If you are able, we encourage you to Pay What You Can for veggies to help more people access them for free. HOW TO (pay-what-you-can): We will have payment instructions and accept cash in person at the farmers market and volunteering sessions. If you pick up food from a community fridge, you can etransfer what you can to csa@cultivaction.ca. Twenty percent of all payments for food will be donated directly to Indigenous land stewardship efforts.
Pay-What-You-Can Farmers Market
Concordia Farmers’ Market
Meet us at our weekly farmers market this season to access all of our veggies, mushrooms, medicinal herbs, and more. All the vegetables are pay what you can, but you need to be a member Co-op CultivAction to use the market. You can sign up to be a member at the market or here (link to our membership page). Check our Instagram and Facebook for weekly updates on what we have available. SCHEDULE: Loyola Campus: On Sherbrooke St at the Shuttle Bus stop. Every Tuesday from 3-6pm (June 25-August 28) Downtown Campus: On de Maisonneuve, outside the Webster Library. Every Wednesday from 3-6pm (September 4-Oct 30)
Les Petits Marchés de Lachine is a sliding-scale farmers market that aims to provide local, sustainable, healthy food to the Lachine community. We work closely with them and the Duff Ct. Urban Farm in Lachine.
You can also check out our food at Les Petits Marches
Volunteer with us at our Loyola or Senneville locations and take home veggies at the end of the session. Volunteering times and details are here
Fresh-Picked produce during volunteer sessions
You are also welcome to drop by any of our volunteering sessions and ask for pay what you can fresh-picked produce. Just come by the farm and ask to speak to one of the worker members. Times for volunteering sessions when you can get produce are here
Community Fridges
Café 92
Café 92 Community Fridge in NDG Location: 6703 Sherbrooke St W
CSU Community Fridge
Location: Hall Building 7th floor Art Nook
Other organizations that distribute the food we grow
Le Frigo Vert
Le Frigo Vert is an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-oppression , food, alternative health, and community space located near Concordia University’s downtown Montreal campus.
You can find CultivAction produce in the Le Frigo Vert’s fridges all year-round.
They are closed until the beginning of the semester in September
The Hive Cafe is a fellow Solidarity Cooperative with the mission of being a model food system at Concordia that provides food through sustainable practices and empowers the student community.
The greens we grow are included in their sandwiches, salads and sauces.
They are closed until the beginning of the semester in September
The Hive Free Lunch & Breakfast provides an essential service to students, faculty and staff at Loyola campus, which is a food desert with very few dining or grocery options. The HFL also provides a unique opportunity to foster a sense of community around food, and everyone works hard in creating a safer space to share and learn cooking skills together. The HFL aims to provide quality, nutritious food while considering the social and environmental impact of the food we consume.
CultivAction is the HFL’s most local supplier (the food travels about 100m from our farm).
They are closed until the beginning of the semester in September
On Our Own (O3) is a Montreal-based non-profit located in the Notre-Dame de Grace neighborhood that supports young, vulnerable parents and their children. In addition to housing, our individualized, culturally safe programs and services promote opportunities for growth and well-being. Our areas of focus include parenting, financial literacy, education and career, mental health, healthy relationships, and healthy living.
Head & Hands is an NDG-based organization that strives to promote the physical and mental well-being of youth. Our approach is preventative, inclusive, non-judgmental, and holistic, with a fundamental commitment to providing a supportive environment for youth experiencing marginalization(s). We seek to empower youth, and to facilitate social change based on the needs of youth within our community and society at large.
Community Cooks Collective (CCC) hosts a weekly event series organizing the cooking, collection, and delivery of bulk home-cooked meals to local shelters supporting people in Tiotià:ke / Montreal experiencing food insecurity. We celebrate community power by positioning communal cooking as an act of resistance against intersecting systems of oppression.
The Depot Community Food Centre, formerly the NDG Food Depot, is a community-based non-profit organization founded in 1986 that works collaboratively with other community partners to address issues of food security in NDG and the surrounding areas.
Women on the Rise is a nonprofit organization based in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) that offers programs and services to women and their families. We meet moms where they’re at, offering non-judgmental, empowerment-based individual support, group support, and resources.