Help support your community orchard and meet your neighbours at our first annual spring fundraising sale on Saturday May 5, 2018 from 9.00am to 1:00pm. If it rains we will hold the event on Sunday at the same time.

Each year, we at the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard in Toronto, have the same problem. Caring for fruit trees and a pollinator garden doesn’t cost a fortune, but it does cost money annually and as a totally voluntary group we have no funding to pay for organic fertilizer for our trees, plants and herbs for our pollinator garden, and funds to help pay for any events we organize in our park.

So this year we have decided to hold our first annual fundraising sale. On Saturday May 5, 2018 we will be in the park with a carefully curated collection of house and garden plants for sale as well as gently used housewares, small furniture and decor items, costume jewelry and women’s accessories, sporting goods and lots of fantastic gardening and fiction books.

We also will have a raffle where you will be able to buy tickets to win high value items and gift certificates from local shops.

We’d love it if you could come and join us! Do a little shopping and you’ll know that 100 percent of the funds raised will go to support our orchard, pollinator garden and our park activities.

We hope to also have some coffee donated by our fantastic local Starbucks and Sherry, a pastry chef and one of our key volunteers, will bake some delicious butter cookies that you can buy (money again goes to our orchard). Come and meet your neighbours while supporting a wonderful local project.

Our park is at Eglinton Avenue West between Everden Rd and Strathearn Road in Toronto and is just steps away from the Eglinton West subway station. We hope to see you there! 

Susan Poizner is the coordinator of the Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard. She is the author of the award-winning fruit tree care book Growing Urban Orchards and the creator of the award-winning fruit tree care training website at www.orchardpeople.com. She is also the host of The Urban Forestry Radio Show on RealityRadio101.com.