April 2

Join us this Sunday at the Port Moody Winter Farmers Market! Be sure to visit our vendors both indoors and outdoors.

Come to the market hungry and grab breakfast or lunch from Gypsy Trunk Gourmet Fare or Hunger Management.

We’re happy to welcome Jana Seale to market as our musician this weekend! Jana has been performing at our markets for many years, and is a customer and vendor favourite!

We’re making paper umbrellas at the kids craft table this Sunday! Pick from colorful cupcake liners to create a few fun umbrellas. Even though we’re making umbrellas, we’re still hopeful for a sunny day!!

Tri-Cities Daffodil Dash is our community group this weekend. Visit their table to learn more about this fun, local event that benefits the Canadian Cancer Society.

Vendor List for April 2

See you at the market!

March 26

Join us this Sunday at the Port Moody Winter Farmers Market! Be sure to visit our vendors both indoors and outdoors.

Come to the market hungry and grab breakfast or lunch from Hunger Management or This Little Piggy food trucks.

This Sunday is Member Appreciation Day! Not a Member, find out more and sign up here! Members can enjoy the following Member-Only Specials:

  • A Bread Affair: $1 organic baguette (1 per customer)
  • Culinary Blossom: 10% off
  • Foster Naturals: Dry winter skin repair! All lotions – $25 (Reg. $30)
  • Georels: Bone Broth – 3 for $40
  • Gesundheit Bakery: Save $1 on a purchase of $5 or more
  • Hunger Management: FREE drink with sandwich order
  • Ildiko Jewelry: $10 off any earring and necklace combo
  • Jam Shack Preservery: 10% off
  • Jam’n Music: 4 small jars of jam – $17
  • Kimi Designs: 10% off
  • Kizzy’s Macarons: 1 FREE macaron with purchase of a box of 5 or more
  • Redl’s Home Grown Beef: Short Ribs – 20% off
  • Rockweld Farm: Wing special – Buy 1 package, get the 2nd half price
  • Sweet Thea: $1 off any granola bar purchase
  • Wild West Coast Seafood: $3 off Spot Prawn and Sidestripe Shrimp 1lb packs.

We are celebrating Nutrition Month at market this week! Local Dietitians Kaitlin Berris and Lillian Yin will be on-site all day to answer your nutrition questions. They are prepared to talk about anything including picky eaters, food issues, cutting back on salt, and more! Join them at their booth at 11am and 12:30pm for cooking demonstrations of some easy and healthy dishes!

Our Nutrition Month event carries over to our Kids Craft Table this week as we celebrate the Superhero of your meal plate – the vegetable!! Make some fun caped-crusader veggies to take home with you!

Relay for Life Coquitlam will be our community group at market this Sunday. Visit their table to learn more about their event, take a photo with their Instagram frame, and pick up some fun items!

Vendor List for March 26

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March 19

Join us this Sunday at the Port Moody Winter Farmers Market! Be sure to visit our vendors both indoors and outdoors.

 

Come to the market hungry and grab breakfast or lunch from Gypsy Trunk or This Little Piggy food trucks.

 

We’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day well into the weekend with our musicians, Small Potatoes, this Sunday! This musical duo plays fiddle, banjo, whistle, harp and voice (but not all at the same time) to weave a traditional sound in jigs, reels and ballads.

 

Join us at the kids craft table on Sunday to plant a seed.  Plant your seed to take home to nurture into a seedling that can be a star in your summer garden!

 

ParticipACTION is celebrating Canada’s 150th through their 150 Play List. Check out our community group table to find our how to participate – like signing up for a free dragon boat class – and pick up some fun ParticipACTION gear!

 

See you at the market!

 

Vendor List for March 19

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Get to Know: ILDIKO JEWELRY

Ildiko Jewelry – Written by Anne Ladouceur

Ildiko loves all aspects of silversmithing, something she discovered after stumbling into enjoying making wirework jewellery by picking up a job in a bead shop one summer just for fun. Encouraged by her husband, who saw her frustration in being limited with the commercially made components available for her jewellery designs, she enrolled in a 12 week basic silversmithing course exactly 8 years ago. Ildiko admits she wasn’t the best student as she couldn’t wait to be hands-on right away and jumped at the chance to be in the first group to solder in her third class. She was such a natural that her classmate, a woman who was taking the course for the second time just to have access to the tools, asked for Ildiko’s help in soldering a pair of cufflinks. It was in that moment that Ildiko realized she had a knack for soldering and was hooked.  Realizing it would be some time before she could solder again in the class (16 students and 4 torches), she and her husband (who loved the excuse to buy cool new tools!) went out and bought all the supplies she would need to make sterling silver jewellery the next day, from torches to hammers.

One of the first pieces she ever made was a chunky circle linked toggle bracelet. She improved the design by making the bar a little longer, so that it was still easy to use but would not accidentally slip out while being worn.  This design was a success and she still wears that durable bracelet today.

Ildiko is a Hungarian name that means ‘Warrior Princess’ and Ildiko feels that she was very aptly named as her art involves hammering and working silver into gorgeous pieces of jewellery almost every day.

Explore more of her work at www.ildikojewelry.com

 

March is Nutrition Month!

Did you know March has been dubbed “Nutrition Month” for over 30 years!? The primary purpose of the campaign was to increase public awareness about the importance of healthy eating by identifying dietitians as the most credible source of food and nutrition information. 

This year we are partnering with the BC chapter of Dietitians of Canada to bring you “Take the Fight out of Food: Spot the Problem, Get the Facts, Seek Support”!

On March 26th find your local dietitians’ booth at the market to get the facts and receive support in:

  • A balanced plate, one-dish meals for your family: Cooking demonstration and take home recipes.
  • How to use herbs and spices, taking the pressure off the salt shaker: Cooking demonstration and handouts.

Dietitians Kaitlin and Lillian are thrilled to join us at the market to help celebrate and excite local families on all things Nutrition!

It is bound to be a fun and educational event; take it from us, you don’t want to miss out!

March 12

Join us this Sunday at the Port Moody Winter Farmers Market! Be sure to visit our vendors both indoors and outdoors.

Come to the market hungry and grab breakfast or lunch from Hunger Management.

 

We’re happy to have John Bowman as our musician this Sunday. John is a singer and guitarist and performs at many markets in the Lower Mainland. John is also one of our valued market volunteers, and it’s always a treat to have him at market as our musician!

Join us at the kids’ craft table to make cupcake liner turtles! Create traditional looking turtles, or maybe create a new breed of polka-dot or flowered turtles!
We are so pleased to have the Tri-Cities Daffodil Dash as our community group this week!  Visit their table to find out more about this important family-friendly fundraising event that benefits the Canadian Cancer Society.
See you at the market!