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NWFM RETURNS with our Fifth Annual Holiday Market! – SATURDAY CANCELLED, SUNDAY STILL ON!

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The New Westminster Farmers Market returns December 15th for our 5th Annual Holiday Market! Featuring 80+ vendors, live music, food trucks, and a kids booth, this outdoor market is the New Westminster Farmers Market final event of 2024. 

 

Join us on December 5th in front of New West City Hall for an outdoor market featuring over 80 local artisan and food vendors, as well as food trucks, live music, and entertainment. Visit the Sprout Club tent for free kids crafts and activities all weekend long!

Rain or shine – this market will be a chance to shop from all your favourite local & small businesses this Holiday season.  Whether you’re looking for last minute gifts, artisan-made sweet treats, or fresh ingredients for your Holiday Dinner – we have it all! 

This is a family-friendly, dog-friendly, accessible event.  

 

Find all vendors attending the Holiday Market below:

Alcohol:
Festina Lente Estate Winery
Left Field Cider Co.
Maan Farms
Middle Mountain Mead
Northyards Cider Co.
Raincity Distillery
Shuswap Cider Company
Snowgoose Brewery Inc.
Steel & Oak

Bakeries:
A Bread Affair
Annie Bannanies
BAK’D Cookies
Bar Down Cookies
Boule Carre Bakery
Bussin Buns
Kayla’s Sourdough
Mamma Pina’s Gluten Free Flour
Merry Go Round
Vanessa’s Cookie Boutique

Beverages:
Farming Karma
Gingeraki
Leilani Fine Tea
Mukasi Coffee Roasters

Candles:
Candle Corner
DinArt Candles
Ollie & Co.

Community Groups:
BC Cancer
Disability Alliance BC
Motion & Music Performing Arts Academy (Sunday Only)

Confectioners:
Chickadee Chocolate
Drunken Chocolatier
EMKAO Foods
Gary’s Kettle Corn
Pimon – Kamon

Food Trucks:
Burgerholic
Dos Amigos
Little Miss Coffee
Stackers
Tokyo Katsu-Sand
Veg Out (Sat only)

Beavertails (Sun only)

Jewelry:
Black Cat Jewelry Works
Cleo’s Origami
First Stone
Neet Arts Co.

Homewares:
Artfully Yours
BC Wild Wreaths
MeNom
Mechanics of Music
Serenity Living

Honey:
Golden Meadows Honey Farm

Hot and Ready Foods:
Authentic Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Ember Hong Kong Barbeque
Hibiscus Foods
Holy Duck Chili Oil
Pretty Bird Kitchen
Sabor-a-Yucatan

Meat and Seafood:
Bucking Bull Jerky
Outwest Ranches

Pet Products:
Freeloaders Pet Goods

Preserves, Condiments, Spices:
BobAli
Masala Factory
R.Miller Designs

Prepared Foods:
Besee Crunch
Mamma Musey Pierogi
Market 49 fine foods
One More Bite Granola
Toffee Pop

Produce Farms:
BC Small Farmers Collective
Mandair Farms
Whistler’s Harvest

Soap, Spa & Beauty:
Bayu Wellness
Olive’s Home & Garden
Shine Bright By J&J
Simon’s Soapbox
Skunk Bath and Soap

Textiles:
Caramia and Mama’s Infinite Side Questing Creations
Cursive and Prints
Woolwerx Fibre Arts Studio
Yarn of Life

 

 

Event Details: 

Where: Directly in front of New Westminster City Hall (6th Street + Royal Ave)
Date: Saturday, December 14th & Sunday, December 15th, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: By donation! We recommend a minimum of $5.00 – to be split between us and the BCAFM Nutrition Coupon Program.

No RSVP needed of course, but if you want a reminder: RSVP HERE.

 

Events Calendar – August

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August Events

Sprout Club
July 4th  –  Aug 29th  –  Tipperary Park (next to the Info Booth!)
 

Sprout Club is back at the New West Farmers’ Market all summer long! Join us on Thursdays from July 4 to August 29, between 3-7pm, for engaging activities focused on the environment, sustainability, and agriculture. The Sprout Club activity tent can be found beside our information booth.

And don’t forget to grab your Sprout Club Passport! By participating in Sprout Club weekly and collecting stamps on your Passport, each stamp you earn will give you another entry into our end-of-summer prize draw!

COST: FREE
No sign up is required. 
 

August 15th – Pie For Pride

5:30pm – 6:30pm – Tipperary Park (at the market!)

The beloved annual community pie baking competition is back at the New West Farmers Market with a panel of local judges who will determine New West’s Best Pie of 2024. We’re celebrating our diverse community, the best way we know how: delicious food! Stop by the market to discover this year’s Best Pie, and grab a slice by donation to New West Pride.

 

August 22nd – Yoga in the Park

 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

In collaboration with Yoga at the Quay, we’re bringing back Yoga in the Park! This free event is going to be hosted at our usual spot at Tipperary Park on August 22nd from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and is all ages. Just make sure to bring a mat, and come in comfy clothes!

COST: FREE

**Register for this event HERE.
 
August 29th – Back to School Bash!
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 
School is almost in session, so let’s have one last summer hurrah! Join us for a photobooth, balloon twisting by twist parties, face painting, a kid-focused clothing swap – and more! We hope to see you there!
We look forward to having Magik Moments attending our market, capturing memories for you and your family from 3:30-6:30pm!

Events Calendar – July

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July Events

 

Sprout Club
July 4th  –  Aug 29th  –  Tipperary Park (next to the Info Booth!)
 

Sprout Club is back at the New West Farmers’ Market all summer long! Join us on Thursdays from July 4 to August 29, between 3-7pm, for engaging activities focused on the environment, sustainability, and agriculture. The Sprout Club activity tent can be found beside our information booth.

And don’t forget to grab your Sprout Club Passport! By participating in Sprout Club weekly and collecting stamps on your Passport, each stamp you earn will give you another entry into our end-of-summer prize draw!

COST: FREE
No sign up is required. 
 
Naloxone Training
July 4th  –  5pm – 7pm  –  Tipperary Park (at the market!)
 
 

FREE Naloxone Training offered by the Purpose Society!

Join us Thursday, July 4 from 5pm-7pm at the market to learn how to save a life. Naloxone is an important drug that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools you need to help someone in a crisis.
Please bring your own chair or blanket. This training will be approximately two hours in length and a free naloxone kit will be provided.  

COST: FREE
No sign up is required. 
 

Yoga in the Park

July 18th – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

In collaboration with Yoga at the Quay, we’re bringing back Yoga in the Park! This free event is going to be hosted at our usual spot at Tipperary Park on June 20th from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and is all ages. Just make sure to bring a mat, and come in comfy clothes!

COST: FREE

**Register for this event HERE.
Indigenous Edible Plant Workshop
July 25th – 5:00 – 7:00 pm
 
Do you want to learn more about local wildlife? Want to know more about the tasty and nutritious Indigenous edible plants that grow in our neighborhoods? Well, we have a workshop for you!
 
We have rescheduled our Indigenous Edible Plant workshop with Metis expert Lori Snyder for Thursday, July 25 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Tipperary park. Registration is required and you can purchase tickets at the link below. In this workshop, each participate will have the chance to learn the identification techniques of the different indigenous plants within BC that are edible. If you’re someone who wants to learn more about foraging, or appreciating the flora of BC, this workshop is a great place to start!
 
We’ll see you on July 25th! 😉

COST: $22

**Register for this event HERE.
 

Clay Earring Workshop

July 30th – 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Queensborough Community Centre

Have a specific idea for funky earrings, but not quite sure where to start? Miss the good ol’ days when playing with play-doh was your top priority? Want to flex your creativity and have something cute to show for it? Look no further! NWFM Vendor Neet Arts Co will guide participants through the art of crafting clay earrings as unique and creative as you! Attendees will create and take home two pairs of earrings of their own creation (valued at $50-70!) This event will be hosted at the Queensborough Community Centre on July 30th.

COST: $35

**Register for this event HERE.

 

2024 Pie for Pride!

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Join New West Farmers Market on August 15th at 5:30pm for Pie for Pride!

This beloved community pie baking competition is back with a panel of local (and international) judges who will determine New West’s Best Pie of 2024.

This year’s lineup includes:

  • Philip Fitzpatrick – International Icon and Honorary New Bestie, once lost (The Price is Right), now found (in New West) #PhilipInNewWest and lover of a Louisville Derby Pie,
  • Mayor Patrick Johnstone – Lover of New West and community events that require him to eat pie,
  •  Mike Balser – Acclaimed Winner of the Best Pie in 2023’s Pie for Pride with his infamous Whoo-Berry Pie,
  • Jon Jennings – NWFM Board Member and lover of strawberry-rhubarb, qualifications include being a former vendor of another round baked-good (bagels) and gently imploring his wife to contribute to this competition every year,
  • Madeleine Gwynne – New West Pride VP who’s got her eye on the pies!

Think your favourite pie recipe has what it takes to compete for the title? Enter your pie and review the rules here.

Prefer to be a spectator for this sport? Swing by NWFM on August 15th to watch pies being judged (starting at 5:30pm) and then grab a slice (or a few slices!) by donation to New West Pride. This competition is fierce!

Come by and eat pie! Only on August 15th at the New West Farmers Market in Tipperary Park next to New West City Hall.

 

Black Lives Matter Statement

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During this difficult and painful time, we at the New West Farmers Market want to reach out to the community.

To those who are suffering: we see you. We hear you. We share your frustration. We share your pain. We do not support discrimination in any form, and we feel that with all that has been going on, we want to make sure our stance on this is clear: black lives matter. This is not a controversial statement to us. 
 
The New West Farmers Market is community based, and our community is a diverse one. The world needs to change, and that change starts with us.

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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.