May 2018
Let’s Get Growing!
Taking some time over the Victoria Day weekend to put your veggie garden in the ground? Are you getting your patio planters purchased? After a slow start due to a cold April, Simcoe County farmers are hard at work and the local growing season is ramping up, so LET'S GET GROWING! Whether you're looking to fill a backyard plot or pots on your balcony, vendors at the Barrie Farmers' Market have vegetable transplants, potted herbs, flowers, and perennials for sale…
Find out more »Day of the Honeybee
May 26 is the Day of the Honeybee in Ontario and the Huronia Beekeepers Association will be at the Barrie Farmers' Market to answer all of your questions about these important pollinators and the people who take care of them. While you're at the market, be sure to pick up local honey and hive products like pollen, propolis tincture, and beeswax from Turnview Farm and Adam's Honey. Providing entertainment for the morning is Toronto musician Jimmy Pearson . As part…
Find out more »June 2018
Market Day
Lee and Steve are back at the market on June 2 to perform familiar covers throughout the morning. Also performing are the Northern Jewels Cloggers. Their dance troupe will be set up at the corner of Mulcaster and Collier Streets with performances taking places at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Take advantage of local food and artisan products every Saturday, all year long. The Barrie Farmers' Market keeps bringing fresh local goodness to the City Hall rotunda all the way through April.…
Find out more »Local Food Day / Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival
June 5-10 is Local Food Week in Ontario and the Barrie Farmers' Market is celebrating Local Food Day on June 9. As part of the celebration of local food and the people who grow, raise and produce it, we're holding a draw for $300 in market bucks! Collect ballots from every vendor as you shop at the market on June 9 and enter a draw to win one of three prizes with a top prize of $200! The more you…
Find out more »Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival
As part of the Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival, the Barrie Saxophone Quartet is performing at the market from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Take advantage of local food, plants, and artisan products every Saturday, all year long. The Barrie Farmers’ Market keeps bringing fresh local goodness to Mulcaster Street all the way through October. Stop in between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. and meet your local farmers, producers, chefs, bakers, and artisans, then wander downtown to take in the waterfront.…
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