Events
Upcoming Events
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A Little Mud (Season) Music
Please join us this spring for three Saturdays of music and merrymaking hosted by GardenShare at the Crary Mills Community Center. The series, playfully titled “A Little Mud (Season) Music,” will include performances from local favorites Boyden Brook Band and the Phoenix Jazz Collective plus very special guests all the way from Boston, Seba Molnar and Friends.
More information is available here.
2025 Farmers Market Season
Who’s ready for the 2025 Farmers Market Season? GardenShare is!
St. Lawrence County is quickly approaching the opening of the Spring Market Season! The Spring Market Season is a fantastic time to get acquainted with the experience of eating with the seasons. While there are not as many produce options available during the month of May, the market is a fantastic opportunity to stock up on 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!
GardenShare is also excited to announce a $20/Day cost-sharing match for SNAP/EBT recipients through our Bonus Bucks program until June 30th! Starting July 1st, the Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program will become available to offer the same $20/Day match for SNAP/EBT shoppers. Visit the GardenShare booth for more information!
Support our local farmers, environment, and economy by shopping at the St. Lawrence County Farmers Markets this season!
GardenShare Dinner Series, Summer 2025
GardenShare is excited to announce our 3-part Local Dinner Series will be returning in 2025. Planning is happening and we will be announcing the Dinner Series locations soon!
Fight Hunger Fair
GardenShare’s annual Fight Hunger Fair brings 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 brings awareness about food justice work in St. Lawrence County. Before, during and after the 5K run/walk, there will be 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.
We are in the process of planning this event and will share more information as it’s available.
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
Cabin Fever Trivia Night
GardenShare hosted a Cabin Fever Trivia Night every March through 2020 in which teams of four competed to answer fun – and challenging – questions relating to food and food production in St. Lawrence County.
Categories have included topics such as “Find the Fake Cultivar,” food related movie trivia, North Country geography, and “a guess that veggie puree” taste test.