Sunday, August 18

Visit the market this Sunday to find the best in local produce, baked goods, artisan crafts, local spirits, and more!

Grab breakfast or lunch at Kara’s Crepes or Betty’s Corner.  Visit Green Coast Coffee for your Sunday morning cuppa.

Our last session of Yoga at the Market is happening this Sunday at 10am.  For the last class, they are offering a special buy one, get one ticket deal.  Purchase your $5 tickets for one hour of outdoor yoga, and bring a friend for FREE! Don’t forget to bring your own mat! Tickets Here!

Paint Star Party is joining us for a painting workshop at 10am.  Come create a masterpiece – no artistic experience necessary! Registration is required: Click Here for Tickets!

Join us at the Kids Craft Table to make paper plate jellyfish!

The Canadian Blood Services will be joining us in our Community Group area this weekend. Visit their booth to learn about the important services they provide.

Corey Primus is our musician this Sunday. Get a sneak peek of his music HERE, and catch him live at the market!

Vendors attending market this Sunday August 18 * please note this list is subject to change
  • A Bread Affair
  • Amazing FoodBC
  • Aslan Organics
  • Bali Bites
  • BCB HONEY FARM
  • Beckmann Berry Farm
  • Betty’s Corner
  • Ca Croustille Bakery
  • Canoe Cola
  • Central Park Farms
  • Chanthorn Orchids and Thai Curry Sauce
  • Chef Pieter
  • ClaywithVal
  • CraftWilder
  • Crisp Organics
  • Dee’s Jewelry Box
  • Dragon Mist Distillery
  • Forstbauer Family Natural Food Farm
  • fresh-N Home Products
  • Gabi & Jules Handmade Pies
  • Garys Kettle Corn
  • Gesundheit Bakery
  • Golden Ears Cheesecrafters
  • Green Coast Coffee
  • Hill Top Farm
  • Kara’s Crepes
  • Kics Gourmet Products
  • Kimi Designs
  • Langley Organic Growers
  • Mandair Farms
  • Mariner Brewing
  • Mediterra Soaps
  • Metate Bake Shop
  • Nature Pressed Juicery
  • Never Say Die Nursery
  • Pebblestone Publishing
  • PlantBase Food and Specialties
  • Quality Oak Accents
  • Rai Produce / Harvest Direct Farms
  • Redl’s Home Grown Beef
  • Reverent Acres
  • Rockweld Farm
  • Royal City Donuts
  • S & S Nursery
  • Simply Delish Artisan Enterprises
  • Solasta Chocolate
  • Sons of Vancouver Distillery
  • Sugar Free Kitchen
  • Sweet Thea
  • The Cawston Market Farmer
  • The Corn Shack
  • The Raw Guy
  • The True Nosh Company
  • Wah Fung Farm

Teaching Children Financial Literacy

What is Financial Literacy?

Financial literacy is the ability to understand how you make money, manage money, and spend money.

Financial Literacy for Children:

Early training and financial literacy help establish healthy money management behaviour for the future. Teaching children how to save, spend, and share helps them to understand that money is limited and must be managed properly. Furthermore, teaching children that money is earned through hard work teaches them that money is not free and helps them to understand how work and money are connected.

Financial Literacy in the POP Club:

Our Power of Produce Club teaches children ages 5-12 that they must do ‘work’ to earn money. Each week they are required to complete an activity, the two-bite club, and fill out their passports in order to earn their $3 POP token. Children can then decide how they want to spend their token, or they can learn to save their tokens for future fruit and vegetable purchases at the farmers market.

On Sunday, August 11 our POP Club kids will be learning about earning, saving, and spending with a Financial Literacy activity. Learn more about the POP Club here and visit us at the market to register.

The POP Club is a farmer’s market-based kids program. Children (ages 5 – 12 years old) will learn about fruits and vegetables, local food systems and healthy food preparation through fun activities all season long.

Each week children will earn a $3 market token to use towards any fruit or vegetable of their choice. There is no cost to participate and the program runs every Sunday rain or shine!

Corn at the Market!

Greetings market-goers!

To celebrate the corn harvesting season in B.C, the Coquitlam Farmers Market will be holding a small corn festival with a corn cooking demo and some fun corn facts at our next market, August 11th. Our local farmers will be bringing a selection of freshly harvested corn varieties for sale. Today’s blog is a showcase of some corn varieties brought for sale by our various vendors!

Peaches and Cream Corn

This distinctive variety is best known for its mix of yellow and white kernels. Enjoyed for its sweet flavor and tender texture,

peaches and cream corn is a variety to enjoy. B.C farmers plant this variety in the late spring and early summer, when warm soil temperatures and the moist, well-drained soil provide ideal growing conditions. Under full sun, it is one of the fastest maturing corn varieties, and goes from seedling to harvest in only 70 days. As such, it is generally available midsummer. A good starting crop for beginner corn growers!

At the Coquitlam Farmers Market, you can find the Peaches & Cream variety at Maan farms and Mandair farms. Stop by for a sweet treat!

Yellow Sweet Corn

Yellow Sweet Corn is the term for a group of general varieties that are bred for human consumption. Most corn species grown worldwide are

not suited for cooking, and are used in animal feed, oils or processed foods. Yellow Sweet Corn, however, contains a recessive mutation that turns the starch in the kernels to sweet sugar. Although this makes for a delicious, nutritious treat, the simple sugars more prone to decay and must be cooled right after harvest and eaten fresh.

Yellow Sweet Corn prefers temperatures between 60F and 100F in moist, well-drained soils. Harvest occurs in 60-100 days from a late spring or early summer planting. Make sure to enjoy this treat while it lasts!

General yellow sweet corn can be found at Crisp Organics.

Sunday, August 11

Visit the market this Sunday to find the best in local produce, baked goods, artisan crafts, local spirits, and more!

Grab breakfast or lunch at Gypsy Trunk Gourmet Fare.  Grab your Sunday morning cup of coffee from Brewnetti Cafe and a cool treat at the Rocky Point Ice Cream truck.

Join Karen Curtis at 10am to learn a new way to enjoy sweet BC corn.  Karen will be making a blueberry corn salad – the ultimate combo of summer flavours!

Join us at the Kids Craft Table to paint paper corn cobs!

Have you visited the Coquitlam Munch yet this summer? Visit them in our community group tent this Sunday to learn more about this great edible walking path in Austin Heights.

Larry’s Brother will be rocking some great tunes for us at the Market this Sunday! Get a sneak peek of his music HERE, and catch him live this weekend!

Vendors attending market this Sunday August 11 – please note this list is subject to change.
  • 3Js Smokehouse Ltd – Island Jerky
  • A Bread Affair
  • Amazing FoodBC
  • Anderson Distilleries
  • Aslan Organics
  • Bannock Queen
  • Beckmann Berry Farm
  • BobAli
  • Bowen Island Herb Salts
  • Brewnetti Cafe
  • Brigitta’s Pottery
  • Cedar & Oak Soy Candle Co.
  • Central Park Farms
  • ClaywithVal
  • Crisp Organics Ltd
  • Culture Kefir Co.
  • Delish Gluten Free Bakery
  • Food Migration
  • Food On The Grow
  • Forstbauer Family Natural Food Farm
  • Fume-eh Gourmet Foods
  • Gabi & Jules Handmade Pies
  • Gesundheit Bakery
  • Golden Ears Cheesecrafters
  • Gypsy Trunk Gourmet Fare
  • Hill Top Farm
  • Hoochy ‘Booch Kombucha
  • Juicily Ginger
  • Kics Gourmet Products
  • Kizzy’s Macarons
  • Langley Organic Growers
  • Maan Farms Estate Winery
  • Mama Bear Essentials
  • Mandair Farms
  • Mariner Brewing
  • Never Say Die Nursery
  • Occasionally Honey
  • Rai Produce / Harvest Direct Farms
  • Redl’s Home Grown Beef
  • Rockweld Farm
  • Rocky Point Ice Cream
  • S & S Nursery
  • Sriracha Revolver Hot Sauce
  • Stitches of Green
  • Sweet Thea
  • Tesfa Farms
  • The Cawston Market Farmer
  • Vlad’s Apiary
  • Wah Fung Farm
  • Warmerdam Flowers
  • Westwood Total Health

Summer POP Club – Week 15

Discover the Power of Produce and join the POP Club this Sunday!
August 11 – Week 15: This week POP Club kids will be learning about earning, spending, and saving their POP tokens with a Financial Literacy activity. This activity involves a worksheet that they can walk around with and complete as parents get their shopping done. Stop by the POP tents to sign in (or register) and get started on the activity. Don’t forget to participate in the 2 Bite Club and complete your passport to get your $3 token, redeemable on any fruits and vegetables in the market.
2 Bite Club: peach
The POP Club is a farmers market-based kids program. Children (ages 5 – 12 years old) will learn about fruits and vegetables, local food systems and healthy food preparation through fun activities all season long.
Each week children will earn a $3 market token to use towards any fruit or vegetable of their choice. There is no cost to participate and the program runs every Sunday rain or shine!