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Community Market Summer 2025
Our Fridays were very eventful this summer here at the Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee, with the Community Market buzzing with people, food and activities. With an average of 10-15 vendors coming every Friday, the market was always a lively hub for the community....
Arts in the Park and Clean Park Campaign 2025
The Arts in the Park, paired with our Clean Park Campaign, an initiative we have been running for many years to keep our park clean, continued this year in full swing. We ran it every Friday during the community market to engage the children in keeping the park clean...
Garden Drop-in Program Summer 2025
As the last days of summer approach and the children’s garden drop-in program comes to a close in the coming week, here is a recap of what the children did and learned in the garden this year. One of the “fan favourite” activities was...
Building Community Through Our Market
At the heart of the Thorncliffe Park community, the Thorncliffe Park Community Market has been an energetic and vibrant hub for the past 15 years. Every Friday from May to October, hundreds of our neighbours gather in R.V. Burgess Park from 3 p.m. until sunset,...
Running a Sustainable and Educational Garden
A Community Garden is a city-approved area run by the neighbouring community as a group. Gardening has slowly become a popular recreational activity in Toronto, with more people having a growing understanding of its importance due to its environmental and social...
Special guests in R.V. Burgess Park: City Parks Alliance
Since 2008, the Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee has strived to revitalize our community public green space – R.V. Burgess Park. With the efforts of the community, we’ve lobbied the City of Toronto to help improve our park. We’ve been extremely lucky to see a...
Promoting environmental leadership – a peek into our Youth Stewardship Program
Our youth stewardship program took place over the course of two weeks during the summer season. A number of youth from the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood participated in the annual program which engages young community members in environmental stewardship and...
Why Urban Gardening? Building Food Security, Friendship and Community
I love seeing this contrast between gardener Davina’s ceiling of cucumber plants and the high-rise infrastructure in the background. This varied landscape carries a long history of growing food in cities on Turtle Island and in modern Canada. At the community...
What We Learned This Year in the Garden!
With the first day of school fast approaching, our children’s drop-in gardening program is coming to a close. Let’s take a quick look at some of the exciting things we’ve learned this summer!Some of the veggies we got to enjoy were lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, and...
Photo Recap: Youth Stewardship Program 2017
It's that time of year again! Our youth stewardship program has returned! Here at the Thorncliffe Park Women's Committee, we're big on the environment. For that reason, a number of our programs focus on encouraging environmental conservation and sustainability. This...
TPWC Family Garden Trip to Whittamore’s Farm
On Wednesday, July 11th, twenty of the gardeners from the Thorncliffe Family Garden piled onto a yellow school bus, and set off to Markham, Ontario. Our destination? Whittamore's Farm! We spent a lovely, sunny afternoon at the farm picking strawberries together. Once...
Inauguration of the TPWC Park Café
This summer has been an exciting one for us here at the Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee. After yet another fruitful season of our weekly community bazaar, we hosted the grand opening of our brand new Park Café last Friday!Thanks to our incredible supporting...
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