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Saturday December 3 is Market Day! 11am to 3pm

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   It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!    

Are you checking out the Santa Clause Parade downtown on Saturday? Head on up to Belmont Street to check out the goodies at our uptown market!

Be sure to visit the vendors situated in our big Marquee Tent sponsored by the wonderful folks of the Uptown Business Association. You’ll find many of your favourite vendors under the tent as well as some new faces—and some perfect stocking stuffer gifts!

Driving to the market? FREE PARKING is available at Westminster Centre, directly across the street from Belmont Street. If you are taking transit the #106 bus stops at 5th avenue and 6th street. Coming from the Quay? Take River Market’s brand new FREE DUC shuttle from the Quay straight to our location.

Join us on Belmont Street for lunch! Enjoy a nice coffee and relax on one of the Uptown Parklet adirondack chairs!

A list of our vendors for December 3 can be found below. Please check out Facebook Page or Twitter for any last minute cancellations or updates.

 

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What’s happening at the Market?

Entertainment

Farm Fresh Produce

  • Ossome Acres -Winter squash, kale, kalettes, brussel sprouts, micro-greens, spinach, salad mix, lettuce, herbs, hand milled soap, walnuts, Christmas wreaths
  • Bose & Sons Family Farm –Broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, potatoes
  • Country Village Market -Frozen berries, greens, pakoras
  • Nutrigreens – Micro-greens, potatoes, zucchini, cucumber

Beef, Eggs, Poultry and Seafood

  • Rockweld Farm – BC SPCA Certified frozen chicken and chicken products including eggs, dog and cat food
  • Wild West Coast Seafoods –  flash frozen fillets of Rock Sole, Petrale Sole, Rockfish, Ling Cod, Pacific Cod, Sablefish, Chinook/Spring Salmon, Coho Salmon, Sidestripe Shrimp, Halibut, Albacore Tuna Loin.
  • Local Beef & Eggs – purslane, onions, chives, rhubarb, eggs, kale

Artisan Breads

  • A Bread Affair – breads, baguettes, ciabattas, rolls, scones (Certified Organic)
  • Gesundheit Bakery – breads

Gluten Free Breads & Baking

  • Delish Gluten Free – bread, scones, muffins, brownies and cookies
  • Marie’s Guilt Free Baking – bread, cookies, pizza dough and snacks

Bakery

  • Sweet Thea Cakes – tarts, pies, cookies and cakes
  • Simply Scones – traditional English style scones
  • Samaya Delights – turmeric muffins, baklava
  • Baguette & Co. – breads, loaves, pastries, croissants, danishes, turn-overs

Food Trucks & Eat On Site

  • Old Country Pierogi – hot piegoris
  • Country Village Market – yummy pakoras & samosas

Prepared Foods (Pantry Staples)

  • Jam Shack Preservery – savoury spreads and jams
  • Old Country Pierogi –frozen pierogies (gluten free and vegan options available)
  • Muy Rico – salsas, mayonaise, mole sauces, tortilla chips and corn tortillas
  • Sidney’s Smokehouse – locally made jerky
  • BobAli – tasty dips and hummus spreads
  • Lilise Applesauce – delicious gourmet applesauces
  • Tasty & Nourishing – soups and stews
  • Kikis’ Kitchen – vegan soups

Jewelry & Artisan Crafts

  • New World Felting -beautifully made felted scarves & hats
  • Quality Oak Accents – hand crafted cutting boards by Louie
  • Lighten Up Jewels -timeless pieces made by Holly

Health, Beauty & Services

  • Purely Clean – an all natural way to clean your home

Wine, Beer & Spirits

  • Dragon Mist Distillery – locally made vodka and gin
  • Steel & Oak – local craft beer

 

Special Thanks to our Music Stage Sponsor Roland Kaulfuss:

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Saturday November 19th Market Day! 11am to 3pm

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Grab your umbrella and join us for a joint rendition of “Rain, Rain go away!” this Saturday at the Winter market on Belmont from 11am to 3pm.

Rain isn’t guaranteed, but we do promise to have delicious treats, seasonable local foods, and stocking stuffers for you early Christmas shoppers. Grab your reusable bag and come fill it with fresh local produce, pastries, breads. Grab a jar of jam to spread on that baguette! Stock up on some local craft beer, dessert, or popcorn! We have a bit of everything to suit your rainy day desires!

Be sure to visit the vendors situated in our big Marquee Tent sponsored by the wonderful folks of the Uptown Business Association. You’ll find many of your favourite vendors under the tent as well as some new faces.

Driving to the market? FREE PARKING is available at Westminster Centre, directly across the street from Belmont Street. If you are taking transit the #106 bus stops at 5th avenue and 6th street. Coming from the Quay? Take River Market’s brand new FREE DUC shuttle from the Quay straight to our location.

Join us on Belmont Street for lunch! Enjoy a nice coffee and relax on one of the UpTown Parklet adirondack chairs!

A list of our vendors for November 19th can be found below. Please check out Facebook Page or Twitter for any last minute cancellations or updates.

What’s happening at the Market?

 

Entertainment

 

Farm Fresh Produce

  • Ripple Creek Organics –swiss chard, kale, beets, kennebec potatoes, zucchini, fresh garlic, leeks, cucumber, baby lettuce mix, eggplant, arugula, specialty mix, cherry tomatoes. (Certified Organic)
  • Ossome Acres -Winter squash, Kale, kalettes, Brussel sprouts, Micro greens, Spinach, Salad mix, lettuce, Herbs, Hand milled soap, Walnuts, Christmas wraiths
  • Bose & Sons Family Farm –Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Potatoes
  • Country Village Market -Frozen berries, greens, pakoras
  • Nutrigreens – microgreens, potatoes, zucchini, cucumber
  • Your Wildest Foods – foraged mushrooms, dried teas and fresh mushrooms
  • Sweet Earth Organics – carrots, greens, turnips

Beef, Eggs, Poultry and Seafood

  • Rockweld Farm – BC SPCA Certified frozen chicken and chicken products including eggs, dog and cat food
  • Wild West Coast Seafoods –  flash frozen fillets of Rock Sole, Petrale Sole, Rockfish, Ling Cod, Pacific Cod, Sablefish, Chinook/Spring Salmon, Coho Salmon, Sidestripe Shrimp, Halibut, Albacore Tuna Loin.
  • Wheelhouse Seafoods – seafood pasta and crab cakes, frozen salmon and spot prawns
  • Local Beef & Eggs – purslane, onions, chives, rhubarb, eggs, kale

Artisan Breads

  • A Bread Affair – breads, baguettes, ciabattas, rolls, scones (Certified Organic)

Gluten Free Breads & Baking

  • Delish Gluten Free – bread, scones, muffins, brownies and cookies
  • Marie’s Guilt Free Baking – bread, cookies, pizza dough and snacks

Bakery

  • Sweet Thea Cakes – tarts, pies, cookies and cakes
  • Simply Scones – traditional English style scones
  • Sable Shortbread – tasty yummy specialty shortbread
  • Half Pint Pies – frozen mini pies to take home and bake
  • Samaya Delights – turmeric muffins, baklava
  • Baguette & Co. – breads, loaves, pastries, croissants, danishes, turn-overs

Snacks

Food Trucks & Eat On Site

  • Cheeses Crust – Grilled Cheeses!
  • Wheelhouse Seafoods – salmon burgers
  • Country Village Market – yummy pakoras & samosas

Prepared Foods (Pantry Staples)

  • Jam Shack Preservery – savoury spreads and jams
  • Old Country Pierogi –frozen pierogies (gluten free and vegan options available)
  • Muy Rico – salsas, mayonaise, mole sauces, tortilla chips and corn tortillas
  • Livi & K – Raw Granola clusters packed full of flavours
  • Sidney’s Smokehouse – locally made jerky
  • BobAli – tasty dips and hummus spreads
  • Anne’s Gallery -jams, chutneys and preserves and Spiced Peach Jam!
  • Real Meals – prepared frozen foods for healthy meals at home
  • Roasters Hot Sauce – hot sauces of various flavours
  • Lilise Applesauce – delicious gourmet applesauces
  • Jam ‘n Music – award winning jams

Jewelry & Artisan Crafts

  • New World Felting -beautifully made felted scarves & hats
  • Quality Oak Accents – hand crafted cutting boards by Louie
  • Anne’s Gallery – 

Health, Beauty & Services

  • Purely Clean – an all natural way to clean your home

Wine, Beer & Spirits

  • Dragon Mist Distillery – locally made vodka and gin
  • Steel & Oak – local craft beer

 

Special Thanks to our Music Stage Sponsor Roland Kaulfuss:

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September 29th Market Day

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Fall is well on its way and we’ve been lucky enough to see warm, sunny days following suit. Take a stroll through Tipperary Park this Thursday to grab some seasonal fruits and veggies, eat at one of our eat-on-site vendor and take in those welcomed sun rays!

Driving to the market? FREE PARKING is available on Royal Avenue, Queens Avenue and in the City Hall Parking lot after 4:30pm.  There is a parking area in front of City Hall open to market shoppers after 4:30.

What’s happening at the Market?

The New Westminster Public Library will be at the market this week to engage you in their community program. Stop by and have a chat!

The City of New Westminster is writing a new Arts Strategy, and is encouraging residents to take part. The new Arts Strategy will be a guiding document that will renew, refresh, and re-envision plans for the development of the arts in New Westminster. Please fill out the short survey here and come and visit us at our table.

Entertainment

 For the Kids
  • Have fun in our Mini Farmers Market play area (free)
  • Fun crafty craft with Music Box (free)

For information on where our market is located, how to find parking and transit directions visit our Summer FAQ page.

Download the Ultimate Farmers Market Shopping List to help with your meal planning and purchases for the week.

Farm Fresh Produce

  • Greendale Herb and Vine – herbs, mini cucumbers, eggplants, greens, sweet red peppers, garlic, apples, heirloom tomatoes, plums, squash, cherry tomatoes, two bite apples
  • Ripple Creek Organics –swiss chard, kale, beets, kennebec potatoes, zucchini, fresh garlic, leeks, cucumber, baby lettuce mix, eggplant, arugula, specialty mix, cherry tomatoes. (Certified Organic)
  • Ossome Acres – sweet peppers, artisan tomatoes, dragon tongue beans, kale, and rainbow swiss chard, carrots and more (Certified Organic)
  • Bose & Sons Family Farm – Broccoli, carrot, green kale, celery, zucchini, corn, lettuce (green butter, red butter and green leaf), green pepper, tomatoes, norchip and chieftain potatoes
  • Zaklan Heritage Farms – apples and pears, melons, salad, carrots, spinach, beets, onions, squash, zucchini, radishes, turnips, daikon, beans, tomatoes, mustard greens, kale, chard, napa cabbage, cabbage, flowers, dandilion greens
  • Country Village Market – berries, frozen blueberries, corn
  • Nutrigreens – microgreens, potatoes, zucchini, cucumber
  • RCFM Merchandise Stall – Dried morel and porcini mushrooms

Cheese & Dairy

  • Golden Ears Cheesecrafters – Cheddar-Aged Medium, Brie, Jersey Blue, Cultured Butter, Havarti-Aged (Flavoured), Gouda-Aged Medium (Flavoured), Feta (Plain, Cranberry, Garlic Scape), Curds, Neufchatel (Plain, Herb & Garlic), Quark (Plain, Cranberry), Emmental, Velvet Blue
  • The Local Churn -hand churned gourmet butter

Beef, Eggs, Poultry and Seafood

  • Rockweld Farm – BC SPCA Certified frozen chicken and chicken products including eggs, dog and cat food
  • Wild West Coast Seafoods –  flash frozen fillets of Rock Sole, Petrale Sole, Rockfish, Ling Cod, Pacific Cod, Sablefish, Chinook/Spring Salmon, Coho Salmon, Sidestripe Shrimp, Halibut, Albacore Tuna Loin.
  • Wheelhouse Seafoods – seafood pasta and crab cakes, frozen salmon and spot prawns
  • Vale Farms – Beef, Chicken, Turkey, Beef Broth, Pork all 100% grass fed (Certified Organic)
  • Local Beef & Eggs – purslane, onions, chives, rhubarb, eggs, kale

Artisan Breads

  • A Bread Affair – breads, baguettes, ciabattas, rolls, scones (Certified Organic)

Gluten Free Breads & Baking

  • Delish Gluten Free – bread, scones, muffins, brownies and cookies
  • Marie’s Guilt Free Baking – bread, cookies, pizza dough and snacks

Bakery

  • Sweet Thea Cakes – tarts, pies, cookies and cakes
  • Feeding Change – decadent raw treats
  • Simply Scones – traditional English style scones
  • Sable Shortbread – tasty yummy specialty shortbread

Snacks

  • Gary’s Kettlecorn – kettle corn (traditional and caramel)
  • Handworks Coffee – Pour-over iced and warm coffee, hand whisked matcha tea

Food Trucks & Eat On Site

  • Meet 2 Eat – food truck serving Middle Eastern inspired food
  • Gypsy Trunk Gourmet Fare – vegan burritos sausages and more!
  • Wheelhouse Seafoods – salmon burgers
  • Country Village Market – yummy pakoras!

Prepared Foods (Pantry Staples)

  • Jam Shack Preservery – savoury spreads and jams
  • The Salt Dispensary – salted caramels, smoked salts and pepper mixes
  • Muy Rico – salsas, mayonaise, mole sauces, tortilla chips and corn tortillas
  • HoneyBee Zen Apiaries – honey made from New West hives

Health, Beauty & Services

  • Purely Clean – an all natural way to clean your home

Jewelry & Artisan Crafts

  • Bits & Keys – funky jewelry and fun crosstiches
  • Quality Oak Accents – hand crafted cutting boards by Louie

Special Thanks to our Music Stage Sponsor Roland Kaulfuss:

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Ask and you shall receive.

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Two weeks ago there were at least two, possibly three market vendors displaying large, beautifully green and white fennel bulbs, this week, there were none. I was about to settle into panic mode, I was frantically stalking table after table looking for the feathery fronds.

I did NOT want to veer from this week’s plan.

With desperation in my voice, I asked Noella Oss of Ossome Acres if she had any, knowing full well there were none on her tables.

A winking smile spread across her face.

“We have one, but it’s old, from last week,” she said.

She opened up a plastic bin from behind the tent and pulled out a giant bulb. The fronds weren’t the luscious green of the week before, rather a light green, bordering on brown in spots. But the white bulb was large and thick and that’s exactly what I needed.

I told her my plans.

She told me the bulb would suit them perfectly.

Even better at the week-old, discounted price she gave!

And with that, the first cioppino of the season was born.

ingredients

For cioppino, I usually use the Bon Appetit recipe as it has never steered me wrong. But this time I got a little adventurous and veered from the word-for-word recipe. While I kept to the base, I changed things up a bit to make it more market-fresh.

Because cioppino is usually a cold-weather meal, the veggie content has never been market-fresh. It’s always been canned tomatoes, shipped in fennel, onions, and seafood too. But with Saturday’s forecast calling for heavy rain, I thought it a perfect opportunity to experiment with my cioppino.

Instead of canned tomatoes, I used fresh roma tomatoes that I crushed in the blender; my onion, garlic and fennel were also fresh and local. The major seafood component, pacific cod, was acquired from Ron “the fish guy” at Wild Westcoast Seafoods.

In recipes past, I’ve used halibut for the white fish, but halibut is crazy expensive right now. Ron steered us towards the pacific cod (“chunkies”) that is similar to halibut, albeit a bit chewier, and at a fraction of the cost.

Technically the crusty bread wasn’t acquired at the market, but we did pick the loaf up from Bread Affair at Granville Island, which also has a booth at the market, so it, too, had a market connection.

Honestly, I don’t know if the taste was any better, but I do know it wasn’t worse. I love my cioppino. I’ve loved it ever since my first recollection of it when in San Francisco years ago, and this batch did not disappoint. Every slurp was a savoury adventure of glorious goodness.

Another market score!

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Base recipe here

This week’s loot:

Wild Westcoast Seafoods: • Pacific cod: $8

Ossome Acres: • 6 German butter potatoes: $2.30

• 1 bag of dragon-tongue beans: $2.10

• 1 fennel: $2.25

Zaklan Heritage Farm: • 1 onion: $0.70

• 4 sweet peppers: $4.65

• 2 mustard greens: $5

• 1 garlic bulb: $1.80

• 4 roma tomatoes: $2.28

Harvest Direct Farms: • 5 ambrosia apples: $5

Muy Rico: • 1 container pico de gallo: $5

Total spent was $39.10, leaving 90 cents to spend on next week’s $40 budget.

Last week Aaron Oss encouraged me to take a chomp out of one of his purple and white dragon tongue beans. It was crisp, it was juicy, and by golly that colour tugged at my pretty little taste buds.

I had hoped to throw the beans into a salad, but got so bogged down with my first week of physics, I didn’t end up using them beyond mixing them into a stir fry and eating them raw with hummus. Both of which were fine, but I wanted to really showcase their uniqueness. So for this week, I tracked down a salad recipe that called for fingerling potatoes, which I switched out for German butter potatoes.

I baked the potatoes, made my own viniagrette, blanched the beans, which were supposed to change from their pretty spots to green, but in the end only partially changed, mixed it all together.

Wow!

Every bite was an explosion of succulent flavour. So tasty. So good. So going to be making again.

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Recipe here

Can you guess what I’m making next week?

I’m on the hunt for tomatoes, onion, garlic, jalapeño, cilantro and salt. It’s something already offered at the market, but something I’m going to try my hand at making market-fresh, homemade.

What are you on the hunt for?

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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.