The Downtown Timmins Urban Park as such is closed for the winter. However, the urban farmers market is still running.
BIA executive director Noella Rinaldo says it can’t not have a market at the peak of harvest season.
“So we’re going to have the Urban Park Market every Thursday from now until the end of September,” she advises My Timmins Now Dot Com.
This week’s focus was on preserves. Next week it’s peppers, followed on the 19th by root vegetables,and Applefest on the 26th.
Rinaldo says a woman whose family has raised apples for four generations will bring 14 kinds from the orchard near London.
“She comes with all these apples and tells you which ones are the ones you should be cooking with, and which ones are good for pies and that kind of thing,” Rinaldo remarks. “So it’s a really exciting month of September for us.”
She adds that produce never before seen from farms in this area is now showing up. For instance, four years ago, there was no local corn. Now there is. And last week, one local farmer sold apples from his property.
“Climate change has changed. So maybe we will have an Applefest with all the apples from Timmins. But right now these will be coming from an orchard in Southern Ontario, but you will be able to talk to the farmer themselves.”
The market bell rings every Thursday at 11:00am. The market is open until 3:00pm.