DurhamVeg’s signature event, Oshawa’s HotRoots Soups Festival, asks restaurants to use root vegetables to make Afro-Caribbean-inspired soups for one week during Black History Month. The all-veg soups are available during the lunch hour at several downtown restaurants, and also at special soup stations set-up at City Hall, Michael Starr Building and Simcoe Mall. Oshawa’s BIA has supported this event, sponsored by DurhamVeg, from its beginning in 2013. In 2017 HotRoots Launch will be Feb 17th at Core 21 and Soup Stations will run from February 21st to February 24th.