Experience the Market like Never Before

The Calgary Farmers’ Market will be kicking off the summer with a party to celebrate the beginning of the local growing season. The event will showcase amazing food in an evening of sophistication.

Exclusive Menu Items
Bite Sized Items at Bite-Sized Prices
Live Music
Local Beer & Wine

The market will transform into a lounge with live music, candlelight, and the pouring of Wild Rose Brewery beer and Galileo Wines*. Guests will have the opportunity to taste their way through the market with over 25 vendors serving up exclusive items and old favorites in bite-sized portions with bite-sized prices. The market’s retail vendors will be open to provide guests with a rare opportunity for night market shopping.

The evening will include a competition between local food icons. John Gilchrist, Dan Clapson, and other local food bloggers and chefs will pair up with a market vendor to create a delicious new menu item exclusively for this event. Guests will belly up to try the tasty creations and vote for their favourite. The best dish will be crowned and all proceeds will go to the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank.

With Calgary’s culinary scene hitting the national stage, the Calgary Farmers’ Market wants to celebrate where it all started with the fresh and delicious fare from our Alberta soil. We invite you to join us to experience the market like never before.

So grab your pitch fork and dig in! “Taste the Market” will take place at the Calgary Farmers’ Market on Friday, June 21st from 6pm-9pm. Tickets are $20 and are available below through Eventbrite or at our Customer Information Booth Thursday-Sunday 9am- 5pm.*** Please note you must be over 18 years old to attend***

Experience the Market Like Never Before

The Calgary Farmers’ Market will be kicking off the summer with a party to celebrate the beginning of the local growing season. The event will showcase amazing food in an evening of sophistication including:

Exclusive Menu Items

Bite Sized Items at Bite-Sized Prices

Live Music

Local Beer & Wine

More Details:

The market will transform into a lounge with live music, candlelight, and the pouring of Wild Rose Brewery beer and Galileo Wines*. Guests will have the opportunity to taste their way through the market with over 25 vendors serving up exclusive items and old favorites in bite sizes with bite-sized prices. The markets retail vendors will also be open to provide a rare night market shopping opportunity for guests.

The evening will include a competition between local food icons; John Gilchrist, Dan Clapson, and other local food bloggers and chefs will pair up with a market vendor to make an exclusive item just for the evening. Guests will belly up to try the tasty creations and vote for their favourite. The best taste will be crowned and all proceeds will go to the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank.

With Calgary’s culinary scene hitting the national stage, the Calgary Farmers’ Market wants to celebrate where it all started with the fresh and delicious fare from our Alberta soil. We invite you to join us to experience the market like never before.

So grab your pitch fork and dig in! “Taste the Market” will take place at the Calgary Farmers’ Market on Friday, June 21st from 6pm-9pm. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased at http://tastethemarket.eventbrite.ca or at our Customer Infomation Desk.

*** Please note you must be over 18 years old to attend***

May long weekend is upon us, the sun is shining, tulips are poking through the felt-like-forever-frozen earth, seeds are going in the garden, and barbecues are being fired up. It’s Spring! It always feels like an eternity that we wait to shed our winter coats and get outside. And when it finally happens, we go hog wild. The Spring and Summer are so fleeting here in Calgary that we take every sunny opportunity to enjoy the beautiful produce and fresh fish, local meat, and poultry that the market has to offer.

Stop by the market this weekend and pick up all the fixing for a great barbeque. Check out our blog for a great burger and salad recipe:  http://blog.calgaryfarmersmarket.ca/2013/05/16/bbq-season-has-arrived/

Market Hours May Long Weekend:
Open Thursday- Sunday 9am- 5pm
Closed on Monday,Victoria Day.

We hope you have a wonderful May Long weekend and look forward to seeing you at the market.

Last winter, in an effort to provide a new experience to our guests, we tried our hands at offering tours of the market.  They were a hit and so, Karen Anderson of Calgary Food Tours will be offering a whole new round this year, starting Saturday, May 25th.  If you’re an adventurous person, if you’re new to Calgary or just visiting, if you and your friends are looking for a new way to explore the city and spend time together, or even if you’re looking for a unique gift, then you will love these tours.  The tours of the market are usually limited to 12 to 15 guests so that the atmosphere remains intimate and the chefs can provide an one-on-one experience.

Guests will join either chef Judy Wood, Pierre Lamielle, or a SAIT Culinary Instructor on a guided tour of the backbone of the Calgary Farmer’s Market: its farmers and ranchers.  You’ll learn the background of what it takes for each of these vendors to bring their produce to market each week and taste samples as you tour.  At each stop your chef leader will see what’s on offer and give you suggestions of how to pick the best and what to do with it once you get it home in the kitchen.

You’ll recieve a welcome gift, a coupon from the Calgary Farmer’s Market, product samples, and tastings as you tour.  A small meal at the end of the tour is also provided, and an e-booklet of Market recipe ideas from Calgary Food Tours owner, Karen Anderson.

To buy tickets for the 2013 Chef Guided Tours of the Calgary Farmers’ Market, click on this link: Tickets for Chef Guided Tours of the Market
Saturday, June 8th: 9 – 11am with a SAIT Culinary Instructor

Saturday, June 22nd: 9 – 11am with Judy Wood

Saturday, July 20th: 9 – 11am with Pierre Lamielle

Sunday, July 28th: Farm Tour of Innisfail Growers

Saturday, August 10th: 9 – 11am with Pierre Lamielle

Saturday, August 17th: 9 – 11am with Judy Wood

Saturday, August 24th: 9 – 11am with a SAIT Culinary Instructor

Saturday, September 14th: 9 – 11am with a SAIT Culinary Instructor

Saturday, Septebmer 28th: 9 – 11am with a SAIT Culinary Instructor

Saturday, October 12th: 9 – 11am with a SAIT Culinary Instructor

Saturday, October 26th: 9 – 11am with Judy Wood

Enjoy Live Music in the Food Court!
We’re happy to have Sahara Jane performing Saturday May 4th from 11am - 1pm.
“Sahara Jane is all about a good present moment. She fills a room with delight, with humour and a sweet voice that catches you unaware and brings you to wonder. Her latest CD ‘Lonesome Sky’ brings full production to heartfelt songs; songs of the open road, of love and of trains. You can feel her easy command of the guitar and sense her strong insight in her finely crafted songwriting and arrangements.”

http://www.saharajane.ca/

We recently partnered with Julie Van Rosendaal to launch a free cookbook swap library at the market. This is a great resource and invites you to come and drop and swap a cookbook. The library opened on Thursday April 4th 2013 in our NE Entrance to a lot of excitement and we already need to restock.
If you have cookbooks that you have loved but no longer need, we would really appreciate if you could donate them to our little library. Feel free to bring them to our Customer Information booth during our regular business hours Thursday – Sunday 9am- 5pm.
We hope this cookbook swap library will help inspire new ideas in your kitchen and give once loved cookbooks a new life and a new home.
If you have any questions feels free to email us at info@calgaryfarmersmarket.ca.
Thank-you for your generosity and see you at the market!

Come and get a taste of Top Chef Canada at the market this weekend. We’re so happy to have Top Chef Contestant Nicole Gomes at the market demonstrating how to make a Truffled Mushroom Risotto. Join us this Saturday April 6th at 12 noon for a Top Chef Demonstration and sample of her delicious dish.

If that does not fix your Top Chef craving then join Nicole and all her supporters for a VIP viewing of Episode 4 of Top Chef Canada in support of the Canadian Cancer Society. Food and drink will be provided.

Monday April 8, 2013
6pm-8:30 pm
Tickets are $25
Willow Park Wine and Spirits.
To buy tickets call 403.296.1640 ext 277
Or buy Online with Eventbrite.ca Search “team nicole 4”

Easter Hours

We ‘re open Thursday-Sunday 9am- 5pm. We will be open regular business hours on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Please note some vendors will be closed on these holidays. 

Easter Events
Easter is one of our favourite times of the year here at the market.  It’s time spent with family, happy squeals of children finding sweet hidden treasures, and the beginning of our local growing season!  There’s a lot happening at the market this Easter, join us as we celebrate Spring.


Eggstraordinary Easter Fun
Join us at the market on Saturday March 30th for lots of free and fun Easter activities:
.•Easter Egg Decorating 9am-2pm
•Photobooth with the Easter Bunny 11am-2pm
•Easter Bunny Hunt Game 9am-2pm

Pysanky:The Art of Ukranian Easter Egg Decorating
We’ re happy to have Daena Diduck at the market exhibiting her beautiful talent for Pysanky or Ukranian Egg Decorating. She will be market selling her beautiful creations on March 23rd, 24th, 28th-31st.

Daffodil Days
April is Daffodil Month, a time to celebrate spring and to unite and fight back against cancer. We’re proud to have the Canadian Cancer Society at the market from March 28th- 31st for Daffodil Days. During Daffodil Days, volunteers will be selling daffodils for $6 a bunch. Daffodil pins will also be available for a donation. Come out and show your support.

For more information on these events please check our Events Calendar

Hoppy Easter!

Join us this spring for fresh food and fun activites.

St.Patricks Day Events
http://www.calgaryfarmersmarket.ca/community/events/2013/03/17/

Easter Events
http://www.calgaryfarmersmarket.ca/community/events/2013/03/30/

We look forward to seeing you at the market.

Stop by the market in March to pick up these local items:
Potatoes
Parsnips
Squash
Cabbage
Carrots
Beets
Beef
Elk
Chicken
Pork
Bison
Cheese
Butter Lettuce
Cucumber
Duck
Greens
Tulips
B.C Apples.

We look forward to seeing you at the market!