Bloomin' Earth Festival

We've had a busy weekend - took part in the local Bloomin' Earth festival at Kitchener Market, along with 70 other craft vendors! What an array of creative talents, so many local, and with a focus on earth-friendly goods! It was great to see so many familiar faces who stopped by our booth. We were sharing tent space with the talented Amaryah of Sew Oiseau, and next to us was Eve from Eve's Little Earthlings!

Come Visit! Local Festivals & Events - find seedlings, handmade goods, local food and more

Happy Earth Week, and the start of garden season, to all you local Foodies, Transition Towners, Gardeners, Permaculturists, and Urban Homesteaders! 

There are several WONDERFUL LOCAL FESTIVALS & EVENTS COMING this next month celebrating local food, local crafting & arts, and creating vibrant communities!  Please read the list below and follow the links for more details. 

COME SAY HELLO!  Little City Farm will be vending our seedlings, soaps & botanicals, and baked goods at these various events - so please drop by and say hello!  We'd love to see you, and if we haven't met in person, please come introduce yourself!

Bloomin' Earth Festival
Sat, April 24 from 9 am -4 pm
at Kitchener Market in downtown Kitchener
More than 60 vendors confirmed for this amazing handmade craft/art sale!   Plus junkyard symphony, recycled fashion show and more!

http://bloominearth.wordpress.com/

Stitch' n ' Kitsch Craft Show & Sale

Sat, May 1 from 10 am-5 pm

at First United Church, corner of King & William St, uptown Waterloo

Handmade pottery, soap, jewellery, bags, knitwear, dolls, children's items, accessories, paper goods, art, and so much more!

http://www.stitchnkitsch.com/

 Waterloo Farmers and Crafters Market

Every Thursday from 4-8 pm, May through October

at the Uptown Waterloo new public square

An exciting new market where you will find local organic produce, and handmade artisan/crafters goods, and so much more!  Little City Farm will be there with our handmade soaps & botanicals!

www.waterloofarmmarket.ca

Little City Farm 8th Annual Seedling Sale!!

Sat, May 22 from 9 am -12 noon

at Little City Farm location, 508 Duke St W, Kitchener

Organic heirloom varieties of vegetables and herbs.  Specializing in heirloom tomatoes - more than 20 kinds available.  Also baked goods, gardener's soaps/salves, handmade garden aprons, and more exciting finds!  3 vendors, more than 1000 seedlings!  Come early for best selection and plan to stay for a while to meet local foodies & urban gardeners!

http://www.littlecityfarm.ca/workshops-1.php

Bloomin' Earth Festival, April 24

For Earth Week this year there is a week long series of eco-friendly events taking place in downtown Kitchener! Come see us at the Bloomin' Earth Festival, Sat, April 24 from 10 am-4 pm, at the Kitchener Market. Bloomin' Earth will feature upto 70 vendors selling handmade goods, an eco fashion show, sustainability workshops, and more! We'll be there with info about Little City Farm, plus our handmade soaps, healing salves, and herbal blends.

www.bloominearth.wordpress.com

blooming earth festival

We had a busy day yesterday, celebrating "earth day" with the Blooming Earth Festival at our local farmers market. We were part of a large handmade market that showcased 30-40 vendors making all manner of handmade goods - with the emphasis on natural, upcycled, or organic products. A few photos above show our display. Greg made the display cases out of wood that is over 100 years old, which was salvaged from a renovation job he worked on! He's been saving it for just the right project and this was it. We had soaps, salves, teas and you can see the new organic buckwheat dream pillows.

We got up around 5 am (I have great respect for all the local farmers who do this every week for market!), and in the just breaking dawn surrounded by spring bird song and an otherwise sleeping city we headed downtown with our bike trailer loaded full of our products, and baby bundled into her stroller. It felt empowering to be able to walk with everything we needed for the booth and display, rather than having to depend on a vehicle. It made us think about doing walking vacations, where we simply pack up our bike trailer with tent, sleeping bags and food and head out the door. We hope to do some of this kind of walking (or bicycling) vacation this summer.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth - it was nice to have such community support, and all those extra hugs for baby Maya! We had many conversations about city chickens, as there are plenty of people curious about what it's like to have a few hens and how they might get some for themselves. We are always happy to talk about our urban homesteading projects, and hope that we can inspire others to try some of these aspects in their own lives. Even what may seem like small steps, for example gardening a few tomatoes in a container on the front porch, committing to buying local, naturalizing your front lawn, or setting up a few more rain barrels, is worthwhile and part of the ongoing urban homesteading journey.

Bloomin Earth Festival at the Kitchener Market, April 25

As part of City of Kitchener's "Living Earth Festival" there are all kinds of eco activities going on during the week of Earth Day (April 22)...

Bloomin Earth makes it's second annual debut, this time at the Kitchener Market on Sat, April 25 from 8 am-2 pm. Check out vendors, eco exhibitors, kids activities, eco crafting workshops and more! Their website has more details at: www.bloominearth.wordpress.com

We plan to be there, with info on Little City Farm activities, urban homesteading/agriculture, as well as soaps and other handmade products from Homestead Herbals. Hope to see many familiar and new faces at our booth - stop by to say hi!