Feel the Love Lyn!

Burnaby Artisan Farmers Market Manager, Ron Gorman, closed the 2016 season shooting this great farewell video tribute to retiring General Manager, Lyn Hainstock. Awesome job Ron! Great way to capture “The Love”, appreciation and admiration Lyn receives from the market vendors. In the video, Natalie Forstbauer briefly explains the important role her mother Marie Forstbauer played in helping […]

Stein Mountain Farm in Lytton, B.C. – A Featured Vendor Story

Stein Mountain Farm is a multi generational family run farm The farm is located in the heart of the Fraser Canyon, 12 miles north of Lytton B.C. Families all work the land together. It is not unusual for for them to be working in our fields with their babies and kids playing at their sides. […]

Images from a Short Visit to Burnaby Farmer’s Market

Featured Vendor: TLC Cozy Bags

TLC Cozy Bags Thu Pham:  It all started with my  friend Lisa giving me a hot/cold pad as a present 9 years ago.  My family loved using it so much that I asked her to teach me how to sew and the two of us got into making them to sell at farmers markets and craft fairs […]

Featured Vendor: JD Naturals

Elena Jansson JD Naturals started with 100% natural hand-made soaps and pure beeswax candles, which remains at the heart of what I do, but also includes a growing list of skincare and home items. The focus is on quality with everything produced in small batches using food grade, mostly organic ingredients. I started making my […]

Featured Vendor: Your Wildest Foods

Your Wildest Foods will be at Lonsdale this Saturday and at Ambleside September 13 The foraging business can be quite the adventure. Some days we’ll hike miles through the scorched black remains of last year’s wildfires; packing 70 lbs of morels and trying to beat the setting sun. Some days we’re scaling perilous mountainsides in […]

How to pickle and preserve 6 summer fruits and vegetables

Lock in summer flavours now to enjoy during the colder months! By Kristen Eppich Preserving vegetables is a wonderful way to lock in summer flavours to be enjoyed during the colder months. It has also become a bit of a novelty, with pickles of all shapes and colours adorning plates across the nation. I once […]