The Good Food Stand: A New Project Provides Affordable Healthy Food
Photo by Kathy SturmeyBY TARA KAINER, JPIC, AND KATHY STURMEY, GOOD FOOD STAND ORGANIZER The Good Food Stand, a two-year pilot project initiated by the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Food Access Advisory Committee, “launched under cloudy skies...
Community Harvest Kingston celebrates farmers markets 150+ years in Ontario
From left: MPP Sophie Kiwala, Sister Gayle Desarmia and Sister Diane Brennen.Sister Diane Brennen spoke at the Community Harvest Kingston’s second Canada 150+ event on August 30, 2017. Sister Gayle and I are pleased to be part of this celebration commemorating...
Warmth on Wednesday afternoon at the market
It was an event day. A festival. There was music. Food for the taking. An artist making dragons and tigers out of boys and butterflies and flowers out of girls. Even though it was the end of September, the Community Harvest Market in Kingston's North End was aglow...
At year 7, the Community Harvest Market is a going concern
Over 100 visitors turned out for Community Harvest Market’s Special Event on August 26. Regular produce and craft vendors, as well as Community Harvest Kingston itself, which sells a variety of fresh, healthy produce from its own urban, organic gardens, were on hand....
Agrovelocity visits the Community Harvest Gardens and the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary
July 10, 2015: Great visit today from Clément Gremillet and Maximilien Koegler who are from France, learning about and filming urban gardens across North America. They asked to learn about the Community Harvest Garden that operates in a food desert in Kingston’s north...
Innovative Food Projects / Part of Solution
Community Harvest Working Group members Frank and Jamie volunteer for the market’s 2009 Grand Opening.BY TARA KAINER Enhancing food security in Kingston is fast becoming a poverty reduction strategy. High rents and utility costs make it increasingly difficult for...
Canadian author visits Kingston
Margaret Atwood — Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner.BY TARA KAINER Margaret Atwood, arguably Canada’s best-known writer, appeared on September 23 at a Private Reception in the Davies Lounge of the Grand Theatre for a local Kingston group,...