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The Stop's Green Barn Farmer's Market
Category: Food Farmers Market Farmers Market [Edit]
601 Christie StToronto, ON M6G 4C7
Neighbourhood: Wychwood
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
7 reviews for The Stop's Green Barn Farmer's Market
7 reviews in English
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Review from Tina H.
12/3/2011
This market is amazing. I remember when it started out with only a few vendors and now has grown something huge. I prefer this market over the craziness of Brickworks.
There is a wide array of vendors that sell natural and organic foods. Some of them deserve special mention.
(!) = as Nicki Minaj says "Exclamation, just for emphasis," i.e. amazing awesomeness I find hard to live without:
Green Gate Farms: They have a sign that says NATURALLY RAISED MEAT in yellow and red (can't miss them). I love all of their prepared meats: meat pies, summer sausage (!), double smoked bacon (!), breakfast sausages (!). I swore off pork before but these people make it very hard to say no! It's all naturally raised so I don't feel that bad! I make an exception for them.
Chocosol: They call it "chocolate food" instead of candy, because cacao is full of minerals and antioxidants, yadda yadda, whatever, I don't get it because it's healthy, I get it because it's delicious. Drinking chocolates and eating chocolates are delicious! My favourites are sinfully raw vanilla (!) for eating and a few similar ones for drinking. Get the 5-chili if you like spiciness. I can't recommend the goulash drinking chocolate (odds and ends, half price) unless you're really trying to save money because it's not nearly as good as their full-priced ones. I bought it once and wished I bought the goods.
Veggies galore: I'm sorry for not knowing the names of all of the farmers but there are always a good amount of veggies available.
Honey Pie Herbals: natural soaps, and glass jars of honey in the shape of bears (!)
Bizjak Farms: kinda pricey but excellent peaches (!) when peach season is around. They have other good things too sometimes (coronation or blue grapes, but watch out for seeds).
Kurtis Coffee: tasty hot and iced coffees. Fair-trade organic. Fresh. Smells divine. By the pound.
Stoddart Family Farm: naturally processed wool for all your knitting needs from their organic/naturally raised sheep. If you like knitting but don't like the idea of sheep being mistreated for their wool, it's a great idea to get wool here. Silvia's stall can't be missed as it is bright and colourful. I don't knit but I kinda wanna buy some and make my grandma knit me something.
Vicki's Veggies: Hot sauce (!) and veggies.
I feel like I'm forgetting some. Vendors are all pretty friendly (though not all of them). It's definitely worth waking up early for (even if you're hungover from TGIF partying).
Cash only. Bring lots so you're not sad that you ran out and can't get all the yumminess. I spend way too much money here. -
Review from Emily M.
4/24/2012
Open every Saturday from 8 am to 12 pm. Closes before noon!! Terrible hours.
Needs to be open till 1 or 2pm at least! -
Review from Zoe R.
10/8/2011 7 photos
I really enjoy coming here, though I know it as the Wychwood Farmer's Market (not The Stop's Green Barn...).
There are vendors who hit other weekly markets as well.
Prices are market-fair. No gluten-free hot spots, however.
My favourite place to get a large amount of green/yellow/purple beans for $4.50 is here (they are/were also at the Dufferin Grove Farmer's Market on Tuesdays). I have a new favourite spot to pick up round, light purple and white "Sicilian" eggplants. Not to be confused with the thicker-skinned dark purple "Italian" eggplants.
There's one place with doughnuts made with coconut oil. I've been tempted to try them ($5/dozen), but since when can doughnuts be "good" for us. Also, I stood there watching the little doughnuts float to the top... and found my body picking up the smell.
I will definitely be back here... I'm a farmer's marketophile, a sucker for organic good, and getting as close as I can to food sources.Listed in: 30-day challenge businesses
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Review from Ruth W.
Toronto, ON
10/20/2010
It's becoming a bit of a habit now to cycle to the farmers market at Wychwood Barns on a sunny Saturday morning. I just love the atmosphere - lots little kiddies running around, lots of cool young parents, lots of hippy/boho couples and then there's me - running round trying to eat as many of the samples I can get away with, without bringing too much attention to myself!
It's not big, probably about 20-30 stalls, but it's all top notch stuff. Last time I went, I bought a basket of apples, some curry chutney, shortbread biscuits and some pizza slices.
A lovely way to spend start a weekend. -
Review from Julianna B.
Toronto, ON
4/29/2009
The Artscape Wychwood Barns are the coolest thing to hit this neighbourhood in quite a while. Saturday mornings (8 am to 1 pm in the summer, 9 am to noon in the winter) several dozen farmers, artisans, chefs, and bakers set up shop in the bright, funky Covered Street Barn (#2). The doors on the north side lead into artists' housing, and there are local non-profits' offices in the building to the south.
There's a good diversity here; two families selling meat, several bakers, one or two cheesemakers, and a bunch of fruit and veggie sellers. Additionally, you can usually buy eggs, wool, beeswax, t-shirts, herbal mixes, lots of prepared foods, and get your knives sharpened.
Favourites: the Mennonite family's garlic sausages (NOM NOM NOM OH HAPPY HAPPY ME); St. John's bakery's Italian bread; the yam guy's soup; the most beautiful onions I've ever seen. I bet the cheese is fantastic, but it's too pricey for me.
That's my only problem - it ain't cheap. On the other hand, it's convenient, ecological, and you get to meet your neighbours as well as the vendors, who seem like cool people who produce things they really care about. -
Review from Andrea H.
4/18/2011
This is one of my favourite farmers' markets in the city. I first came here because I have a CSA meat and egg share from Stoddart Farms, and this is one of their Toronto drop-off points. While I like farmers' markets a lot and do as much as possible of my shopping at markets, Wychwood Barns stands out.
Wychwood is one of the bigger winter markets. I often shop at Dufferin Grove and Sorauren, both of which run with a handful of vendors through the winter - but these are trips to pick up a few items like bread or cheese. I don't expect to get most of my produce there. What makes Wychwood Barns different is not just the number of vendors but the variety of produce. Local food in the winter tends to be root-vegetable-heavy, and you can certainly get your beets, carrots, and yams here (in a number of heritage varieties, natch!) And you can get non-seasonal items like preserves, flour and baked goods, eggs (chicken AND duck), and meat. The meat alone is worth the trip for omnivores, as you can pick up anything from rabbit to pastured pork, the latter of which bears no resemblance to factory farmed pork at all. There are also wonderful sausages, both fresh and cured. Because some of the vendors have solar greenhouses, you can even find a few greens - although at $7 for a small bag, local spinach in early March is a pricey indulgence.
There are also community enterprises that bring in fair-trade goods like chocolate and coffee, and you can find non-food items like roving and hand-spun yarn, skin care products, and knitted items. And I've had amazing prepared food, like a rice-paper wrap filled with grains and fresh vegetables and freshly-pressed carrot-ginger flu-busting juice.
Wychwood Market is bustling and busy; the atmosphere is part of the attraction. A morning at the market followed by a home-cooked brunch of natural pork sausage with maple syrup, fresh eggs, heritage tomatoes (bought frozen from one of the farmers), sauteed sweet potatoes, and country bread - every ingredient from the market, down to the sheep's milk in the fair-trade coffee - is the best way I can think of to start a Saturday. -
Review from Diane R.
Toronto, ON
12/28/2010
One of the best farmers' markets in the City for quality, selection, and jovial atmosphere.
