Every September, at the height of the Cabbagetown Festival, the festival organizers, the Cabbagetown BIA, sacrifice a cabbage to keep the Cabbage Gods smiling on the neighbourhood and bring good weather. Mark Michelin of St. James Town Steak and Chops has always been the “Purveyor of the One Cabbage.”

This April, the Cabbage Gods have been acting crankier than we’ve ever seen them, and the Forsythia Queens (aka Shawna Pereira and Carolyn Jarman from the Cabbagetown Residents Association) who organize the Forsythia Festival on Sunday May 6 are getting nervous. Mark, as a Festival Gold sponsor, has in the spirit of community service offered up a Brussels Sprout to appease and divert the wrath of the Cabbage Gods from their sisters the Forsythias.

The Act of Sprout was performed on Friday, April 20 by the hands of Mark himself. This better work … let’s bring on the spring weather!