Events
Upcoming Events
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2025 Farmers Market Season
Who’s ready for the 2025 Farmers Market Season? GardenShare is!
St. Lawrence County Farmers Markets are in full swing! Farmers Market Season is a fantastic time to get acquainted with the experience of eating with the seasons. The market is a fantastic opportunity to stock up on local produce, meats, maple syrup and farm fresh eggs, get transplants for your personal garden, or pick up some delicious baked goods! Our county’s Farmers Markets are also wonderful places to find gifts for your loved ones as well!
GardenShare is also excited to announce a $50/Day cost-sharing match for SNAP/EBT recipients! Visit the GardenShare booth for more information!
‘Sheparding’ the Land
Join us for a night of music, food, and regenerative farming! On October 3, 2025, GardenShare will be hosting a very special event and discussion about the importance of Regenerative Farming. This event will be held at the Crary Mills Community Center starting at 5:30pm.
We are excited to partner with Healing Pastures and Canton Apples for an evening of music, food and regenerative farming. Mark Shepard of New Forest Farm, Wisconsin will be at the event sharing insights about his farming along with his musical talents. To learn more, go to gardenshare.org/sheparding/.
To make this event accessible for all, admission price is a donation of your choice to GardenShare. This is a cash only venue.
If you are interested in sponsoring any of our upcoming events, please take a moment to read the information here. Our financial sponsors help GardenShare’s fundraising events to be even more successful, while also supporting the farmers and producers that assist us in making these events happen. We appreciate your time and consideration.
Growing Community Award
Each year, GardenShare recognizes an individual or organization whose efforts strengthen food security in northern New York with the Growing Community Award. Past recipients have included farmers, food service staff, a food bank, community groups and others. The award is presented at our Fight Hunger Fair in September that welcomes all interested in and passionate about working together to ensure a healthy local food system.
Past Events
2020 Celebration of Community Food Heros
In 2020, instead of a solo recipient of the Growing Community Award, we chose to celebrate multiple people and organizations that made huge impacts throughout our community.
Community members submitted videos and stories telling stories about their personal food heroes. We chose 10 of those heroes that best exemplified our mission. These awardees were presented from Monday, 1/18 to Friday 1/22 with videos highlighting their contributions.
Recipients: Anna Campbell / Canton CSD Cafeteria Staff / Canton UMC Free Will Dinner Team / Colton Churches / Flip Filippi / Jeanna Matthews / littleGrasse Foodworks / Peggy McConeghy / Michael Schuckers / Therese Baxter and the Parishville-Hopkinton Backpack Program
Fight Hunger Fair
GardenShare hosted the Fight Hunger Fair to bring together the community to remind us all that our friends and neighbors need our help to ensure that they have access to healthy, local food.
This fun and family-friendly community event brought awareness about food justice work in St. Lawrence County. Before, during and after the 5K run/walk, there were educational games and activities centered around food system awareness, a story walk, and music, as well as tabling of community partners who strive to alleviate local hunger and food insecurity.