Toronto Botanical Garden

September 25, 2010 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come enjoy Harvest Day at the Toronto Botanical Garden! It’s a time of celebration and giving back to our community. Come join the children of TBG programs harvest the Teaching Garden or create and participate in art, music and drama with Discoverability, support Soupalicious with a bowl of soup made by top chefs and fresh TBG garden produce, buy your fall pumpkins and stunning pre-made outdoor urns or just enjoy a beer and some people watching in the Beer Garden.

Throughout the year the TBGKids instructors guide school groups through planting and care of the Teaching Garden. Encouraging children to learn about where their food comes from and introducing them to the wonder of fresh produce right off the vine lures campers and visitors back to the TBG to harvest the veggies for Harvest Day every year. Each summer campers, students, families and garden volunteers harvest an average of 700 pounds of fresh produce to donate to the North York Harvest Food Bank.

This year TBG is partnering with Plant a Row•Grow a Row and presenting Soupalicious for Harvest Day. This is a celebratory culmination of the 2010 food gardening season where chefs will create soups from TBG’s organic vegetable garden to share with the public. Donations from Soupalicous will go to support Plant a Row•Grow a Row and the Toronto Botanical Garden.

As a special treat for children of all ages, Discoverability will join forces with TBGKids programmers in the Teaching Garden area from 12 Noon to 4 p.m. doing various performances, demonstrations and displaying of artwork. Discoverability is a project that specializes in presenting young people with the challenge of trying and mastering a wide variety of artistic and athletic skills. Children and their families will enjoy a no-cook strawberry preserve demonstration, Stone Soup storytelling, Suddenly Art- painting and musical performances and an interactive dramatic production as part of the TBG Harvest Day celebrations.

Don’t forget to pick up your fall pumpkins and fall plants for sale in the TBG shop, as well as pre-made fall urns- just slip the liners in and enjoy! Savour a beer and the view at the Beer Garden on the TBG’s West View Terrace!