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Westbank Farmers' Market
About Westbank Farmers' Market
The growing season here does its real work between early summer and the middle of autumn, when the benches and the valley floor turn out tree fruit, berries and field vegetables in quick succession. Markets are how a good deal of that harvest reaches people without a detour through a warehouse, and they run on a schedule set by the weather rather than by the calendar.
Westbank Farmers' Market gathers at 2484 Main St, in the older core of the west side where Main Street still carries the original commercial character of the town. Anyone coming down from the benches at Lakeview Heights, in from the hillside streets of Glenrosa and Smith Creek, or up from the quiet lakeside coves at Casa Loma will find it a short drive, and there is more at westbankfarmersmarket.com. It also sits within easy reach of the bridge, which matters in a city where a great many households cross the water every working day.
A market rewards a little preparation. Bring cash as well as a card, bring your own bags, and arrive earlier rather than later if you want first choice of what is on the tables. Outdoor markets live at the mercy of the season and the forecast, so it is sensible to check before making the drive in from further out, particularly at either shoulder of the year. Talk to whoever is standing behind the table, too: growers will tell you what is at its peak that week, what is about to finish, and what will sit happily on a counter rather than needing the fridge. Shopping this way takes longer than a supermarket run, which is rather the point of it.
Visiting Westbank Farmers' Market
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In the Westbank neighbourhood of West Kelowna.
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