By Rachel L. (Aug 15, 2010)
The Brick Works used to the largest of its kind in the early 1900’s, producing 100,000 bricks daily. However, as the quarry grew larger, the chimneys belched more and more pollutants. The runoffs from the Brick Works killed fish, and the dynamite blasting clay and shale scares off swimmers from Don Valley River. In the 80’s, after most of the clay and shale had been quarried, the site was expropriated by the city of Toronto and eventually was purchased by Evergreen, an environmental non-profit organization and converted it into the green space that it is now.
Every Saturday throughout the summer, the Evergreen Brick Works Farmers’ Market features a fabulous assortment of fruits, vegetables, wild fish, meat, cheese, milled flours, eggs and oils—all from local farmers. Today we were welcomed to the marvellous Blueberry Festival.
Parking lot at the Brick Works
I’d like to be a nature nut :)
Very cool beaten metal entrance door
Garden Centre Entrance
The factory’s storage sheds, now converted into public spaces. Today’s theme – BLUEBERRIES!
This amazing blueberry tart was made by Martin Kouprie, chef and co-owner of Pangaea restaurant! We also had the blueberry sorbet, which was out of this world, but I finished it too quickly and didn’t get a picture of it :P
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Live music performance
The original historic buildings offers the romance of city history
One of the wetland ponds created from the old quarry
There’s more in the park that we could have explored, such as the man-made beaver lodge, the quarry garden, and the decommissioned brick kiln. However, it started pouring rain so we had to cut our trip short. There’s more exciting new facilities coming soon in September for their grand opening as well. I can’t wait to go back and see more of it!
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