Squashes, gourds and melons Peppers Tomatoes Root vegetables
Container or small space gardens Pollinator gardens
Funniest fruit or vegetable Best fruit or vegetable arrangement
Best squashes, gourds and melons
Includes squashes, pumpkins, zucchinis, cucumbers, ornamental gourds, bitter melons and sweet melons.
1st Place: Kam Ping Young
2nd place – Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers
3rd place – Melodie Ng, Flemingdon Park Ministry’s the Common Table
Best peppers
Includes sweet, hot and dried peppers
1st place – Alysha Arseneau, Rogue Farms
2nd place – Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers
3rd place – John Doleweerd, Scarborough Village Community Garden
Best tomatoes
1st place – Melodie Ng, Flemingdon Park Ministry’s the Common Table
2nd place – George Stojkovic
3rd place – Rosina Leung (Brad’s Atomic Grape tomatoes)
Best root vegetables
Includes any vegetable with an edible root (such as potatoes, eddoes, radishes, carrots, daikons, Jerusalem artichokes/sunchokes or beets). Can be a single vegetable or a bunch.
1st place – Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers
2nd place – John Doleweerd, Scarborough Village Community Garden
3rd place – Alysha Arseneau, Rogue Farms
Container or small space gardens
1st place – Suzanne Isaacs
2nd place – Valerie Wood
3rd place – Ruden Miguel
Best pollinator gardens
Gardens containing plants that attract and support pollinators.
1st place – Suzanne Isaacs
2nd place – Dimitra Psomopoulos
3rd place – Nicole Beier
Funniest fruit or vegetable
Fruits or vegetables with a natural, unusual shape, colour or size
1st place – Ruden Miguel (snake gourd)
2nd place – Jamie Fleck
3rd place – Alysha Arseneau, Rogue Farms
Best fruit or vegetable arrangement
Arrangement of two or more fruits and vegetables
1st place – Melodie Ng, Flemingdon Park Ministry’s the Common Table
2nd place – Ruden Miguel
3rd Place – Maria Sherry Lacson
Innovation
These are people who have discovered a new way to grow food in the city! This can be a structure or system for growing plants, a clever way to water or a composting system.
1st place – Sean Smith, Crooked Farmz for a schematic of a backyard compostery
2nd place – Lowell Lo for LED growlights in repurposed plastic containers
3rd place – Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers
People’s Choice Awards
Best Squash, Gourd or Melon – Alysha Arseneau, Rogue Farms
Best Vegetable Arrangement was a tie!
Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers
Melodie Ng, Flemingdon Park Ministry’s the Common Table
Toronto Urban Agriculture Week 