About

The SFU Pocket Farmers Market and Coquitlam Farmers Market are pleased to announce another exciting market season!

Details:

When: Every Wednesday  (May 13 – October 28)

Time: 12-5pm

Where: Town Square (by Cornerstone and the upper bus loop)

What: A community space with a wide range of delicious food options:  local/organic fruits and vegetables, freshly baked bread, delicious jams, honey, salsa, eggs and more! Live musical entertainment and educational activities make the market the perfect place to get to know your community, learn more about your role as a consumer in sustainable food systems and have fun!


What’s for sale?

Fresh Produce:

  • Langley Organic Growers: With the goal to feed and educate present and future generations by co-operatively holding, stewarding and sustainably farming their land, LOG is committed to bringing you high quality, local organic produce.
  • Floralia: Located in Abbotsford, this conventionally run farm offers fresh, affordable produce.

Delicious Preserves:

  • Glen Wood Preserves: Located in Langley, Glen Wood has dill pickles with garlic, spicy dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, and a variety of jams and jellies, including strawberry rhubarb jam, blackberry jam,  and hot red pepper jelly
  • Momma Nellies: Homemade salsa made in Burnaby, BC with no thickeners, no fillers and no artificial flavors. Available in four “heat” levels: not hot at all, not hot, just hot, and really hot.

Honey:

  • Vlad’s Apiary: Located in Maple Ridge, Vlad’s Apiary produces and markets high quality local honey and other related products.

Freshly baked bread:

  • Gesundheit Bakery: European style bread, buns, strudels and cheese pretzels are freshly baked each morning without the use of sugar, oil or preservatives.  Gesundheit Bakery is located in Abbotsford, BC.
  • A Bread Affair: Hand crafted, organic, flavourful artisan breads made in Langley, BC. They make bread the same way that bakers perfected their craft 100, 500 and even thousands of years ago. And it shows in every loaf.


Refreshing Drinks:

  • Kic’s Lemonade: Syrup made with all natural ingredients, it’s the best lemonade you will ever try! Buy it by the cup at the market or by the bottle to take home.

Free Range Organic Eggs

  • Langley Organic Growers: Free-range organic eggs from ethically raised chickens

Nature’s Garden Organic Deli

  • Nature’s Garden Organic Deli: A variety of organic baked goods, homemade pies, and other delicious treats!


Why the “pocket”?

Different from a regular farmers market, the SFU Pocket Farmers Market is a pocket market because it is smaller than a typical farmers market and because we sell the product so the farmers don’t have to leave the field! The food sold at the market is obtained from local farms and sold on behalf of the farmer, lessening the burden to attend multiple markets, increasing the economic viability of local food production by creating new avenues for distribution, and broadening access to fresh, local food within the community.


Supporters:

The SFU Local Food Project is generously funded by Environment Canada’s EcoAction program, the Sustainability Advisory Committee, the SFU Community Trust and supported by the Centre for Sustainable Community Development and Sustainable SFU.