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Come Celebrate Our Community’s Seniors!

Hey everyone – hope you all had a lot of fun at yesterday’s market – thank you Mother Nature for cutting the rainstorm short just before market opening!

And fun continues – next week, we are holding our special Seniors’ Market to celebrate our community’s most senior citizens!

Seniors, kick off the Kerby Centre Fall Senior Expo [...]

Be a Kid (Again)!

Come out this Wednesday with all your favourite kiddies, big and little, for our special Children’s Farmers’ Market Day.  We not only have the usual fantabulous balloons, The Bouncy Castle and face painting, but for this market, we are bringing in Cow Patti the Clown, and will have a scavenger hunt, mascots, and lots of [...]

épocas fantásticas en el mercado!

Wow, yesterday’s market was hot, hot, hot! Our sun and salsa farmers’ market drew over 1200 patrons, who tasted over 17 varieties of gourmet salsas, listened to some smoking live latin tunes, and of course, enjoyed our largest number of vendors at market to date!

Celebrity judges Jay Michi, Executive Director of the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community [...]

Salsa!

UPDATED!
Tomorrow’s weather forecast calls for Sun – and Salsa!

Hey everyone, get your tastebuds ready – the Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market is hosting its very own salsa tasting competition this Wednesday! As a ramp up to this weekend’s big Sun and Salsa Festival in Kensington, we are having over 17 of our vendors compete with their [...]

Farmers Market + Free Music Concert = Groovy Wednesday Night!

Today’s market only – not only do we have our usual bounty of local vendors, new with kettle corn, fresh peas, and cherries, BUT we have a free concert for you. If you haven’t already heard, it’s the first night of Toboggan Peninsula: Calgary’s Littlest Music Festival. This three-night series of concerts sandwiched perfectly [...]

Car Free Market this Wednesday!

This Wednesday, June 30, we are celebrating alternate forms of transportation with our Car Free Market! Walk, bike, skate, ride transit or carpool over to the Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market for some fun times.

Car Free Market Day Features:

View two short films, “To COSTCO and IKEA Without a Car” and “Sacred Pavement” at 4, 5, [...]

View from behind the balloons

After another week of Calgary coldness the weather finally cooperated to give us a warm day to kick off the market! Thanks to our wonderful vendors who attended yesterday – many of the produce vendors sold out, which is always great for them.  Many many people came out to see the new market and to [...]

People Pack Room for Farmers

If last night’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movie night was any indication, Calgarians are ready to actively participate in the local food movement. It was standing room only for the free screening of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. (Un)intentionally, lo-fi was the theme of the night, as the machines would not cooperate to allow [...]

Screening of The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Thursday, May 6, 2010 – 7 pm
North Social Hall at Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Centre 1320 – 5 Avenue NW

FREE ADMISSION

Come and watch the acclaimed documentary “The Real Dirt on Farmer John”

Learn about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) with guest speakers from:

Blue Mountain Biodynamic Farms
Eagle Creek Farms
Thompson Small Farm
NEW Oxyoke Farm

What [...]