Farmers' Market

By Lara Fominoff

Market Opens

13th annual downtown Lethbridge Farmers’ Market returns for the summer

Jul 3, 2019 | 12:04 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – It’s a cornucopia of homemade baking, local and B.C. produce and fruit, handmade crafts and goods in downtown Lethbridge.

Lettuce from a Hutterite Colony

Exhibition Park and the downtown Business Revitalization Zone (BRZ) are once again running/hosting the market each Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. until September 4.

For the 4th year, Nobleford’s Teunie Anker and her daughter set up their baked tables full of homemade Dutch baking including their best seller, “syrup waffles.”

Teunie Anker and her daughter

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“They’re typical Dutch cookies, she says. “We have an iron at home and at first we bake the waffle and then cook the butter syrup with cinnamon and brown sugar, and then we fill the waffle with syrup. That’s the end product.”

Dutch Syrup Waffles

Anker came to Canada 15 years ago from the Netherlands and began farming with her husband.

“When I was young, I always worked at a baker in Holland and now my kids are growing up, so I started baking again. It always sells here in Lethbridge.”

She says her young daughter also helps with the baking, packaging and selling everything as well.

Dozens of people, recyclable bags in hand attended as soon as the market opened, including Margaret, from one of the local senior’s lodges she and her husband just moved into a month ago.

“We’re just coming to look at what’s here…. it keeps you busy. It’s my first time here. So far, it looks alright…I’ll just wander around.”

B.C. raspberries and blueberries

The market is located on 6 Street South, between 3 Avenue South and 4 Avenue South.

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