Join us this Sunday for our annual Salmon BBQ! The Coquitlam Farmers Market is so pleased to partner with Mossom Creek Hatchery to bring you this year’s Salmon BBQ! Join us for a day of music, games, and great food at one of the Market’s most popular events!
Place des Arts will be on-site offering free kids crafts! Be sure to also visit the Market’s Kid Zone to make a salmon necklace and play some fun games including fishing for prizes!
Purchase a delicious lunch with proceeds going to the Coquitlam Farmers Market and the Mossom Creek Salmon Hatchery! We will have salmon for $8 ($7 for market members), burgers, and portobello mushroom burgers for $6 ($5 for market members) all served with fresh market greens! Rocky Point Ice Cream will also be on-site for your after lunch dessert needs!
The POP Kids Club activity this week is all about encouraging financial literacy. Visit the POP tent anytime between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to pick up a $3 token, then go out into the market to check out pricing and get the most for your money. When you’ve done that, come back to the POP tent and show us what you bought! And, we’re celebrating the arrival of peaches in the Two-Bite Club!
We are happy to welcome Ranj Singh as our musician this weekend! His unique mix of Indo-Canadian Folk music and classic standards is always a welcome addition to our market!
Farmers markets are a great place to be able to learn about company’s that grow local food or make local food products with local ingredients.
Growing on the foundation their family began in 1902, sisters Jenna and Emma have branched off and created their own line of dairy products with Golden Ears Cheesecrafters.
We love the fact that we have a family heritage to keep growing and diversifying with. We’re building a sustainable future for our family farm in this community and bringing people back to food basics, they can literally watch their cheese being made. That experience is something people value.
Growing locally in British Columbia is important for the sisters. With some of the world’s highest quality standards, Golden Ears Cheesecrafters wants to educate consumers about their products and be transparent with their practices.
It is important for us to grow locally and sustainably because we like to know where are food is coming from…Certified Organic in most countries is equivalent to our conventional practices. Canada has the least amount of approved chemicals that can be used on crops.
So with an expanding business, why take on farmers markets? For Jenna and Emma, it’s all about the power of knowledge.
Farmers markets are a great place to learn about how your food is made or grown. You can talk directly to producers or farmers and there is transparency.
They say this knowledge can help consumers make the best decisions for their lifestyles, adding sourcing local reduces carbon footprints and supports the local economy.
Farmers markets are a great place to be able to learn about company’s that grow local food or make local food products with local ingredients.
Jenna and Emma say the more people know about provincial food industries the better. With the B.C. Buy Local movement no longer in its infancy, they believe consumers will become more aware of the high quality products, like the dairy produced by Golden Ears Cheesecrafters.
I see the B.C. Buy Local movement becoming more popular when sickness and diseases are happening because food being imported is not up to the standards that Canadian food processors or farmers have to meet. Canadian dairy is one of the highest standards in the world, farmers are not allowed to add any hormones, antibiotics of steroids to there milk. If they are caught they have to pay very high fines. No farmer can afford to have this happen or else they would all be out of work.
For Golden Ears Cheesecrafters, it is important to grow locally and sustainably because they, like many in this province, want to know where their food is coming from.
We would never make anything that we wouldn’t feed our family. Our goal was to produce a product that is healthy for everyone and that we could share with other families.
