Check out these amazing markets and visit a local farmers’ market in your area!
1. Calgary Farmers’ Market, Alberta
Try: Free-range pork and beef
Runs: All year (Thurs – Sun. 9am-5pm)
2. Evergreen Brick Works Farmers’ Market, Ontario
Try: Welsh onions
Runs: Year round
Days: Sat: 9am-1pm (Winter) Sat: 8am-1pm (Summer)
3. St. Norbert’s Le Marché, Manitoba.
Try: bok choy and long beans
Runs: June 1 to October 26 (8am – 3pm, Saturday)
June 5 to September 25 (12pm – 6pm, Wednesday)
4. Salt Spring Island’s Saturday Market
Try: Organically grown jams, jellies and chutneys from Sunshine Rock Farm
Runs: (first Saturday in April) through the last Saturday in October (8:30am – 4pm)
(Official dates for 2013: Saturday March 30 – October 26)