East Toronto's neighbourhood farmers market in the heart of Leslieville — Sunday mornings bring 40+ vendors with Ontario produce, artisan goods, fresh flowers, and prepared food to Greenwood Park. The surrounding brunch spots make it an easy full morning.
Neighbourhood: Leslieville · Address: Greenwood Ave & Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON · Hours: May–Oct | Sundays 9am–1pm
Why Visit
You can browse fresh Ontario produce and prepared food, then grab coffee and picnic in Greenwood Park—all before noon. It’s one of the few farmer’s markets that turns grocery shopping into a genuinely pleasant Sunday plan.
What Makes It Unique
Unlike many downtown markets, Leslieville’s is laid-back, family-oriented, and actually has green space to hang out in. The focus on small-batch vendors gives it more of a hyper-local, east end vibe—less crowded, more relaxed, and fewer tourists than St. Lawrence or Evergreen Brick Works.
Leslieville Farmers Market feels like the kind of Sunday plan that makes East Toronto very easy to love. From May through October, Greenwood Park fills up with more than 40 vendors, and by 9 in the morning there’s already a steady stream of locals walking over with tote bags, coffee in hand, kids in strollers, and dogs angling for dropped pastry crumbs. It’s not huge in an overwhelming way, which is part of the appeal. You can do a full lap, figure out what looks best that day, and then go back for the things you actually want instead of panic-buying at the first stand.
The mix is solid: Ontario produce in peak-season rotation, fresh flowers, baked goods, preserves, honey, and plenty of prepared food if you’re hungry right away. Depending on the week, you’ll find baskets of tomatoes, greens, herbs, peaches, apples later in the season, plus the kind of small-batch pantry stuff that’s dangerously easy to justify on a Sunday morning. It’s a very Leslieville crowd, but not in an annoying way. People are chatty, vendors will usually tell you what’s best that week, and there’s enough movement that it never feels static. You’re not just shopping; you’re drifting, sampling, deciding whether you need flowers, and probably buying them anyway.
What makes this market especially worth the trip is the setting in Greenwood Park and the fact that the whole neighbourhood is set up for you to turn it into a full morning. You can wander the stalls, grab something hot to eat, then head out for brunch nearby without needing to think too hard about logistics. That’s really the move here. Leslieville does weekend brunch well, and the cafés and restaurants around Gerrard and Queen make it easy to stretch your market visit into a lazy Sunday. If you’re visiting Toronto and want to see how locals actually spend a weekend morning, this is a very accurate snapshot.
A couple practical things: go earlier if you want the best produce and a calmer browse. By late morning it gets busier, especially on sunny days. If you’re serious about shopping, bring a tote bag or two because you’ll almost definitely leave with more than you planned. Cash can be handy, though many vendors take cards now. The market is free to wander, and it’s easy to reach by transit via the Gerrard and Greenwood streetcar area, so you don’t need a car unless you’re planning to haul home an absurd amount of vegetables.
This isn’t a flashy market, and that’s exactly why it works. It feels local, useful, and genuinely part of the neighbourhood rather than a staged attraction. You come for produce, snacks, and maybe a bouquet, but the real reason to return is how effortlessly it fits into a Leslieville Sunday: market first, brunch after, and the rest of the day can take its time.