Join us for summer fun at our first Summer Market! Find us in Tipperary Park from 11-3 on May 23rd!
Is It Spring Yet?
Do you have the winter blues? Warm up with some garden planning!
Carol Forsythe from GardenWorks at Mandeville joins us at the market on February 16th and March 2nd from 11-3 at our community booth. Ask Carol all your questions to get your garden and yard ready for spring! She can help with everything from balcony gardens to community gardens, lawns to produce. Come say hi with your whole family! Kids can join us to do some gardening themselves, and bring home a potted plant for free!
See you at the market.
You’re Invited: New West Farmer’s Market AGM!
Please consider this official notice of our AGM:
Sunday, February 10th, 1pm-3pm
625 5th Avenue, Suite 701
New Westminster, BC
The New West Farmers Market Annual General Meeting is Sunday, February 10th from 1pm to 3pm at the office space of Billard Architecture at 625 5th Avenue, Suite 701 in New Westminster. Please arrive by 1pm as access to the building is limited on the weekend and someone will be posted at the door until 1pm sharp to let you in.
The meeting will take place in the office space of Billard Architecture. The location is semi accessible and has elevators and an accessible washroom on the main floor. Pay parking is available on site and is conveniently located close to several public transit bus routes.
The meeting agenda will be primarily comprised of an update on this year’s activities, goals for the coming year and our financial performance in 2018. It has been a year of personnel changes for the New West Farmers Market and our AGM provides an opportunity to review these changes with members.
If you need any directions to the AGM, please reach out to us at info@newwestfarmers.ca.
What to expect at our AGM this year:
Reports on Our 2018 Year: You will hear reports from two people: Lily, our Market Manager on some of the highlights of the market this year, and Carly, the President, on some of the work we completed in 2018, and some of our plans currently underway.
Elect or Acclaim a Revised Board: Some of the most basic business of an AGM is to elect a new board. We do not take nominations from the floor, and haven’t for a few years. We are losing one of our directors this year due to some personal life events and hope to have a few new faces willing to step forward. Nominations close on Saturday, February 3rd.
To vote you must be a member in good standing. If you need to renew or get a new membership, you can do so at the door for $10.
After the business portion there will be treats and socializing.
The excitement is growing. It’s going to be a good one. We hope you can join us on February 10th.
We’re Hiring for a Market Assistant!
Do you love the Farmers’ Market? Do you love the New West community? We’d LOVE to meet you!
We are hiring for a part time Market Assistant. For more information please see this job posting here:
Fare Finds at the Market | Week 2
The gods of Olympus feasted on ambrosia, a name now bestowed on a different fruit. But I’d wager that taking a bite of a fresh strawberry would make even Greek deities weak in the knees.
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For me, strawberries always mark the true start of summer. I can easily gorge myself on an entire pint when they first appear in local markets. Their flavour is like none other; the watery imitators that appear like a deep blush across supermarket shelves in the winter boast size but lack tang. Nothing compares to the sun-ripened sweetness those scarlet beauties hold.
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The cover the 60th issue of Edible magazine intrigued me; an excuse to buy more strawberries and eat cake? Sounds perfect. Despite the lovely article & photos, the recipe which accompanied them did not match the cover. With the mention of an 8” by 8” pan, I knew I had my work cut out for me.
Though, I didn’t re-create the exact cake from the cover, I did discover one that it as simple and satisfying as the berries that decorate it.
Vanilla Cake & Strawberries
For this post, I used the recipe from thespruceeats.com for Fluffy Homemade Vanilla Cake.
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter (softened and divided into 2-tablespoon pieces)
- I ended up using margarine as I did not have room-temperature butter on hand, and my attempt to microwave a bar ended up more a half-frozen-melted-blog. Butter will add more richness to the cake, but margarine works in a pinch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup 2 percent milk
- I used 1% milk and the cake turned out just fine
- 2 large, room-temperature eggs (Rockweld Farm Ltd) – $6.25 a dozen
- 1 small box of strawberries* (Mandair Farms) – $5
- *Any other seasonal fruit will do; take advantage of what your market has to offer! Blueberries are just starting to appear, and will pop equally well atop this cake
- 250mL whipping cream
I won’t go to into the details of the cake prep as: a) The Spruce Eats writes the recipe in an easy-to-follow manner, avoiding any specific baking jargon while including useful tips, and b) because I baked this recipe in the early morning during June’s heatwave, and I forgot to take step-by-step photos.
One thing I will note is that my adjustments to the recipe (as noted in italics in the ingredients list) had no adverse affects on the cakes. I also opted to line my baking pans with butter & parchment paper, rather than the butter & flour combine recommended by the website.
Once baked, I allowed the cakes to cool on the counter.
You may be asking why the final cake was only one layer, when I clearly baked two. The other one was tested at my office, where my coworkers proved willing guinea pigs who were happy to taste-test the cake. I served it with whipping cream & strawberries as well, minus the decorative presentation.
After being decisively gobbled-up, I presented the final cake to friends at a weekend BBQ. For the topping, I just used whipping cream (whipped by hand as I’d foolishly left my hand mixer at home, adding granulated sugar to taste). I spread a thin layer on top to act as icing and placed sliced roundels of strawberry as decoration, leaving the leftover whipped cream and berries to be added as desired.
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