CED Profile: Le Marché St. Norbert Farmers’ Market

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Organization: 
The Canadian CED Network

This is one of the Canadian CED Network's CED in Manitoba Profiles Project produced 50 stories of Manitoba communities working to build fairer and stronger local economies, reduce poverty, and revitalize neighbourhoods

In 1988, on a sunny day in July, eight vendors met on a lawn in St. Norbert to sell their wares. Since that modest beginning, this “make it, bake it, grow it” market has grown into a non-profit co-operative with 130 full-time vendors and as many as 50 casual vendors.

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Year: 
2011
Format: 
Document
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Co-operatives
Food Security
Tourism
Source: 
CCEDNet

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