Stock up on Ontario-grown garlic for winter. Bite into sizzling garlic dishes, indulge in garlic desserts, sip garlic-kissed cocktails, mocktails and craft beer, discover black garlic desserts, and toss back a free garlic shot. Explore stalls with garlic jellies, sauces, preserves, ferments and garlic-inspired handmade treasures. Settle in for Culture Talks and groove to live music — from country/folk to Oscar Peterson inspired . Cheer on the Garlic Bulb Cracking Contest, laugh through the Vampire Costume Contest, cheat in the Garlic Breath Contest, and leave with a rhyme by the Garlic Poet Laureate, written just for you. Toronto Garlic Festival is Presented by Dupont By the Castle BIA.
FREE ADMISSION • ONE DAY ONLY • RAIN OR SHINE • GARLIC IS ONTARIO-GROWN • 10,000 VISITORS
Visitors can expect witty, garlic-inspired wordplay from Poet Laureate Haley Sarfeld, with pungent puns, tangy tongue-twisters, and on-the-spot riffs. Each guest will leave with a personalized, handwritten (cursive!) poem — a fragrant keepsake from the Toronto Garlic Festival.
BIO: Haley Sarfeld (she/they) is a writer, performer, poet, composer-lyricist, and all-around allium enthusiast living in Katarokwi/Kingston. Haley writes everything from crossword puzzles to theatre reviews to musicals about mythical serpents and neighbourhood cats, and she enjoys on-the-spot riffing with pungent puns and tangy tongue-twisters. In 2024, Haley was the recipient of a Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism (Outstanding Emerging Critic), and she is honoured to be this year’s Garlic Poet Laureate at the Toronto Garlic Festival. Her favourite early summer snack is garlic scape pesto.
Photo credit: Donovan Perra (@donovan.perra)
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