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Growing Your Own Food New West Style

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Local market shopper Elise Weatherby dropped us a note today about our market:

Way better selection of produce vendors; better, fresher, and organic produce and more hard to find stuff ie: pea shoots and gooseberries! This is the type of stuff farm markets are famous for!  It’s so fantastic to have a good local fresh food source so close to home!  I do grow a small garden myself so I want to add that I am extremely picky about purchasing produce, and the quality at RCFM is pretty much as good as it gets (outside of growing my own).

Thanks Elise! We really appreciate you taking the time to email us and let us know.

You can check out Elise’s review of RCFM on her new blog– which is all about growing your own food. We agree that growing your own is the very best way to eat – but not everyone can grow their own because it takes a lot of time and effort and at the very least, a patio! Next best thing is a farmers market, where you can get to know your farmer and enjoy fresh picked goods.

Fan Movie!

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Check out this awesome video about our market filmed and edited by local Laura Cuthbert. Our thanks to Laura for granting us permission to link to it.  Some of you may recognize Laura as one of the Olympic torch bearers in our fair city. We’d like to think she’s carrying the torch for our market now. We also think she’s a member of Team Eggplant.

Got Fundraiser?

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What better way to kick off our 2010 Summer Season than with a lovely social fundraiser at the Heritage Grill?

The Heritage Grill by Dennis Hurd

The 3rd Annual RCFM fundraiser is happening Wednesday June 2nd, from 6PM till whenever we close the place down, and will feature your choice of pasta entrée or burger entrée (with four burger types to select from!) and your choice of glass draft or house wine. We’ll also be featuring a silent auction with great goodies donated by our wonderful supporters. Its a great way to meet like minded people. Tickets are just $20 and are available bycalling 778 928 7236 or emailing info@newwestfarmers.ca or by stopping by the Village Coffee Lounge at 705 12th Street.

It’s going to be a great time!

Jen, Will, and Jocelyn at the 2009 Fundraiser - photo by Jocelyn Tomkinson

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Summer Season Coming Together

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On May 8th, the Vancouver Farmers Markets will be kicking off its summer season. It seems really early to me – not because we don’t have the requests to start early from both shoppers and vendors -but because I’m currently deep in the middle of allocation and scheduling and approving new vendors and May 8th seems so close! Good luck to our Vancouver Market friends!

I frequently get asked if I feel that other market organizations are competition and I prefer to think of all the other markets as similar teams running the same marathon. We all have our own goals but we sure can train together. It’s great to connect with other markets during this planning stage and share and learn from one another. Whenever I can, I like to visit other markets and see what’s working for them. RCFM is a relatively new organization – this will only be our third summer season – and there is much to learn!

Our summer season returns to Tipperary Park on June 10th from 3-7. We’re pleased to be starting earlier and adding two extra weeks to our season, bringing it to a total of 18. This year we are planning as many kids activities as possible, and we’ll continue to have music at every market. We’ll also going to introduce a few new things this year, one of which is at least two Member Appreciation Days where organization members will get discounts and deals and special offers from participating vendors.

One this is for sure, this is going to be a fantastic season! We asked you last year what you wanted us to improve and we appreciate all the feedback. Many of you felt that there were more than enough craft fairs in the area, and wanted to see more food vendors, so we are increasing the food vendors to 90% of the market, and allocating only 10% to arts and crafts. We’re shooting for 50-60% fresh food vendors at each and 30-40% prepared goods. We’re also going to work hard to bring a greater variety of community groups and services to the market so that you can check out the great work non-profits are doing to help improve New Westminster. We will still operate Art in the Park (and are looking for artists who are interested in our open air free art gallery) and continue to bring you a great community event each week.

Stay tuned for info about our 3rd Annual Fundraiser!

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Land Acknowledgement

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.