Fresh Sheet: May 14, 2014

 

Welcome to the 2014 Market Season!

Join us WEDNESDAY in the Terwillegar Recreation Center Parking Lot from 4:30-7:30

Opening day is going to be a blast as we launch our Sprouts Program for kids, host Puppets on a String, eat dinner at our favourite food trucks, browse our artisans' wares, and load up on the best vegetables, meat, baking and ready-to-eat foods the city has to offer. 

Join us here on the "Market Fresh Sheet" every Tuesday to see what's fresh and happening at your favourite farmers' market! For market shopping tips, be sure to check out this page to ensure your market visit is everything it should be. And remember, please leave Fido at home- no dogs are allowed where food is being served! 

  

We are very excited to be launching our Sprouts Program for kids this season. Children between 4-12 will receive a $2 token every week to spend with our fruit and vegetable vendors, along with their own mini shopping bag and an entry into a draw to win a healthy prize pack from Choose Well! Come early to ensure your child has a spot in this fantastic new program. For more information on the Sprouts Program, click here.

Momstown is back this year! Bring your child to their tent for a fun craft throughout the summer. This week, crafty kids will be creating newspaper planters and planting vegetable seeds to grow for The Edmonton Food Bank's Plant a Row, Grow a Row program. Children can bring their full-sized veggie back at the end of the season to donate to the Food Bank!

We don't fail to entertain at the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market! Check out this week's entertainers and buskers below. 

Puppets on a String is back for opening day this season! This local group will be performing a puppet show for children by the info tent. Be sure to stop by and say hello to the puppeteers and their fuzzy pals!

Two balloon artists, Pretzel and Russ, and the face painter extraordinaire, Lady Dolphin, will be joining us this week. Their services are great for kids of all ages (even you, Dad)!

Austin the Busker is back with his guitar this week, and we all know he has the powers to make the ladies dance! If you think you have what it takes to play your instrument at SWEFM, be sure to check out our Become a Busker page. 

The Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market aims to enhance and support our vibrant community. Check out how to engage with your neighbours this week!

The Edmonton Food Bank will be in our community tent accepting donations and promoting their Plant a Row, Grow a Row program. Learn what you can plant in your garden this year to help those less fortunate come harvest time and be sure to bring a non-perishable food item to donate!

Servus Credit Union, a sponsor of the Southwest Edmonton Farmers’ Market, will be on site beside the community tent on opening day.  Come on by to the Servus tent and play their gumball game. If you get a green gumball, you will win an awesome pair of green color pop Servus ear buds!  They will even be giving away reusable totes to anyone who drops by the Servus tent (limited quantity).  On top of all the fun, there will be a contest to win a Servus gift package including 4 Telus World of Science tickets and more.  Come by the Servus tent to learn more!

The Terwilegar Riverbend Advisory Council will be promoting their 10K Rock N' Run coming on June 1st. Stop by and say hello! 

 

Veggies may not be coming from the fields yet, but we'll have piles of root crops, greenhouse favourites and bedding plants available this week:

Dargatz Family Farm will be bringing four culinary herb pots to market: "Country Kitchen" with basil, garlic chives, parsley, thyme, sweet marjoram and purple sage; "Italian Chef's Choice" with two kinds of basil (green and purple), lemon thyme, rosemary and two kinds of oregano (variegated and hot & spicy; "French Cuisine" with parsley, rosemary, purple sage, thyme and tarragon and "Tasty Tomato" with a large tomato in the centre of the pot surrounded by various herbs.

Holden Colony will be bringing a variety of vegetables and preserves.

Riverbend Gardens will have herbs, tomato plants (see the varieties available here), flowers, vegetable seedlings, hanging baskets, along with potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage.

S4 Greenhouses will be bringing tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce and more!

Our meat line-up has some old favourites and some new vendors to try: 

Sunworks Farm brings a variety of grass-fed and organic meats to market.

Jerky Jerky is new to market and will be bringing a variety of dried jerky products. Yum!

This season we're proud to include baking vendors that cater not only to your sweet tooth, but to your dietary restrictions, too! From gluten-free to nut-free, everyone can treat themselves at SWEFM this season. 

Celebrate, Gluten Free is the perfect option for those with gluten sensitivities. They're bringing many items this week including multigrain buns and Celebration Cakes for pick-up or order.

Raspberry & Cocoa is back and will be bringing their delicious croissants and other baked treats to market.

Sweet Stuff is back this season with her delicious and adorable mini and full-sized cupcakes. They're perfect for a sweet little treat!

Confetti Sweets is our latest specialty cookie vendor at SWEFM. Try a coconut cookie this week; they're fabulous!

Cafe O' Play's Little Crumbs is our brand-new nut-free baker. They will be bringing Fruity Pebble squares, pumpkin seed macaroons, "Lemon Crumbs", "Little Crumbs", pizza buns, cinnamon buns, Oreo pops, cookies and locally-roasted coffee this week.

Prairie Mill Baking Co. is back this season with their locally-baked bread. They have something for everyone, so say hello this week!

 

Want a quick and delicious take-home food item? We've got you covered!

Birds and Bees Winery will be bringing their delicious honey wines and meads to market this week. Grab a bottle to enjoy on the deck after dinner!

Cravings Gelato will be bringing their fantastic gelato in a wide variety of flavours. Get more than one... we won't judge!

Fruits of Sherbrooke will be bringing their delicious preserves made from rescued fruit.

Melodi's Kitchen will be bringing baklava, beef and feta cheese sigara boregi, spinach boregi, apple cinnamon cookies, raspberry jam cookies, Easter bread with raisins, simit, lentil burgers, tahinli corek, eggplant dolma, and yaprak sarmasi.

Mini Kitchen specializes in delicious Indian and Thai food. Stop by and say hello!

The Mallow Fellow is back with new and old favourite flavours including cotton candy, licorice, bubble gum, espresso, grapefruit, toasted coconut, cinnamon roll,
and more!

Theo's Greek Kouzina bringing their well-loved greek dips and treats to market this week.

Honest Dumplings will be bringing four types of dumplings this week, all made with organic unbleached flour and fresh ingredients: Maple pork belly with quinoa and baby bok choy; pork with edamame beans and shrimp; spicy chicken with peanuts and flat beans and spicy tofu with peanuts.

The Violet Chocolate Company is back with their delicious specialty chocolate!

Simply Supper brings ready-to-eat meals to market to make your busy life easier.

Freaking Fantastic Flax will be bringing whole golden flax seed, ground flax, granola bars and trail mix to make snacking easier in the coming week!

 

No farmers' market visit is complete without dinner at one of our fantastic food trucks. Where will you eat this week?

Bully Food Truck makes drool-worthy comfort food using fresh and local ingredients.

Fat Franks is back and will be ready to serve you their delicious hot dogs and smokies with all the fixings!

The Pink Kernel will be at market for all of you who can't turn down childhood favourites like mini doughnuts, cotton candy and snow cones.

Original Canadian Kettle Corn, a farmers' market staple, will be here this week satisfying all of your cravings for this summer favourite!

Yellowbird Food Truck is back this season with their Japanese fusion cuisine.

Knosh Food Truck will be joining us on opening day with their UK comfort food. This week they'll have scones and clotted cream and their very own version of "Harry Potter Butterbeer". You'll have to stop by to see what they mean!

Ada's Soap Shop is joining us again this season, so be sure to stop by to try their wonderful handmade soap and bodycare products.

See you at market!

How Processed Food Marketers Get to Your Children

The reason that SWEFM first came into existence was to create a vehicle for community. What the

original organizers very quickly came to realize was that a farmer’s market was a perfect setting in which people could come together, form valuable connections with each other, meaningful connections with their food and with the artisans who created beautiful items, and connections with their local community. Not only could they support the local economy with their purchases, the people who came to the market could also support each other.

In our neck of the woods, bursting to the seams as it is with young families, it also became a perfect place for families to come together and to spend time with each other, building memories and a history of shared experiences. Add to that fun & tasty reasons to stay there for a long time… from the food trucks to the balloon busker, from the face painter and musical buskers to the huge inflatable slide, from the tempting produce to the delicious take-home baking… and it soon became obvious to many that our farmers’ market had become a destination.

Through the blog posts we have also come to realize that the market is also a terrific vehicle for education… teaching people about their food… how to cook and prepare simple, healthy, nutritious home cooked meals; how to know more about how the food you put on your plate is raised ethically, sustainably and perhaps, even organically; how to add simplicity into your daily healthy living routine; and what healthy eating is and can be.

In that vein, we are planning an exciting new kids’ program this year… one that will support your

efforts as parents to teach your kids how to embrace a healthy, nutritious and fun approach to their food. More details will follow soon as we’re working very hard to get grants lined up and sponsorships in place. Know that it will encourage your children to try and to eat healthy fruits and vegetables. Know that it is something that will help to support you, as a parent, in your efforts to raise your children in a healthy, nutritious environment. Know that it will empower them to make good choices in their young lives.

Lately I have been catching up on a few podcasts that I enjoy listening to, and back in December, CBC aired an episode of “Ideas” that I found absolutely fascinating. In it, Jill Eisen explored the politics, economics and science of overeating. It was called “Stuffed Part 1” and you can follow this link to listen to the entire episode (I highly recommend listening to it in its entirety)… CBC-Ideas with Paul Kennedy “Stuffed, Part 1,” by Jill Eisen

What I have learned there, about the ways that marketers of processed food reach out and ensnare the appetites, attention and focus of us.. and even more alarmingly, of our children… is extremely fascinating. I thought I’d share a few of their findings here… some of these things you may already know, but some you may find surprising:

1)            The more we process food, the less nutritious it becomes.

2)            The more we process food, the more energy-dense it becomes (think higher in calories per bite or sip and lower in fiber, antioxidants and a whole lot of other vitamins and nutrients). In 1970, 3200 calories a day were purchased by the average person in the US. By 1990, that number rose to 3900 calories per day…. This represents way more calories than a normal person should consume in an day.

3)            Processing foods has made food products highly attractive to us as it adds sugar, fat and salt for taste and preservative reasons… we are, afterall, creatures that have evolved to love and crave salt, fat & sugar. Evolutionarily speaking, foods high in sugar, especially in the form of refined carbohydrates, allow us to get glucose into the blood stream faster, and that, in turn, equips our bodies for the flight or fright survival instincts with which we are better apt to survive. We are wired to crave it.

4)            Grain is the basis (whether through sugar or oil) of most processed foods. When governments began subsidizing grain-based foods (think anything with high fructose corn syrup… items such as pops, snack foods, breads & pastries) and doing nothing for the healthier foods (produce such as raw fruits & vegetables & legumes), a flood of calories saturated the grocery store shelves, and these unhealthy products also came to those shelves at a very low, very attractive price point.

5)            Since 1980, thanks in part to this subsidization, there was a huge oversupply and saturation of the market in processed, grain-based foods. We humans are nothing if not clever and quick to seize an opportunity to turn a profit, and manufacturers and inventors came up with brilliant ways to make new foods out of these cheaper, subsidized food sources. The end result was that the price of produce went up 40% while the cost of pop went down 7%. So government policy has supported the grain-based foods at the expense of healthier, whole foods like fruits and veggies.

6)            As a result, there was a growing disparity in the price between what can be loosely called healthy whole foods and their unhealthy processed food counterparts.

7)            Our eating follows the dollar very closely.

8)            When Reagan came into power in the US, he brought with him a sweeping deregulatory agenda. And one of the things that was deregulated was marketing… and in particular, marketing to children (how it could happen, when it could happen, where it could happen, and how often it could happen).

9)            At the same time (post baby boom), food companies had to find new markets for their products… with the North American population remaining relatively stable, the only way they could meet growth and profitability targets was to find new markets, and to encourage us to consume more of their products.

10)         Children were that new market, and the deregulation atmosphere changed things significantly. Food marketing has always been directed to children, but it changed significantly in the 1980’s to be a deliberate & direct focus of advertisers: they put cartoons on food packages, increased the number of times that children’s food commercials aired on television and increasingly put marketing in the places where children are (eg. at eye level in the grocery stores or at the height where they’d see it sitting in a shopping cart). According to this episode of “Ideas,” “the average child in North America sees 10,000 food ads on TV and many more directed just to them on social media each year.”

11)         The processed food industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year in North America, targeting children. The governments spend an insignificant fraction of that amount on encouraging people to lead healthy, active lives. As a result, we get almost no aid competing with the misleading agenda of the processed food advertisers.

12)         Children are a captive audience & easy to reach.

13)         If you can induce brand loyalty... get a child to prefer a particular brand… that preference may continue throughout their life.

14)         There’s the highly effective pester factor at work… getting a child to know and prefer a product by brand name and pester the parents to buy branded foods when he or she sees it in the store.

15)         And then there is, perhaps, the most insidious aspect of marketing to children… according to Mary Ann Nestle, “marketers want children to believe that branded foods with cartoons on them are foods designed for children, foods made especially for them… they’re kids foods.. they’re what they’re supposed to be eating. Not the boring foods that their parents are eating. This is a complete undermining of parental authority around food issues and a highly successful strategy.”

According to Michael Polan, the diet of the average North American child is 70% junk food and 30%

is real food, some of which is healthy. Of that 30%, some of it is milk, some of it is fruits and vegetables, some of it is meat and other “healthy” things. The most popular category in the diet of the typical North American child is what’s called “grain based desserts”… including granola and cereal bars , breakfast cereals, baking, sweetened yogurts & icecreams… basically, anything using high fructose corn syrup), then sugary beverages, then salty snacks… and only after all those categories do children consume a healthy food item like milk.

Admittedly, a farmers’ market has its unhealthy temptations… kettle popcorn, cupcakes, chocolate,

pastries, candies, hot dogs and sno-cones… but it also has a ton of healthy, vibrantly coloured, densely nutritious and visually attractive fruits and vegetables, whole grain baking, and wonderfully tasty & inventive & healthy food truck offerings as well. It is a place devoid of the kinds of marketing that this episode of “Ideas” finds so insidious. It is a place where you can reclaim your parental authority around food issues and eating. It is a place where you can model healthy eating. It is a place without processed foods that are directly marketed with cartoon characters to your children. It is a place where you can access a wealth of whole foods. It is a place where you can find support in your parenting journey…. At the Southwest Edmonton farmers’ Market, we will be helping you down this path. Stay tuned…

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Contributed by Sheri Hendsbee

Fresh Sheet: May 29th

Garden Festival

Another market day is just around the corner and it's a special one! It's our Annual Garden Festival! You will find lots of fun filled, informative and delicious things to do at this week's market. Here are the highlights:

This is our annual kick off for Plant A Row, Grow A Row, our partnership with Edmonton's Food Bank that is designed to collect fresh fruits and veggies and deliver them to the food bank in the fall. It is our opportunity to make a difference in a really important way, contributing "real food" to the Food Bank's storage vaults: food that is fresh, nutrient dense and ever-so-healthy! To find out more about this important initiative, read these old blog posts:

• Plant A Row Grow A Row: A Unique Partnership
• Plant A Row, Grow A Row: What Do I Plant?
• A Tour of the Food Bank

The Edmonton Food Bank and its volunteers will be onsite collecting donations of:

• Sealed Bags of Rice
• Empty Egg Cartons
• Boxed, Canned & Bagged non-perishable Food Donations
• Any used shopping bags

Help us Grow A Stack of egg cartons at the SWEFM Info Tent for Edmonton's Food Bank... how tall can we make it??? The food bank is always in need of empty egg cartons.

Help us Fill our Wheelbarrow to overflowing with sealed bags of rice for the food bank. Rice is something simple, nourishing & easy to store that many food bank clients would love to see in their hampers regularly. A familiar staple the world over, our food bank doesn't see enough to meet its demand. Please consider bringing a bag of rice to our Garden Festival event... after all, a grain of rice is a "seed!" There are many ways to GROW a donation!

Servus Credit Union will be holding a penny drive, collecting old pennies that we can no longer use here in Canada, converting them into "real" cash and donating the proceeds to Edmonton's Food Bank. They have actually been collecting them for the food bank for the past 2 weeks at their local Rabbit Hill Rd. & 23rd Ave. branch! WIN BIG! Swap your old pennies for a draw ballot: you could win market bucks to use at your next visit to the market!

Our veggie growers will have plants ready for your gardens and hanging baskets all set to beautify your front porches, balconies and backyard decks. Most importantly, there will be little vegetable plants ready to put in your gardens and patio pots for Plant A Row, Grow A Row.

A number of organizations will be on site to answer any questions you might have and to help you take your gardening to the next level. 

Master Gardeners will be on site in our Community Tent... ask them any questions you have about gardening! They will have the answers! At the same time, they have a children's craft for your kids to do to help them participate in Plant A Row, Grow A Row. Stop by and have them make a newspaper pot and plant a seed or a seed potato for the food bank. Then take it home, plop it directly into a pot or your garden and.. voilà!... your kids are growing a donation!

Master Composter will also be at our market this year, teaching us all how to compost our kitchen and yard waste easily, efficiently and effectively. Stop by their booth to see for yourself how easy it can be to turn your garbage into valuable, nutrient-dense goodness for your garden!

Sustainable Food Edmonton focuses on ways to make our local food resources support our community, lessening our dependence on food trucked and shipped in from afar. Eating local food decreases the environmental cost of our food system, and increases the nutrient density of our food... find out more by stopping at their booth.

Here's what else you can expect to find at your community market this week.

For The Kids

Baring 25km/h winds (or greater... keep your fingers crossed!), kids can come and have a blast on the giant inflatable slide! It's 16 feet wide, 30 feet long and 22 feet high!! Just think how much energy your kids will expend racing up and down this slide... and how well they'll sleep at night! Rides will be $1 each, or $5 for unlimited slides. Remember that the slide will only be set up if, by noon Wednesday, the winds are & are forecasted to be 25km/hour or less.

Once again, wee ones can be transformed into butterflies and tigers when they get their faces painted with wonderfully creative and vivid designs by The Dolphin Lady that will be sure to spark their imaginations and instil a little wonderment into their lives... her hair has been blue, her hair has been pink... who knows what crazy colour it'll be this week! Pretzel will be there as well, creating amazing balloon figures in fabulous designs and colours as only he can, sure to amaze the inner child in all of us!

For Your Kitchen

Fresh veggies are finally trickling in... expect to see rhubarb for sure, and possibly spinach, this week! Dargatz Family Farms, The Holden Colony and Riverbend Gardens will have their over-wintered potatoes, carrots and squashes on hand. And you'll find herb plants, ready for your kitchen garden. There will be farm-fresh eggs as well. And of course, Good Morning Honey will have their bee-made products on hand. 

There are other staples available as well, such as... fresh bread at Prairie Mill Bakery or gluten free bread at Celebrate, Gluten Free. There are wonderfully buttery croissants & crunchy arlettes at Raspberry Cocoa for your breakfast or for your afternoon/after dinner tea. And decadent cupcakes at Sweet Stuff. There are intriguing homemade icecreasm at Back To Basics. And there are prepared jams, jellies and savoury sauces at Fruits of Sherbrooke.

Do you have a hankering for something Mediterranean (think Italy, Greece & Turkey)? There are pre-made items like dips at Theo's Greek Kuzina and Turkish food at Melodi's Kitchen. There are pastas... both regular and gluten-free at Back To Basics.

How about something Indian or Thai? Mini Kitchen will be here each week from now on selling frozen Indian and Thai food, prepared for your home table with favourites like butter chicken, coconut chicken and naan bread for dipping.

There's plenty of fresh produce available from our local greenhouses! TR Greenhouses and The Holden Colony will have cucumbers (large, long English and small sized, great for snacking & packing in lunches for the kids), tomatoes (including small, sweet tomatoes on the vine and my personal favourite... the incredibly chewy, meaty & unbelievably flavour filled zebra tomatoes) and peppers (sweet & hot).

Plenty of options are available for meat for your weekday meals, from whole chickens, lamb, cuts of beef and bison through to prepared sausages, deli meats and jerkies. Be sure to check out what is available this week... and remember, vendors like Greenstein Farm (lamb), Red Tractor Meats and Sunworks Family Farm all accept pre-orders which make your market shopping very simple.

Just go to our website (http://www.swefm.ca/meat-vendors.html), find their profile (in alphabetical order on our list) and click on their links to connect to their websites to place your order. Then, show up on wednesday and make your last stop at their booths, pick up and pay for your order, and head straight home to your fridges and freezers. There are also frozen fish items and bottled sauces to enhance your fishy meals at Food Direct.

For Your Wednesday Night "Dinner at the Market"

The food trucks are back again! Once again, expect to find delicious comfort food from the food trucks, those gourmet kitchens on wheels. Bully will be back, serving great, inventive foods that feature meat, bread, fruit  & veggie vendors at our market. Sailin' On will be back this week, and we'll have a new food truck with Big City Sandwich on site, introducing us to one more take on the whole food truck scene. Little Village will be on hiatus one more market, returning next week.  Fat Franks will be on hand serving hot dogs and cooked smokies & sausages. Desserts can always be found at Pink Kernel (ice cream, mini donuts, cotton candy), Sweet Stuff (cupcakes), Phil's Fudge, and soft icecream cones at The Butchers' Bus.

This Week's Line-Up

For information on these vendors, and the ones listed below, be sure to go to our website Browse Vendors By Category. There you will find excellent descriptions & eye catching photos of the vendors that come to our market & the products that they bring. Browse by category to find out more about the personalities behind the creations, the produce & the food items, and to find out what each vendor will be bringing to market. Please note that not all vendors you see here will be at EVERY market as some come part time (like when their items are in season, or once or twice a month, etc.).

You will be amazed when you see the wealth of creativity, the level of inspiration and the amazing quality of goods that will be at the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market... your neighbourhood market where communities, artisans and farmers all come together .... this season.

Artisans & Crafts People:
Ada's Soap Shop (natural products that do not irritate eczema: olive oil soap, soap shapes)
Expressions by Lori (custom fit women's clothing)
Hemperial Fidelis (soaps, lotions, natural bug spray (body/bath stuff), soy candles, 1/4" twine, raw hemp, hemp seeds, organic and pressed hemp oil)
Mod Shop Tots (Crocheted children's items, booties, cotton hats, hair accessories)
Orange Avocado (jewellery)
Jewels by Amy (crystal & silver jewellery)
Traveling Author, Lynn Link 
Vicki Sather Design (Hats, lampshades, pillowcase covers)

Baked Goods:

Celebrate Gluten Free (gluten free; flax bread, cheese buns & bread, multi grain bread, banana & lemon loaves, cookies, cupcakes, cinnamon buns, brownies)

El Mercado Tortillas (2 types of authentic Mexican corn tortillas)

Inked Cakes (sweet breads & loaves, brownies, bars & squares... formerly Robert's Loaves from Alberta Beach)

Moonshine Doughnuts (gourmet doughnuts in various flavours... formerly Heritage Baked Goods)
Prairie Mill Bread (organic, preservative-free bread)

Raspberry & Cocoa (Tea cakes, puff pastry, croissant, green tea)
Sweet Stuff Cakes (cupcakes)

Meat & Dairy:

Butchers' Bus (Sausage, smokies, pepperoni, pork or turkey jerky) 
Food Direct (fish)

Greenstein Farms (lamb, biweekly)

Red Tractor Family Farm (fresh, frozen meat) 
Sunworks Organic Farm (chicken, beef, prepared sausages)

Food Trucks & Concessions:
Big City Sandwich 
Bully Food Truck (gourmet comfort foods like mac & cheese, poutine, turkey burger, salad, pulled pork grilled cheese sandwich) 
Fat Franks (gourmet hot dogs, smokies & drinks) 
Original Canadian Kettle Popcorn (kettle corn, cotton candy, soft drinks) 
The Pink Kernel (mini donuts, cotton candy, shaved ice, kettle corn, lemonade, water, yo yo balloons)
Sailin' On (Vegan)

Fruits And Vegetables:

*** Note... many of our vegetable producers will be bringing plant starts, stored potatoes and garden plants to the first few market days until their produce is ready. Only greenhouse operators will have fresh vegetables like peppers, tomatoes, long beans and cucumbers at the early season markets. Fruit vendors do not start coming until mid June.

Dargatz Family Farm (produce, bedding plants, eggs, pickles)
Holden Colony (vegetables, pickles, salsa, garlic powder)

Riverbend Gardens (vegetables)
TR Greenhouses (veggies, jellies & salt)

Prepared Foods:

Back to Basics (frozen lasagna using fresh pasta including gluten free and vegetarian versions, homemade soup, homemade ice-cream & icecream sandwiches)

El Mercado Tortillas (2 types of corn tortillas) 

Fruits of Sherbrooke (jams, jellies & condiments)

Good Morning Honey (packaged honey in various sizes, beeswax candles, beeswax, lip balm, night cream)
The Mallow Fellow (gourmet marshmallows in 20 flavours)

Melodi's Kitchen (Turkish food)
Mini Kitchen (frozen, prepared Thai & Indian Food)

Phil's Fudge Factory (Fudge, fudge dipped apples)

Simply Supper (burgers, ribs & ready to go meals)

Theo's Greek Kouzina (prepared Greek food... like amazing tzatziki, humus & red pepper feta dips!!)

A Few Reminders:

Don't forget that the market has moved slightly to a new location... no longer hidden to the west of the rec centre, you will find the Southwest Edmonton Farmers' Market in the first parking lot, bordered by 23rd Avenue on its south side. Look for the signs, inflatable slide, flags and tents... you can't miss it.

Remember that there is always overflow parking to the west of the Terwillegar Recreation Centre, just follow the signs. Many of the parking lots between the west doors of the rec centre (down the arena hallway) and the Catholic High School (Mother Mary Margaret) are often virtually vacant.

Please drive slowly when visiting the Farmers' Market. Leger Road and the parking lots surrounding the Terwillegar Recreation Centre will have lots of people on foot at market time. There are 2 crosswalks that lead to the market location. Please be mindful of our traffic patrol volunteers.

Volunteers will be on site doing everything from answering questions, manning the Community & Info Tents, entertaining kids and directing traffic to schlepping things and directing people within the rec centre itself. Please be sure to give them a smile and thank them for helping to make our market such a community driven, friendly & inspired place to be.

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Contributed by Sheri Hendsbee