Where the city comes to be fed — in every sense of the word.
1,900 sq ft on an active working farm at Downsview Park, Toronto. The doors open onto the fields. The food comes from this soil. Every event here is made meaningful by what grows outside.
The Barn at Zawadi Farm is a world-class event space inseparable from the working farm that surrounds it. We serve a city that finally knows the difference between food that travels and food that’s already here.
The revenue from every event, every gathering, every meal in this barn flows back into the working farm — funding the Growing Growers program, the pay-when-you-can CSA shares, our Not For Profit Zawadi Connections, and community partners. Commerce and care are one act.
The doors open onto the farm. That’s the first thing guests notice — the smell of it, the scale of it, the fact that it’s real. There is no other event space in Toronto where the venue and the land are in this kind of conversation.
The space:


