The Leslieville Farmers' Market has two Sundays left in Greenwood Park. On November 1 it moves into a building most regulars only know by its address: 1470 Gerrard St. E., a 1925 Art Deco church that also houses a commercial kitchen, a food-security program and a governance partnership. The market runs a large share of it.
The indoor season takes the market back to a place its operator spent years helping to build.
The Calendar, Counted In Sundays
The Leslieville Farmers' Market publishes its 2026/2027 season as three blocks, all on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Outdoors at Greenwood Park, 150 Greenwood Ave.: May 10 to October 25, 2026. Only October 18 and October 25 are left.
- Indoors at the East End Food Hub, 1470 Gerrard St. E.: November 1 to December 20, 2026. That's eight Sundays.
- No market: December 27 through February 21. That's nine Sundays.
- Indoors again at the East End Food Hub: February 28 to May 2, 2027. That's ten Sundays.
The market's Greenwood Park page says "from November to May, we move indoors to the East End Food Hub." The dated schedule is more precise. After December 20 there are more Sundays without a market than there were Sundays in the whole fall indoor run. The vendor application gives the same dates, including the February 28 to May 2, 2027 spring block. If you stock up on preserves, eggs or baked goods at the market, December 20 is the last Sunday until the end of February.
The Building On Gerrard
Doors Open Ontario lists 1470 Gerrard St. E. as Glen Rhodes United, built in 1925 in the Art Deco style as a place of worship. Weekly worship services still happen there. On a market Sunday the building serves both purposes.
How the food hub ended up in a church is a story about city policy. The hub's own history page traces it to November 2016, when City Council directed staff to look for partnerships that could expand food programs in the Coxwell-Gerrard area. In January 2018 Council started a feasibility study for a food hub there. The Neighbourhood Food Project, which already ran the Leslieville Farmers' Market, proposed the study, with support from FoodShare Toronto.
In May 2018 the City authorized a Community Food Hub Feasibility Project, and the work took shape at Glen Rhodes Church. In November 2018 the City funded Applegrove to hire the Neighbourhood Food Project, then called Greenbelt Markets, to launch pilot programming. By June 2019 the hub was running.
So the market's operator helped write the plan for the building before the market ever spent a winter in it.
Who Actually Runs It Now
By 2024 the project had grown into the East End Food Hub, and a governance committee was formed. It has four partners: Applegrove, the Leslieville Farmers' Market, Nourish East End and East End United Regional Ministry. The hub's history says the market, led by the Neighbourhood Food Project, "shifted to take the front seat in driving the day-to-day operations."
The East End Food Hub's stated mission has four parts: increase access to fresh local food, support emerging food businesses, teach food skills, and provide emergency food assistance. The City of Toronto supports the partnership.
This is the main thing to know about November. The farmers' market you shop at in Greenwood Park all summer is also one of the organizations running a food-security and food-business space on Gerrard all year. The indoor Sunday market is the part of that work most residents see.
What Happens There On The Other Six Days
The hub describes a commercial kitchen used for group cooking, a sanctuary that works as an event venue, a lower hall, and an outdoor area it calls the Hub Pad, used for pop-ups, CSA pickups and mini-markets. Its programs cover food-security support, food skills and cooking classes, and recreation and community activities.
The kitchen is where the market and the building connect most directly. In August 2025, Beach Metro Community News reported that Do Good Donuts produces in the hub's kitchen and sells at the Leslieville Farmers' Market. That's a vendor whose product starts on Gerrard and ends up on a Greenwood Park table. The same article covered the Magpie Cakery at 1125 Gerrard St. E., a commercial kitchen and incubator that supports bakers, which shows the stretch has more than one place for small food businesses to start.
The next event on the hub's calendar is East End Music Fest on Saturday, October 17, the day before the second-to-last Greenwood Park Sunday. Tickets are sold through the hub's site. If you've never been inside the building, that's a chance to see it before the market moves in.
Finding Your Vendors After The Move
This is the part of the move that trips up regulars. The market has taken its full-season vendor list offline. Its Greenwood Park page says the reason is to protect vendors "from AI tools collecting public information for vendor-targeted scams." The market's homepage also warns about fraudulent emails that pretend to come from the market, invite vendors to take part, or ask for fees. Official emails come only from addresses ending in @leslievillemarket.com or @neighbourhoodfoodproject.com.
For shoppers, that means the old habit of checking the full list no longer works. The market offers three options instead:
- A vendor map, updated weekly by around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
- An email form where you can ask whether a specific vendor is with the market this season and when they'll be there.
- A Saturday Instagram post on @lesliemarket called SUNDAY MARKET THINGS, which covers community programs, musicians and what's happening around the market.
According to the fall vendor application, selections for the indoor season were finished and approved vendors were emailed on October 2. The November roster hasn't been published. One vendor that has publicly listed the market at the East End Food Hub in its schedule is Lex's Pantry, for the 2026 spring indoor season. For anyone else, the Thursday map or the email form is how you find out.
Down Gerrard After You Shop
An indoor market on Gerrard ends somewhere different from a park market on Greenwood. blogTO lists Jupiter Bakehouse at 1505 Gerrard St. E., near Gerrard and Coxwell. It focuses on Canadian grains and French-style pastry and became a permanent location in late 2025. It's a short walk along Gerrard from the hub's address, so you can pick up a loaf there even if the market's bakers sell out before 2 p.m.
December Weekends Around The Market
Three other dates fall alongside the indoor season. The Leslieville and Riverside BIAs run Queen East Eats Fall Food Tours, each visiting six local food and drink businesses from 1 to 3 p.m. They're scheduled for Saturday, November 14, Saturday, December 5 and Saturday, December 12. Tickets are $10 plus fees.
The Leslieville Christmas Pop-Up Market has an opening party on Friday, December 4 from 6 to 10 p.m., then a free market on December 5 and 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with more than 70 vendors. Its page doesn't give a venue address yet. That makes December 5 and 6 a full weekend: a BIA food tour on Saturday afternoon, the pop-up market both days, and the farmers' market on Gerrard on Sunday morning.
Then come December 13 and December 20, the last two indoor Sundays before nine weeks without a market.
The Leslieville Farmers' Market started in 2011 in Jonathan Ashbridge Park with about a dozen vendors and moved to Greenwood Park in 2020. Its winter home is older than both. The church at 1470 Gerrard has stood since 1925, and the market's operator has been helping run food programs there since 2019.
Small details like where the market meets in November are a big part of how a neighborhood feels day to day, and I keep track of them on Leslieville's streets the same way I track the housing market. If you're weighing a move within the east end, or want to know what your home on a Sunday-market street might be worth, Derek Ladouceur can help. Book a showing or request a free home valuation.
