Foodie Friday: The Pastry Peddler Incorporating Bicycles and Going From the Farmer's Market to a Bakery and Café

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We talk with co-owners Deanna Bell and Colin Hall of the Pastry Peddler about starting from the Farmer's Market into a Millbrook café, being a cyclist hotspot and how bicycles became the icon for the bakery.

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Local Artist Turns Creativity Into a Fundraiser for Millbrook Food Share

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Millbrook local Tracy Campbell is putting her creative juices to work for good by selling art prints to raise funds for the Millbrook Food Share.

Produce grown at the community garden in Millbrook. Photo courtesy of Tracy Campbell.

Produce grown at the community garden in Millbrook. Photo courtesy of Tracy Campbell.

Campbell, originally from Nova Scotia, moved to Millbrook from Bowmanville with her family about three months ago.

“I was looking for some way to get connected, some way to get involved - kind of looking for that social outlet that’s been missing over the last couple years,” said Campbell.

She saw an ad in the newspaper calling for plot holders and volunteers at the community garden.

Plot holders at the garden pay a small fee to ‘own’ a part of it where they can grow their own flowers or produce.

The center of the garden is filled with flowers grown by the local garden club and the rest is maintained by volunteers who grow produce for the Millbrook Food Share, a member agency of Kawartha Food Share.

Campbell, who took up digital art in December as a way to give Christmas gifts to her family, began to take pictures of flowers at the community garden and transform it into digital art.

She is now selling a limited number of prints for $20 and donating the profit to the Food Share. She has nine copies left and will be selling them until August 1.

One print being sold by Campbell. Inspired by the flowers at the community garden. Photo courtesy of Tracy Campbell.

One print being sold by Campbell. Inspired by the flowers at the community garden. Photo courtesy of Tracy Campbell.

Prints are 8.5 x 11 and can be bought by messaging Campbell on Instagram @trayseelynne or @tracycampbellcreations.

Campbell will deliver the prints to anyone local to Milbrook, the Durham Region or Peterborough.

“I would love for this to be a repeat fundraiser,” said Campbell.

She says that she hopes to be able to create more pieces of art inspired by things in her community and share the money with other local organizations.

The Millbrook Food Share is open on the second, third and fourth Tuesday of every month.

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