverse cultures. Véronique Perez has an equal passion for communication, cooking and languages. Originally from Paris, France, she moved to Toronto in 1976 as a film director and actress. Working at Radio-Canada, she...
This year’s Culture Talks workshop is a hands-on lesson in making a traditional Indigenous medicine pouch — a sacred bundle that may hold tobacco, sage, and other medicines, prepared and sealed for the person who carries it. It is led by Tiffani Vart, a 22-year-old...
Amanda Johnson will share her passion and knowledge of all things horticultural in the Teaching Garden during the festival. The Teaching Garden is located outside, and is accessed through the Children’s Conservatory. Amanda is an Urban Farmer, landscape apprentice and houseplant enthusiast. Amanda brings her focus...