For most of the year, Evergreen Brick Works is a Saturday morning place. Between now and Christmas, its calendar keeps adding Sundays. Artisan and vintage markets, the second day of a weekend festival, a guided family walk in the valley and a four-week winter market all fall on Sundays. The Saturday Farmers Market keeps going but moves indoors. From Rosedale and Moore Park, the walk down through the ravine works on both weekend days now, and the Sunday list is the new part.
Saturday Keeps Its Hours and Changes Rooms
The Saturday Farmers Market started in 2007 with 25 local farmers and producers. Evergreen now calls it the largest year-round farmers market in Toronto. Hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Local Food Court stays open until 2 p.m. Every vendor comes from within 205 kilometres of the Brick Works.
The setting is what changes. Through October, the market runs outdoors under the Pavilions. In November it moves inside to the TD Future Cities Centre, where it stays through April. Evergreen hasn't published the date of the first indoor Saturday, so the end of the outdoor season is only firm as "the end of October." Evergreen also updates its market map weekly and warns that vendors sometimes cancel at the last minute.
Getting there on Saturdays also changes. Evergreen runs a free shuttle every day between Broadview Station and the Brick Works, every 30 to 45 minutes. The extra Saturday stops it has run since July 25 end on October 17. From Moore Park the ravine route stays the same. Evergreen's own directions still send visitors down the paved trail and stairs at Chorley Park to the Beltline, and send drivers in from Bayview Avenue by Pottery Road.
The Sundays, in Order
While Saturday moves indoors, Sunday picks up new events. This is the fall Sunday lineup as Evergreen lists it today:
| Date | What's on | Where and when |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, October 11 | Ontario Artisan Market and Ontario Vintage Market | Pavilions, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Sunday, October 18 | Ontario Artisan Market and Ontario Vintage Market | Pavilions, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Sunday, October 25 | Good Mourning Festival, Día de los Muertos day | Mercado and food court under the Pavilions |
| Sunday, November 1 | Ontario Artisan Market and Ontario Vintage Market | Pavilions, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Late November | Family Wander, a guided seasonal nature walk | The Valley |
| Sundays, November 29 to December 20 | Evergreen Winter Market | Artisan and vintage stalls, Winter Garden, food |
The first of those Sundays is October 11, when the Ontario Artisan and Vintage Markets run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., which suits a late start more than the Saturday market's 8 a.m. opening does. They return on October 18 and November 1.
The Family Wander has two different dates on Evergreen's site. The What's On listing says November 15. The event's own page says Sunday, November 22, 2026. Both dates are Sundays. Check the Family Wanders page before you put it in the calendar.
The Winter Market takes over the last four Sundays before Christmas. It adds public skating on December 13 and 20, weather permitting. In practice, that gives December its own Sunday walk down from Moore Park, with skating at the end of it on the two latest dates.
The Weekend That Uses Both Days
The Good Mourning Festival on October 24 and 25 is the clearest example of the two-day weekend, because it is built that way. Saturday is "Together in Grief." Sunday is a Día de los Muertos celebration. The Sunday program includes a Mercado and food court under the Pavilions. The main-stage schedule still read "TBD" when the festival page was last checked, so the performance lineup isn't set yet.
That Saturday is also one of the last outdoor market mornings of the year. One walk can cover the Pavilions market and the festival's first day, and a second walk on Sunday can cover the Mercado. The festival page is the place to watch for the final schedule.
What to Check on the Way Down
The Brick Works calendar is firm. A few things around it are not, and they mostly affect people who drive or take longer loops.
Governor's Road Bridge. The City has been rehabilitating the Governor's Road Bridge over Moore Park Ravine since August 2025, and the project end date is listed as Fall 2026. The full closure began July 6. The latest public update, dated July 30, extended that closure to late August after extra repairs and weather delays. The remaining work listed then was parapet wall refacing, railing connection repairs, and new asphalt, waterproofing and lighting. No newer notice confirms the bridge has reopened to cars. People on foot are covered either way, because the City committed to keeping at least one sidewalk open throughout construction, with signs directing pedestrians across. For drivers, the turn restrictions at Nesbitt Drive and Bayview Avenue were lifted during the full closure. They come back once the bridge reopens and stay in place after construction ends.
The Lower Don Trail. Longer loops south along the river face a separate closure. The Lower Don Trail from Corktown Common to E.T. Seton Park reopened on August 1, 2026, but the sloped path to the north side of the Riverdale Park Pedestrian Bridge is still closed. The City plans a temporary closure of the Lower Don Trail after the Thanksgiving long weekend to finish that connection. The closure concerns the Riverdale connection, not the Moore Park Ravine. The City's Lower Don Trail page posts the exact dates.
The Brick Works site itself. Evergreen is partway through a revitalization of about $16 million across five areas: the Ravine Centre and Indigenous Cultural Hub, the Welcome Centre, the TD Future Cities Centre, the Children's Garden, and Tiffany Commons and the outdoor areas. The target was to have the work largely finished by Summer 2026. The Welcome Centre plans include a new vestibule and Welcome Tower featuring "The Promise," a Corten steel and glass installation by Ojibwa artist Bonnie Devine. Tiffany Commons is set to get new seating, shade sails, lighting and wayfinding. UrbanToronto reported in March that the Children's Garden was finished in 2025. No announcement since then confirms which of the other areas have opened, so some parts of the site may still be under construction this fall.
The TD Future Cities Centre on that list is the same building the Saturday market moves into in November. Its planned upgrades include structural reinforcement, accessibility improvements and rooftop solar panels.
The site has changed before. Its factory made the bricks for Casa Loma and City Hall, and it reopened as an environmental community centre in 2012. Through December 20, its fall calendar runs on Saturdays indoors and on Sundays in the Pavilions and the valley.
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