This year we plan to have another Holiday Urn and Workshop with the addition of wreaths on November 29 from 10:00-1:00. The Youth have made eco print cards and plan to make more Tallow & Honey Face Cream for their table. Some soup and snacks will also be available by donation. The Quaker Calm Tea is now ready for sale.
Make-Your-Own Holiday Decoration (an outdoor urn, wreath or tabletop centerpiece)
Please join us on Saturday November 29, 2025 between 10:00am and 1:00pm for this once-a-year Quaker event.
Ticket price includes materials (fresh greenery, ornamental botanicals such as dried hydrangeas and holly, beautiful ribbon for a bow), an urn, wire wreath frame, or vintage mason jar, and folks with experience ready to assist – everything you need to make your own beautiful decoration to take home.
This year, there are three different options for your creation;
– Decorative urn; single black urn for front porch or yard decorating $45
– Wire wreath frame; 12” round wire wreath frame $35
– Vintage Mason jar with lid for use as tabletop holiday décor $20
You can attend this event at your convenience, anytime between 10am and 1pm, allowing at least 30 minutes to complete your urn. More than one person can work on a single item if you prefer (in case you’d like to bring children etc.).
There will be home-made refreshments from @killdeerfood available for a donation and youth will be selling crafts to raise money for their support of service projects.
100% of the proceeds from this event will support service programs including projects for at-risk youth and other community initiatives.
We hope to see you at our cheerful and cozy event.
Tickets available on @eventbrite and www.spartaquakers.ca
Quaker Calm Tea
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The 2025 Quaker Calm Tea is ready for brewing! (As always, we sampled and it is delicious)
Every year a selection of the seasons’ most delicious herbs, all locally grown and dried, are blended for this mellow and flavourful tea.
Bags of loose tea are $10 each (we have a few larger bags for $20) and 100% of the proceeds from this tea will support community service programs including projects for at-risk youth and other initiatives.
New for 2025 is a limited supply of tea packaged in vintage Mason jars for an additional $2 (perfect for gift-giving).
The tea will be available for purchase at Bonjourandyum, Horton Farmers Market (thanks Serge!). You can also email Martha at kmlaing@orchardhillfarm.ca or Neil at neilhubert137@gmail.com
The tea will also be sale at the Quaker Holiday Urn making event on November 29 (more info to follow)
2025 ingredients include: Apple and Mojito Mint, Spearmint, Lemon Balm, Peppermint, Calendula and Cornflower Blossoms, Chamomile Blossoms, Raspberry Leaves, Blackberry Leaves, Rose Petals, Sweet Cicely, Mullein, and Clover Blossoms.
Quaker Meeting House, 6387 Quaker Road, Sparta ON
With your help we look forward to supporting various service projects in 2025. As a result of our fundraising in 2024 we were able to support:
- Harvest Hands St. Thomas
- Queer Teen Social Group in St. Thomas
- Canadian Friends Service Committee
- Movie Nights at the Meetinghouse for Documentary Films for the Public
- Animal Shelter in St. Thomas
- St. Thomas Food Bank
We also work with the YWCA and other local service providers, to support youth aged 16 to 24 living independently.
Our wish is to provide these youth with some basic supports, coupled with an awareness that they are a part of a community that wants them to survive and thrive. Our main initiative is providing heart-felt and homemade holiday gifts.
“Deep within us all there is an amazing sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home to Itself“ A Testament of Devotion, a Quaker classic by Thomas R. Kelly (1893 – 1941)