Bunchberry Connections

If you have excess produce growing please consider sharing with friends and neighbours or donating to local food charities to help others access fresh food. Many thanks!

Some other treasures to enjoy from the garden.... fresh herbs!
Regularly donated to the Burlington Food Bank from the farm.
Have an amazing weekend and spend some time outdoors!

Warmer weather brings herbs, tomato and peppers, headed to the Burlington Food Bank today!

It’s a short week, make it a good one!

Tuesday is traditionally harvest day at the farm. Between rain showers we had quite a few volunteers and some great young people helping us out. Freshly picked herbs and a small assortment of veg to the Burlington Food bank.
Thank you to all our volunteers! Have an amazing week!

Young people are our future leaders and changemakers.
This week a small group of 31st Burlington Beaver Scouts made a visit to find out what is happening at this urban farm, learn about volunteer service and their community. They enthusiastically helped to plant many seeds and 50 small seedlings we had on stand by. They also made some much needed non-persishable food donations to Burlington Food Bank.
Thank you for all your help Beavers and Scouters!

The best weekend in a long time, so glad all that stormy weather and rain is giving us a break!!!!

Enjoy your time outdoors, its great for your physical and mental health!

If you need an activity please check out our space in downtown Burlington.

We are always happy to welcome new faces and friends at our garden community! .org

All this is growing with the support of volunteers for donation to the Burlington Food Bank!!!

Private Property owned and generously loaned for this purpose by the Molinaro Group.

How does your garden grow?
We hope that despite the wacky wet weather, increase in rodents and bugs and extreme swings in temperature, you are able to enjoy and have success in your gardens.
After weeks of groundhogs eating our leafy greens including cabbages, earwigs, slugs, vine borers and powdery mildew attacking squash and pepper plants, blossom end rot on our first tomatoes and a lack of pollinators when it rains, we have captured some good signs in the farm! Let’s meet these challenges, learn from them and continue to grow!!!

While we continue to grow fresh produce for the Burlington Food Bank, you can help too.
Food supports run low on inventory every summer due to less active food drives and natural calendar “holidays” that generate an outpouring of community generousity such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
Food insecurity and hunger doesnt have a season, for so many, it is an everyday challenge. If you are able, please check in with a local charity near you and find out what you can do to assist. Thank you!

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Terrific-ly hot Tuesday!!
Quite a few volunteers popping into the farm over the past few days to help encourage our plants along.
Some returning volunteers and new faces this season, Sanja, Joanna, Spencer and Nick! We are so thankful for your gift of time, energy, knowledge and hard work!
Our tomato plants and a few squash and zucchini plants are starting to take off with the hot weather!
Sam and Connor, with Burlington Food Bank, have begun to harvest some squash, herbs and zucchini. 🥰❤️
Have an amazing week!

A beautiful Saturday in July!
Nishreen and Bernie are regulars at the farm, doing whatever is needed to help out and keep things going. Nishreen also volunteered to help with communications and administrative support this year and is an energetic “hands on” worker at the farm.
Bernie is also a returning volunteer, sharing his experience and knowledge, looking after planting, watering and plant care.
Thank you for joining us at the farm!
Have an amazing weekend!

Throw back video to 2023!
The urban farm continues this summer.
Looking for volunteers on site and donations to help purchase water to fill our 5 water tanks each month.
Contact us thru mesaaging or
email [email protected]
for more info.

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Looking forward to the return of our summer volunteers!
Now that school is out we welcomed back Kristen and Xavier today!
We were able to get loads of work done this morning. Thank you!!
Grass cutting and w**ding, along with some seeding. Since we can “farm” until the snow flies, we take advantage of the extended season and continuously add to the plantings.
It’s never too late!
Have an amazing day and enjoy the outdoors and sunshine!

Our urban farm is so lucky to have volunteers with diverse passion, skills and experiences.
Joel is a super grower and starts his veg seeds early in the season. He donates his time, energy and vegetable plants to help feed our community. Last year he built a tomato tunnel and this year has expanded his efforts.
What an amazing space!! Lets grow!
These will be harvested throughout the season and donated to Burlington Food bank.
Be like Joel and grow vegetables for your’s ( or a neighbour’s table). 🙂
Thanks Joel!
Happy Canada Day everyone!

Growing Wednesday!!

New volunteers always welcome to help us grow food for our community.

Opportunities Monday evening, Tuesday morning, Wednesday evening, Saturday early morning.

Bunchberry.org to sign up.

A special delivery today from Melissa and her wonderful helpers.
For the past few years the kindys at Rattlesnake Point Public School have been learning about seeds, plants and growing food, then donating those plants to the farm that will help feed families who need fresh, healthy food. Thank you to all the staff and students who have cared for these seeds and grown them with love for others.
Its never too young to grow!!!

So thankful for continuing donations of time, energy and plants!
Thank you to Shannon and the crew at the Fortinos garden centre at Appleby/New st. for this “third year” of support and donations!
Hundreds of beets, peppers, cabbage, marigolds and more, to help with filling the garden and growing for Families thru food support programs like Burlington Food Bank.

Thank you to Goodness Me! Natural Food Market for their donation of vegetable plants this week. We continue to plant throughout the season to ensure maximum growth potential to feed the community. 🫑🌶️🍅🥬🥕

Thank you to this small but mighty team for their hard work on Friday.
TD Insurance, team #2 for the week helping with shoveling, prepping, planting and watering on the farm property.
Hoping you are able to visit throughout the summer and fall to see the impact of all these efforts!
Thank you!!

Thanks to great community donations of seedlings and volunteers helping to prep, plant and water, we have some great growing at the farm.

Looking forward to some warm and sunny weather to help out with our many tomato and pepper plants.

Wishing everyone a great week!

To join our volunteer community please visit bunchberry.org.
We will have work sessions a couple of mornings and evenings during the week and a couple of hours on the weekend available.
Happy to sign off on high school volunteer hours.

Thank you to this lovely group of hard working volunteers from TD Insurance, and to Scott for connecting with us! So much was accomplished at the farm today. Soil was moved, w**ds were pulled, grass was trimmed, more donated seedlings were planted!
Great shape for the first week in June, can’t wait to see fruits of this labour in July and August!
Food grown at our location is donated to Burlington Food Bank, a key partner distributing food to those who need it.

Thank you to ND students for the special delivery today!
In the past couple of years when we have an abundance of seed donations we encourage students to learn about growing their own food. Many teachers from schools in halton have reached out and recieved seed packets. After enjoying the activity in the classroom, some of those plants come back to the urban farm to be planted out and produce food which is donated to food support programs like Burlington Food bank.
Notre dame high school has a specialty program (SHSM) in horticulture where students learn about landscaping, plants and trees, grafting techniques and what horticulture businesses and careers could be like for them. At the end of the school year there may be plants that are looking for new homes, what better stepping stone than to be planted out to feed families in our community. Thanks to the students who planted and cared for these gifts and the young men who delivered these to our space!
We will have loads of peppers this season!

This week, thanks to generous donations and volunteers, over 100 seedlings and plants were added to the farm!
Lets hope the local critters don’t eat them all. They have already snacked on some of our sunflowers but thats ok, we have some more seeds we can start and will work on new strategies to protect our baby plants.

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Let’s grow!!

It was feeling like summer out there today! We are always looking to build our volunteer community at the urban farm. At this time of year we are busy w**ding, prepping haybales for planting, planting donated seedlings and seeds, and then of course, watering our thirsty plants!
Sign up on our web site if you are interested in helping out, whether its an occasional hour throughout the summer or a regular time slot, we really appreciate the efforts!
The fabulous end results are donated back to families in the community experiencing food insecurity.
Last year over 2600lbs of locally grown produce and herbs!! Www.Bunchberry.org
There will be volunteers on site Saturday morning 8:30-10:30am. Come see what’s “growing on” in this space!

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Fair weather for gardening! Today the Molinaro Group was on the farm! Moving soil, planting seedlings and seeds and removing over grown w**ds to help clean up the space. There is always a lot to do in the garden and this is one amazing space with so much potential. Building partnerships and community, growing produce to help families experiencing food insecurity and creating a safe space to learn about gardening, building good mental and physical health and creating purpose.
Thank you for all your support and the work done today! Many hands make such a big difference, even in one morning! Let’s grow together!

Even with rain- great turn out!

Our collective effort was awesome! Looking forward to the weeks ahead - incredible community and what we can do together

One of our goals at the farm is to plant and harvest food to support community members who may be experiencing food insecurity and lack access to fresh local produce. Donations from this space are given to programs and services such as Burlington Food Bank for distribution. Sat May 25th 10am-noon is our first public volunteer work session on site. Always looking to make new connections in the community and meet people who want to make a difference. Check out our page for more info and history. This is our 4th season at this location and we hope to surpass last year’s 2500lbs of home grown goodness.
This project is volunteer managed and rely heavily on the generous gifts of time, energy, knowledge and enthusiasm of the community volunteers as well as donations of supplies, water ($) and tools. Many thanks to all those who have contributed. And a special thank you to those groups and companies who have come to join us for work days and get so much done! We look forward to more community building and growing this season.
Come join us!

Melissa and the kindys at Rattlesnake Point school have been busy learning about growing their own food and will have some to plant at the farm in June. Way to go! Thank you for thinking of others in the community!
Rattlesnake Point Public School

Got stress to w**d out? Looking for community, purpose? Have high-school volunteer hours to fill? All found at our Bunchberry Connections urban farm! *NEXT SAT 10AM* we're meeting for a big w**d pull, clean up, and some planting- downtown Burlington and on a bus route.

Drop in welcome but sign up ahead preferred. Pls visit www.bunchberry.org

We grow and donate to the local foodbank

[Weeds are now, other pictures are previous years]

Maplehurst public school kindys have been grow-grow-growing! Thanks to Amanda and staff for their leadership and commitment to their students and teaching, they connect to community by donating their efforts to the farm for planting and hope to help feed other kids thru programs such as Burlington food bank. Amazing!!

Volunteers have been busy starting seeds this spring for planting at the farm once all risk of frost has passed. Usually after Victoria day in May.
Hope you are planning and prepping for growing season too!
If you have space or extra plants consider “growing a row” to donate or give away to help those in our community who experience food insecurity.
Produce grown and harvested at the Urban Farm is given back to the community thru programs like Burlington Food Bank and is only possible due to great partnerships, donations, sponsors and volunteers.
Thank you!
Molinaro Group, City of Burlington, Ontario, Lisa Kearns, Centre for Skills Development,