Have No Fear

At Night of Dread, there’s always a chant about laughing at fear and death. We’ve got it relatively easy at the market; we just have to laugh at some puddles this week! Wear your rubber boots and enjoy them like a kid, and wear your Hallowe’en costume, too, if you like. We’ll have honey sticks for kids of any age who do.

ChocoSol has produced wonderful chocolate treats to share with your favourite tricksters!Meanwhile, our farmers continue to present a remarkable variety of produce. From way down south near Lake Erie, north almost as far as Georgian Bay, a little bit west and a long way east, they keep on pulling the most interesting and delicious things out of their fields for us!  I never imagined we’d see local lemongrass on offer (the bunch in the photograph above, and the hot peppers up top were on Shared Harvest‘s tables last week), and I wonder how many of us had heard of items like watermelon radishes before there was a market in the neighbourhood. We are a lucky bunch of eaters!”Everdale is bringing spinach, arugula, salad mix, bok choi, watermelon and daikon radish, green onions, kohlrabi, winter squash and a pile of more roots. Carrots, parsnips, celeriac, rutabaga, salad and purple top turnip, beets. Oh, and broccoli!!” Kyle

Last week for Earth & City! Thanks for the great food, gals!

Absences:  Urban Harvest, Island Oysters, and Waymac Mushrooms are away, returning next week.

Vendors this week:
Akiwenzies Fish (fresh, frozen and smoked Georgian Bay fish)
Ali Harris (fish sandwiches, fritters, hemp pesto, beverages, salads)
Bees Universe (honey and bee products, eggs)
Beretta Farms (natural and organic meats)
Best Baa/Ewenity Dairy (sheep’s milk, cheeses, yogurt and ice cream)
ChocoSol (coffee and chocolate, tortillas cooked at the market)
Country Meadows (olives, oil, eggs, cheese)
Culture City (fermented condiments, tempeh)
DeFloured (gluten-free baking)
Dufferin Park Bakers (wood-fired oven breads, soups,and snacks)
Earth and City (raw foods, smoothies, rice bowls) (LAST DAY!)
Everdale Organic Farm (organic produce)
Forbes Wild Foods (wild fruits & veggies and mushrooms, nuts, syrup, preserves)
JK Fries (fresh-cut french fries with choice of mayos)
Kind Organics (sprouts, salad mixes)
Knuckle Down Farm (organic vegetables)
Marvellous Edibles (organic vegetables, meats, poultry, baking, fruits)
Pine River Organic Farm (organic vegetables)
Plan B (organic produce)
Shared Harvest (organic vegetables and herbs)
Sosnickis’ Organic Produce (organic vegetables)
Spade & Spoon (jams, pickles, soups, maple syrup)
Tapioca Gourmet (soup and sandwiches)
Ted Thorpe (veggies and herbs)
Ujamaa Farm (formerly listed as Afri-Can Food basket) (veggies and herbs)
Urban Harvest (plants, seeds, body care, soil amendments)
VQA Wine (Tawse Winery again this week)

Visiting vendors: Liz Martin & Wayne Ellwood (apples)

We’re open from 3 to 7 every Thursday, rain or shine, all year long!