2 Greek Gals was established in 1997. I was diagnosed with breast cancer, while on chemotherapy and radiation a friend and I decided to cook Greek Food and sell it at farmers markets, Christmas markets, catering, etc. We managed to do a couple of markets and my 6 months of chemo and radiation finally finished. Sad, but my friend no longer wanted to do it. I always had a passion for cooking and baking so I decided to continue. I was invited to join a market for the summer, before I knew it I was doing 4 markets a week. In 2002, The Calgary Farmers Market was born and 2 Greek Gals turned into a family business. Here we are today with a profitable business. I’ve always said, “Have passion for what you do,” and “Cook with your heart and you shall succeed.”

Established in 1981, Alpine Sausage is a family-owned meat shop and importing company with a Danish influence and contemporary taste. We believe in using quality meat from local producers and are part of the 100-mile radius movement, which helps reduce the carbon footprint of our products. Our locally sourced meats are free-range, dry-aged, hormone and antibiotic free – beef, chicken, turkey and pork. In addition to our top-quality fresh meat counter, we also make over 200 meat products in-house, including all deli meats, sausages, burgers, jerky and charcuterie. Our products are lower in salt than their commercial counterparts and contain no gluten, soy, starches, binders or fillers. It’s just meat and spice – like it should be.

Calgary Heritage Roasting Company is built by the wilderness that drives it. We meticulously marry fresh and bold coffee with the urge to explore. The company found its inspiration over a percolated cup of coffee on a backpacking trip one morning in the rolling hills of Alberta, Canada. Our methods and values were forged from our experiences as wildland firefighters. Since then, the company's foundation continues to grow and evolve during backyard BBQs, weekend mountain adventures, cold ones with friends and late nights under star-filled skies. Like our beans, the love grew naturally. Through experimentation and time we learned more about the art of coffee roasting.  We knew we had something special. CHRC is the home-grown, outback, rugged, mountain-fresh, clear skies sort of thing that Alberta is all about.  It's here our story truly begins. Calgary Heritage Roasting Company believes in active collaboration, giving back to the community, and getting back to nature. It’s about time your coffee tasted as wild as you are. Stay Wild!

The Cherry Pit began in 1995 with two small tables at the Canmore Farmer's Market. Founder and Owner Sharla Dube filled those tables with fresh BC fruits and Alberta Vegetables direct from the growers as a respite from her hectic day job. Today, Sharla's fresh fruits and vegetables fill more than 2,400 square feet of space at the Calgary Farmer's Market. We have created a cold press juice line called Better Fresh by using all our locally fresh produce. Our Vegetable butchers are making farm fresh salads and easy to use fresh cut meal kits to make our lives easier. We take Eat Better Live Better seriously to make our lives BETTER...

Chinook Honey Company & Chinook Arch Meadery - A hobby that became a passion and then a business, Chinook Honey Company was founded in 2004. Always devoted to giving the best care to our bees, 2004 was the year we opened our boutique farm shop to customers who wanted to buy pure, raw honey from their local beekeeper. Since then we have also been producing many different items using the liquid gold including jams, jellies, sauces and even honey wine (mead). For a full retail experience we also sell beeswax candles, honey body care and apitherapy products as well as other items related to bees or honey. To ensure the best products and customer service we prefer to work directly with our loyal followers instead of selling wholesale. That includes sales to Calgary area restaurants and discerning liquor stores in southern Alberta.

Glamorgan Bakery has been baking for families since 1977. We believe that all families should be able to serve a fresh product that contains simple, basic ingredients. Whether you need to have buns for a family meal, sausage rolls for your lunch box, cheese buns to bring to an event, or cake for a special occasion, we will gladly take your order and prepare it for you. We are famous for our cheese buns but we have over 150 other products that we have prepared on-site. Our mission has always been to serve a fresh product that uses real ingredients like butter or whip cream to the households in our community. We encourage you to try the difference that fresh baking makes. It is one of the simple pleasures in life.

Gull Valley Greenhouses is a family-owned and operated greenhouse just south of Gull Lake in Central Alberta, run by Phil, Carolyn, Levi and Carmen Tiemstra. Before the greenhouse, Phil was following in his father’s footsteps by raising chickens, but said he needed something more challenging. Gull Valley Greenhouses was started by Phil and Carolyn in 1991 and was just under half an acre in size. Over the years, the business has continued to succeed and today houses four acres of greenhouse space – the latest acre being equipped with LED lights to accommodate year-round growing. In those early days Gull Valley Greenhouses started out growing beef steak tomatoes, but the Tiemstras continue to diversify, now offering about a dozen different types of high-quality tomatoes. Offering fresh, locally grown and sustainable produce has been a passion of the family since day one – a principle that has carried throughout the business to the present day. For the Tiemstras, they take pride in their operation, and it’s rewarding for them to know that people are enjoying a high-quality, nutrient-filled, tasteful product. Gull Valley Greenhouse’s produce can be found at the Gull Valley Growers booth at the Calgary Farmer’s Market.

Lakeview Bakery has been providing Calgary with delicious and nutritious breads, buns and desserts for the past 30 years. If you have special dietary requirements we can provide you with consistently tasty options. We carry a variety of choices, including gluten-free, low-carb, diabetic, organic, dairy-free, yeast-free and egg-free baked goods. Lakeview Bakery also carries other products including snacks, pasta, crackers and chocolates. Our organic choices include Spelt, Kamut and Stoneground bread, buns, bagels and pizza shells. Recipes are developed and perfected in house by our dedicated and talented team.

What happens when two chefs come together to raise sheep? You get the best tasting Lamb available in Alberta. Ray and Nancy Nolan are professional chefs by trade who have prepared many delicious dishes for customers of high-end establishments like the Dorchester Hotel in London England, the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, and Hyatt Regency Hotel in Calgary. They know what good lamb should taste like!  You can purchase whole lamb, special mixed packages or individual cuts of lamb directly from Best of Calgary Foods. Check out our website for tried and tested lamb recipes and videos featuring life on the farm.  Lambtastic Farms has a special recipe for pure premium Alberta Lamb! www.lambtasticfarms.com

Premium bison meat, sustainably ranch-raised on Canadian grasslands. The product you purchase from Noble Premium Bison™ is made with care—by people committed to providing you with a superb eating experience. In the purest sense, we produce tender, lean and flavorful meat free of additives, antibiotics and hormones, using restorative ranching practices.  

Cheese is a wonder to us at peasant cheese, with its many faces, flavours, and textures. Made by young and old, in batches small and large, coming to us through the centuries from humble roots where necessity was the greatest inventor. No wonder we love it! with an ongoing selection of around 125 cheeses and over 30 years combined experience between our mongers, we are sure to find a cheese that is just right for you.

Pie Cloud’s food philosophy embraces everything pie; our range is sweet, savory and sublime. Our savory menu, for example, includes many of the kinds of pie that people hope and expect to find at any pie place, including a great steak 'n ale pie in traditional pastry as well as items for the more adventurous, like slow-smoked BBQ pork on cornmeal crust and mac and cheese pie. Sweet pie offerings include an ultimate apple, lemon meringue, luscious lime, banana cream and perfect pecan, supplemented by seasonal flavors that change all the time and utilize whatever ingredients are very best at the moment. We also dream up over-the-top inventions that push the boundaries of pie, coming up with new flavors and fanciful art pies that turn this most traditional of pastries into sublime surprises. Everything is hand-crafted with no shortcuts, be it pie crust, creamy custard, or fresh fruit filling. We are unabashedly best friends with butter and cream and are all about fresh, seasonal, and scrumptious, done right.”

Margaret, our Chief Soup Officer started her business more than 30 years ago; being gluten intolerant herself, she was determined to make soups that everyone could enjoy, using fresh market ingredients. As a result, Margaret pioneered the gluten free movement here in Calgary. All our soups are made from scratch in an Extreme Kitchen by our chef. Margaret says: “We don’t sell soup, we sell happiness in a bowl.”

We think of Soffritto as a little store with big heart. We’ve packed a lot of amazing products into our space, and we’re always there to help you find the hidden gems. We produce many ready-made meals and have 70 different Olive oil / Balsamic vinegar options. We also make fresh pasta EVERY day!

Sweetsmith Candy Co. is a 100% woman-owned business that creates trendy candy bar products with beautiful gift packaging options and great tasting sweets. Everything we make is handcrafted with traditional candy making techniques with bold, modern flavours. Some products are Sugar-Free and Keto for healthy options, and we also offer Gluten Free, Soy Free, and Vegan Options.

Tea Trader opened in Inglewood in early 1994 – the first tea retailer in the city. From that time, we have been supplying our customers in Calgary as well as elsewhere in Canada and U.S.A. by mail order. We import our teas from source and have established suppliers in India, China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Britain and Germany.  Our long-established contact with suppliers and access to samples of new teas allows us to choose good teas when they become seasonably available.  We stock a wide selection of loose leaf tea, many varieties being organic – house blends, single estate Indian teas, white/green/oolong/pu erh teas from throughout China, herbal infusions and more. Whatever your taste, enjoy your tea!

Our Thai Curry Kits include everything you need to make a fresh, authentic Thai Curry at home in 20 minutes. The pastes are kept at a mild spice level but there are chilies in the Kit if you're the spicy type.  Keep them stocked up in your freezer for those last minute dinners and meal planning.  Put the Kits in the freezer, cook them up with any meat and/or veggie you like and then freeze them again for quick lunches. Each paste is made up of over a dozen whole ingredients (no additives, preservatives or fillers) that we peel, cut, chop, roast and blend in food processors.  The additional ingredients to make our recipes (such as palm sugar, fish sauce and tamarind juice) are repackaged by us to suit the quantities needed to make our recipes. We've been in Farmers Markets, Christmas Shows and Fundraisers through Calgary and area for 12+ years and have been so very well received and, we're so excited to be working with BOCF.  

Torill’s Table is a Calgary based company founded by Torill Myre, a local female entrepreneur. Based on a traditional Norwegian recipe, Torill developed her own waffle mix here in Calgary to be both delicious, and healthy – made with whole wheat flour, oatmeal, flaxseed meal and ground almonds, Torill’s Table waffles are definitely a comfort food with real health benefits. However, the scent alone wafting throughout your house will bring them to the kitchen. Our unique Norwegian spice blend is that of true comfort and joy. Easy and versatile, Torill’s Table Norwegian waffle mixes can be made into traditional Belgian style waffles as well as pancakes. At the heart of Torill's recipes and philosophy of bringing loved ones together around good, healthy food, is the Norwegian concept of Kos.

We are a family owned business established since 2004, committed to providing authentic Mexican food products.  Our meals are made in small batches from scratch, with high quality local, organic and natural ingredients carefully selected, free of GMO, pesticides and hormones.  Our products vary from our oven fresh authentic tortillas to our signature salsas and meals to go. Large selection on Gluten Free meals and imported products.

Ukrainian Fine Foods has been serving delicious Ukrainian foods to Albertans for over 30 years. Cabbage Rolls, Perogies, Kubasa, Borscht and much more is now available delivered right to your door. With a strong emphasis on using only natural ingredients, we want you and your family to know our products are simply made just like at home. We look forward to serving you with home delivery.

Some of the best things happen over beer. Ideas are born, friendships forged, deals struck. Village Brewery began that way too, with friends sharing beers and dreams for a community brewery. A brewery that would support Calgary’s artists and craftspeople. A brewery that would create the excellent ales and lagers our friends and neighbours deserve.