{"id":51034,"date":"2019-10-09T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=51034"},"modified":"2021-02-12T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:18:51","slug":"just-like-its-popular-produce-the-calgary-farmers-market-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2019\/10\/09\/just-like-its-popular-produce-the-calgary-farmers-market-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like its popular produce, the Calgary Farmers Market is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tomato man:<\/strong> The Calgary Farmers’ Market bustles with business in southeast Calgary on Sept. 20, 2019. The Calgary Farmers’ Market will be opening a new location in 2021. (Photo by Emma Swanson\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T<\/span>he Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market<\/a> has plans to open a second 50,000-square-foot market in the northwest community of Greenwich by 2021.<\/p>\n

A<\/span>manda Langbroek, marketing and events specialist for the Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market, said that a second market is both \u2018\u2019wanted and needed\u2019\u2019 by Calgarians in the northwest.<\/p>\n

The decision to go for a second market was reached after test markets were run over the summer.<\/p>\n

Langbroek said in an interview that the initial pursuit of a second market \u2018\u2019felt a bit risky\u2019\u2019 because the Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market will be the first farmers\u2019 market in North America to have a second location.<\/p>\n

The Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market hosted a series of five pop-up markets near the construction site of the future Greenwich market on Greenbriar Way N.W. over the summer. Their last pop-up market was on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019We\u2019ve been really motivated by seeing how excited people are at the pop-up markets,\u2019\u2019 said Langbroek. \u2018\u2019People love these vendors.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Langbroek said that the second market will be able to meet the demand there is from the northwest for a closer location.<\/p>\n

The second market will be located across the Trans-Canada Highway from Winsport and will be 15 minutes away from downtown Calgary.<\/p>\n

The existing location is on Blackfoot Trail, just north of Heritage Drive S.E., and just west of the Deerfoot Meadows shopping area and Ikea.<\/p>\n

The new market will be bringing 75 per cent of businesses and vendors now in the existing market.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019We gave our vendors the first chance to express if they wanted to be a part of the second market,\u2019\u2019 said Langbroek, as they want to make them a priority in the \u2018\u2019current economic times.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019We\u2019re like a little family,\u2019\u2019 said Langbroek. “It\u2019s great to grow and expand with vendors that people trust.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Sascha Kalivoda, a partner of the Lotus Herbal Health<\/a> outlet at the Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market, said the second market will be \u2018\u2019very successful\u2019\u2019 because \u2018\u2019there is a big hole in the northwest.”<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019The market will be very successful and I\u2019m excited for it,\u2019\u2019 said Kalivoda.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to grow and expand with vendors that people trust. – Amanda Langbroek<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second market will also feature produce customers love, such as Gull Valley Growers\u2019<\/a> tomatoes.<\/p>\n

For the past 15 years, Dennis Pasenan, a southeast Calgary resident, has been visiting the Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market every Friday for the Gull Valley tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019I eat one tomato for breakfast every day, whether I need to or not,\u2019\u2019 said Pasenan.<\/p>\n

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Innisfail Growers:<\/strong> The Calgary Farmers’ Market in southeast Calgary on Sept. 20, 2019. The Calgary Farmers’ Market will be opening a new location in 2021. (Photo by Emma Swanson\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

Pasenan said that he will continue to buy his tomatoes at the southeast market because he likes it best.<\/p>\n

Langbroek said that although a second market is being opened, the southeast site will “always be renovated to our requirements.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The West Calgary Farmers\u2019 Market will be an \u2018\u2019iconic moment for Calgary,\u2019\u2019 said Langbroek, because it is designed to be a \u2018\u2019beautiful, new, and purpose-built\u2019\u2019 structure inspired by old Toronto and New York markets like the St. Lawrence and Chelsea Market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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