Local Garden is North America's first ever vertical garden farm in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Built on the rooftop of a Richards Street parkade, Local Garden produces up to 3500 pounds of fresh healthy greens a week throughout the year. That’s as much production as a 5 acres farm, but they do it in a concrete structure in a 6000 square foot area.
How do they do it? Local Garden’s patent pending vertical growing technology requires 92% less water than conventional field farming practices and produces a bounty of greens without the use of any pesticides, right in our downtown core.
Visit: www.localgarden.com
Vancouver Island Salt makes all natural and unrefined salt, hand harvested from the cold Pacific waters of Vancouver Island BC. Salt is remarkable in that it absorbs flavour and color from other substances it comes into contact with; the skill and creativity of the professional chef who started the company results in a variety of flavours such as maple smoked. These are artisan salts for home cooks who want to spice up their dishes, home gourmets and professional chefs.
Visit: Vancouver Island Salt
The foundation for this growing line of small-batch, quality-focused ingredients are artisan craftsmen, boutique producers, sustainable farms and innovative chefs. Noble Handcrafted is a brand that embraces the collaboration of craft with the pioneering of our new American food tradition.
The company that makes Noble Handcrafted, Mikuni Wild Harvest, focuses on the development of a boutique line of sustainable wild foods. Their company was started by mushroom foragers and their company history shows their commitment to sustainability.
Visit: Mikuni Wild Harvest
Pok Pok Som is a drinking vinegar handcrafted in Portland using natural flavoring, organic cane sugar and quality natural vinegars. Pok Pok has been serving these vinegars since 2005, both diluted with soda water as a soft drink and at full strength as a mixer in several of its house cocktails.
Drinking vinegar for health reasons is an age old practice in many cultures around the world including in the USA, dating back to colonial times when “shrubs” were a common tonic. While the company does not make any claims as to the health benefits of their product, it is a delicious and refreshing drink with a nice tartness coming from the vinegar and concentrated flavors of fruit, vegetable and aromatics.
Visit: Pok Pok Som
Happy Planet started when two country boys began concocting juices and smoothies to give city people a taste of the country. Sticking to their roots, Happy Planet ensures that their drinks are natural, as organic as possible, and every ingredient on the label is recognizable and pronounceable. They do whatever they can to support the good work of Canadian farmers, so buy produce from food growers right here whenever possible.
Visit: Happy Planet
Award winning chocolate maker in Mt.Pleasant.
- FLAVOUR
Our work is guided by ingredients. We do our best to source the highest quality products available, and our recipes are balanced to enhance their flavour.- CREATIVITY
Creative inspiration is at the core of BETA5. Through our products, we hope to tell stories, entertain, and intrigue.- SURPRISE
We provide you with the unexpected; you provide us with an open mind.- INSPIRED BY NATURE
We’re continuously inspired by our surroundings; Our flavours flow with the seasons and our products take organic forms drawn directly from nature.- RESPONSIBILITY
We take food security seriously, by supporting small-scale
food production and developing relationships with the
people who grow our food.
Visit: Beta 5 Chocolates
Award winning chocolate maker in Mt.Pleasant.
- FLAVOUR
Our work is guided by ingredients. We do our best to source the highest quality products available, and our recipes are balanced to enhance their flavour.- CREATIVITY
Creative inspiration is at the core of BETA5. Through our products, we hope to tell stories, entertain, and intrigue.- SURPRISE
We provide you with the unexpected; you provide us with an open mind.- INSPIRED BY NATURE
We’re continuously inspired by our surroundings; Our flavours flow with the seasons and our products take organic forms drawn directly from nature.- RESPONSIBILITY
We take food security seriously, by supporting small-scale
food production and developing relationships with the
people who grow our food.
Visit: Beta 5 Chocolates
Sapadilla Soaps are eco liquid cleaners made with high quality ingredients, fresh blends of pure essential oils, and beautiful, simple design. Made locally in Burnaby, the Sapadilla line of cleaning liquids and hand soaps may actually make cleaning fun again.
These lovely liquid soaps are made from plant-based ingredients and are biodegradable, making them genuinely earth-friendly, naturally effective and kind to your skin (no SLS/SLES). Plus, they smell wonderful!
Visit: Sapadilla Soaps
CUPPOW is your solution for easier drinking from a canning jar. It works great, it’s super durable, it’s made in the USA, it’s phthalate and BPA free, it’s recyclable, and it doesn’t break the bank.
The canning jar already makes an awesome platform for a travel mug: it’s easy to clean, made of heat- resistant glass, cheap, durable, and when sealed it doesn’t leak. The only problem is that with their large openings, canning jars are not great for spill-free sipping while on the move. So Cuppows adapted it - making new lids that let you drink like a boss from virtually any wide or regular mouth canning jar. It’s a simple eco-friendly alternative to poor-performing and messy disposable hot cups and over-built and expensive travel mugs.
Visit: Cuppow
The vegan and gluten-fee pate by Pate Pastiche is made right here in East Vancouver. The vegetables, grains, herbs and spices in this delightful pate are sourced from local and organic producers. Pate Pastiche comes in 3 mouth-watering flavours: Forest Mushroom, Sunshine Tomato and Market Herb. They are great as hors d’oeuvres or simply as a quick and healthy snack.
Visit: Pate Pastiche
Earnest Ice Cream loves ice cream and they take it earnestly. To them, that means crafting ice cream in small batches using local, seasonal ingredients. It means packaging their pints in reusable glass jars and pedaling an ice cream tricycle. It means curiosity and passion, and a recipe for the best ice cream in Vancouver!
Come in for a take-home jar or ice cream by the scoop during the warm season.
Visit: Earnest Ice Cream
Sole Food transforms vacant urban land into street farms that grow artisan quality fruits and vegetables in the urban environment.
Their mission is to empower individuals with limited resources by providing jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a supportive community of farmers and food lovers.
We envision a future where small farms thrive in every neighborhood, where good food is accessible to all, and where everyone participates in the process. Solefood is helping to fulfill this vision by marrying innovative farming methods with concrete social goals.
Visit: Sole Food Farms
Sugo Sauce is a sauce with an authentic tomato based ‘sugo’ (Italian for sauce) inspired by family recipes and handmade with love.
Sugo Sauce was born as the result of a relationship between nonna and nipote (grandmother and grand- daughter in Italian). As time passed, nipote (and company owner) made alterations to nonna’s sugo recipe through inspirations and influences of living in the multicultural city of Vancouver BC.
Visit: Sugo Sauce
Happy and healthy cows produce delicious milk and delicious milk turns into the best tasting dairy products. The Birchwood family farm starts by insuring their cows are fed a complete balanced diet including vitamins and minerals. This insures their herd is happy and healthy.
Since they do not over process their milk, their product has a more natural taste. Their milk is also enriched with selenium. Selenium is an essential nutrient that helps maintain your immune system. Selenium also protects the cells inside the body from damage. Over time, damaged cells can lead to the development of many illnesses and diseases.
Mellifera Bees produces distinctive, hand-crafted honey infusions of exceptional quality. Each jar contains unprocessed honey harvested from ethically managed stationary hives in backyards just like yours, in neighbourhoods not so far from where you live, across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
Suffused with a rich bouquet of aromatic flavours, the honey’s unique character is produced from the wild wanderings of Mellifera’s bees and enhanced with a delicate blend of spices or fruit. Each ingredient is chosen for quality and freshness and sourced exclusively from small, independently owned British Columbia companies specializing in certified Organic, Fair Trade comestibles.
Visit: Mallifera Bees
