Farmers markets

People attend Cloverdale Market Days May 28, 2022. Market Days returns this Saturday, June 25, for its second of five dates this year. (Photo: Jason Sveinson)

Market Days returns this Saturday

Food trucks, musicians, and tons of vendors coming to downtown Cloverdale

 

B.C. is investing another $12 million into the BC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program, and upping the weekly amount participants receive from $21 to $27. (Photo: BC Association of Farmers’ Markets)

B.C. upping access to farmers’ market coupon program with $12-million injection

Program provides low-income households, seniors, pregnant people with weekly coupons for local goods

 

White Rock Farmer’s Market on a rainy Sunday, May 15 (Photo: Sobia Moman)

White Rock Farmers Market patrons brave rain, wind to shop local

‘Rain or shine’ White Rock Farmer’s Market open every Sunday until Oct. 16

 

The arts – and a wide range of other products – are also represented White Rock Farmers’ Market, which reopens April 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (File photo)

White Rock Farmers’ Market back ‘bigger and better than ever’

Semiahmoo Peninsula tradition returns minus restrictions

The arts – and a wide range of other products – are also represented White Rock Farmers’ Market, which reopens April 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (File photo)
A woman crosses 176th Street in Cloverdale in April, 2021. 176th Street will close five times this year as Cloverdale Market Days returns for the first time since 2019 after two straight years of COVID-caused cancellation. (Photo: Malin Jordan)

Market Days returns to Cloverdale after 2-year COVID-caused hiatus

Dates for 2022 set: May 28, June 25, July 23, Aug. 27, Sept. 17

A woman crosses 176th Street in Cloverdale in April, 2021. 176th Street will close five times this year as Cloverdale Market Days returns for the first time since 2019 after two straight years of COVID-caused cancellation. (Photo: Malin Jordan)
A new federal-provincial program promises to help farmers’ markets deal with emergencies. (Black Press Media file photo)

New program promises to help B.C. farmers’ markets deal with emergencies, growing challenges

First-come, first-served program offers a total of $475,000 in funding

A new federal-provincial program promises to help farmers’ markets deal with emergencies. (Black Press Media file photo)
FreshBark Co. vendor Rashid Jalil sells all-natural dog treats at Surrey Urban Farmers Market at Royal Kwantlen Park. The daytime market is held there every second Saturday, including Aug. 28. (submitted photo: Johann Vincent/BC Farmers Market Trail)

Surrey Urban Farmers Market moves to Royal Kwantlen Park after ‘late start’ this summer

‘If we can get steady attendance, it’s going to go a long way to help us grow and stay there,’ market manager says

FreshBark Co. vendor Rashid Jalil sells all-natural dog treats at Surrey Urban Farmers Market at Royal Kwantlen Park. The daytime market is held there every second Saturday, including Aug. 28. (submitted photo: Johann Vincent/BC Farmers Market Trail)