WELCOME BACK, FRIENDS! We are very excited to welcome familiar and new vendors and customers to the park this week. I hope there won’t be any lost souls wandering around the construction site that used to be our home. We will return there another year, but this season you will find us down by the […]

Dear Market Friends: So this is it! After May 12th, we are going to move all of the market’s worldly possessions into half a shed in the park (or almost all of them..or sort of close to all….Well, some of the market’s stuff, anyway.) Never mind, the market is about so much more than equipment, […]

We have two more online markets at the depot, and then we will bid a fond farewell to our hosts at St. Anne’s. Along with a big debt of gratitude to the whole St. Anne’s community for their willingness to give us shelter in a storm, we owe special thanks to the ever-patient Juli, Caretaker […]

Hello Market Friends: It’s exciting (and slightly daunting) that there are just 3 online markets before we move back to the park! In case you’re in need of more details:   In-person Market hours will be 3pm to 7pm every Thursday, at the SOUTH end of Dufferin Grove Park, at Gladstone Avenue, from May 19th […]

We’re shouting it from the rooftops: GOOD-HEARTED-LEVEL-HEADED-COMMUNITY-MINDED-WELL-INFORMED-PRO-ORGANIC-PEOPLE NEEDED!   You may have read our callout for new board members already, but in case you missed it, we’re including it again at the end of this newsletter. If you aren’t the right person, do you know someone who needs a little nudge to step forward? Please […]

Hello Market Community, Matt joining you this week. I’ve written here before about what’s beautiful and what’s strange at the market. The news this year has had a lot of updates from babies to branding to lambing to SEO to CEO’s and returning to the park. We’ve been covering every corner of what makes a farmers’ market community. But…have we missed the […]

Hello Market Friends,   There is a constant stream of numbers and statistics available on the subject of rising prices, some of them which should be contradictory, but unfortunately go hand in hand: Inflation is the highest it has been in 30 years; Companies are posting the biggest profits in more than 70 years. Huh? […]

We are tickled pink by the comments rolling in with our survey! If you haven’t shared your views yet, please don’t delay. There is lots to organize before MAY 19TH, (did we mention that is the first day of the Park Market Season?) and we are counting on you to tell us your thoughts about […]

First, I must tell you that it has been a busy week behind the scenes as our outdoor season vendors list takes shape, and the many assorted forms of paperwork required to hold a market in this town get ticked off the to-do list one by one. Nicole has been at the park, tape measure […]

While I write, a dusting of snow is falling, but the sap is running, and we can’t wait any longer to share our spring plans with you. After two years of putting huge energy into re-inventing the market, we are returning to the park on May 19th, 2022!  Like most things which are beginning again, […]