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3rd Annual Holiday Market

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We’ve missed you since our regular season ended but we’ve been hard at work planning for our 3rd Annual Holiday Market!!! 

We’re excited to bring you over 90 local vendors this year including many of your usual favourites as well as a bunch of new faces! 

We’ll have 8 great food trucks for you, live music, a special performance by the Music Box, and our Sprout Club tent will have crafts and activities for kids. This market is pet friendly so bring your fur babies along too (on a leash please) 

Rain, snow, or shine- this market will be an excellent chance to shop local this Holiday season.  Whether you’re shopping for last minute gifts or looking for fresh ingredients for your Holiday Dinner, we have it all!

We will be outside New West City Hall December 10+11, from 10am-4pm
Entrance is by a recommended $5 minimum donation to be split with the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

 

Can’t wait to see you there!!! 

 

 

Silent Auction!

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Don’t miss our upcoming silent auction taking place this weekend October 1st and 2nd. 

This is our annual silent auction to raise money for our free kids program, SPROUT CLUB! This popular program wouldn’t be possible without the help of community members like you. THANK YOU!

Bid on 10 amazing prize packs full of items from local businesses and some of your favourite market vendors. 
Bidding goes live Saturday at 9am and will close Sunday at 8pm.

You can preview the auction here https://www.32auctions.com/nwfmsprout2022 or check out our social media to get a sneak peek of all the amazing goods to be won! 

 

 

Vendor Spotlight: Golden Meadows Honey Farm

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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT

Keep an eye out for our Vendor Spotlight feature where we bring you short interviews with our amazing vendors!

This Week: Golden Meadows Honey Farm

Find them online here and on Instagram here.

Photo of Christian and Xander with some of the 200 hives of bees in their family apiary in Pitt Meadows.

How did your business start?

Years ago, local family owned and operated business Golden Meadows Honey Farm owners, Lidia and Christian were bedazzled by the idea of a combined store that supplies the community with both honey & artisanal gifts as well as beekeeping supplies.

Christian’s ‘getter done’ attitude turned his interest in beekeeping into a complete bee operation, running the business’s mid-sized apiary focusing on pollination and speciality honey production.

Our storefront as well the opportunities to attend farmers markets allows Lidia to pursue her dreams of developing connections within the community to learn and to share our knowledge with others. Reflecting back, Lidia is awed by how much she has learned about bees’ significance to the environment, society and economy, and ways to learn from and support the bees. “I believe we have everything we need here within our community.”

The two combined their passions into a beautiful business!

 
What is your favourite product and why?
 
Every summer, when fireweeds are in bloom, we bring our bees to the backcountry of BC to collect precious nectar from the little pink-purple flowers that adorn the fireweed plant. This is where our most prized Fireweed Honey comes from! They’re considered to be the “Champagne of Honey” as fireweed honey is renowned for its fine, remarkable flavour and medicinal properties. Not only do they take longer to crystallize, they are also wild, which makes them equal to, if not better then organic!

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Thanks, Golden Meadows! We appreciate you joining us this season! 

Find them this week at the market, September 22nd, from 3-7pm in Tipperary Park.

Vendor Spotlight: What’soup

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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT

Keep an eye out for our Vendor Spotlight feature where we bring you short interviews with our amazing vendors!

This Week: What’soup

Find them online here and on Instagram here.

Photo of Bella, owner of What’soup!

How did your business start?

What’Soup started when I was on my maternity leave and had the need to have nutritious and quick meals on hand. Being a chef, I started putting recipes together and thought that frozen “ready to eat” soups would make a great quick, easy and nourishing meals and that’s how the business was born.

 
What is one piece of advice you would give to someone considering starting their own small business?
 
Be Brave and don’t give up! The struggles are real and they can hit you hard sometimes but so is the local community. So, talk to people, share your fears and hear from the ones that are doing it longer than you and learn from them. Investing in your dream is not always easy but once you do and believe in it there is nothing better or more satisfying.

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Thanks, Bella! We appreciate you joining us this season! 

Find What’soup this week at the market, September 22nd, from 3-7pm in Tipperary Park.

Vendor Spotlight: Abundant Acre Family Farm

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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT

Keep an eye out for our Vendor Spotlight feature where we bring you short interviews with our amazing vendors!

This Week: Abundant Acre Family Farm

Find them online here and on Instagram here.

Photo of Cara, farmer and co-owner, in the field

What’s your favourite product and why?

Tomatoes! Our family doesn’t eat tomatoes out-of-season, so when these sweet beauties are around we really savour them. Greek salad, tomato sandwich lunches and just mowing down a couple yellow romas for a snack. A huge priority for us is the flavour of our vegetables, and we feel like we have the varieties of tomatoes that we grow pretty dialed-in, as we are in our 14th season of growing. I, Cara, first found out what a tomato could taste like when I was getting to know Andy (my husband). His Dad grew some tasty big beef tomatoes in his big backyard garden. Over the years we’ve paid close attention to which varieties not only grow well in our climate (soil-grown in our unheated greenhouse) but to those who have a depth of flavour.

 
What is your favourite part about selling at farmers markets?
 
The people! Not only do we need food to survive, we need relationships. I love hearing about what you’re making with our vegetables, how satisfied you are to do your shopping at the market or a little bit about what you’re up to. I am honoured to share a small part of your day and hope our vegetables help bring physical nourishment to you, in the joys and struggles of life.

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Thanks, Cara! We appreciate you joining us this season! 

Find Abundant Acre Family Farm this week at the market, September 15th, from 3-7pm in Tipperary Park.

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Our market is grateful to operate on the unceded land of the Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem, and other Halkomelem speaking Peoples. We acknowledge that colonialism has made invisible their histories and connections to the land. We acknowledge the incredible gift this land is to our market and BC Agriculture. We commit to the ongoing work of decolonization and allyship.