Local Showcase
2025 / 02 / 12Local Showcase: Food and Beverage Artisanal Businesses
The Local Showcase at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market is an initiative designed to highlight the region’s top food and beverage artisanal businesses. Located on the lower level of the market, this vibrant space offers a rotating lineup of vendors, providing visitors with a diverse and dynamic shopping experience.
MEET THE LOCAL SHOWCASE VENDORS
Each of the participating businesses brings something special to the Local Showcase. Here’s a closer look at who’s involved:
New to Local Showcase….
JC Cattle Company
JC Cattle Co is situated just outside the small town of Milverton, Ontario, where they are dedicated to raising premium Speckle Park beef. Known for its exceptional quality and flavour, Speckle Park beef is Canadian beef breed praised for its marbling, tenderness and rich flavour.
They uphold a steadfast commitment to quality, offering beef that’s not just delicious but also free from GMOs, steroids, and hormones. At the JC Cattle Co, their focus is on delivering unparalleled taste and satisfaction, ensuring that every cut of their beef meets the highest standards of excellence.
Their farm offers a distinctive selection of premium beef cuts, butcher boxes, as well as bulk orders. In addition, they have handcrafted a variety of beef and tallow products, such as beef bone broth, beef cooking tallow and tallow skincare.
When you choose the JC Cattle Co, you’re choosing not just any beef, but a premium culinary experience that’s second to none. Don’t take our word for it though – try it yourself!
They don’t just sell beef—they love to share stories about how it’s raised, why Speckle Park is special, and how to cook with less familiar cuts. Their booth is warm, welcoming, and built around trust, knowledge, and pride in Canadian agriculture.
Website: www.jccattleco.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jccattleco3
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jc.cattleco
Sweet Nutritionista
Founded by a holistic nutritionist, Sweet Nutritionista was created with one clear purpose: to make treats and drinks that everyone can enjoy — no matter their dietary needs. Their products are gluten-free, nut-free, vegan, and made without artificial colours, preservatives, or flavours. If you’re someone managing allergies, living plant-based, or just looking for a better-for-you option, Sweet Nutritionista delivers fresh, delicious treats that don’t compromise on taste. Stop by to discover a new favourite that’s as good for you as it is satisfying.
Website: https://sweetnutritionista.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sweetnutritionista
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sweetnutritionista
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@sweetnutritionista
Returning Local Showcase Vendors…
Golden Tallow
High quality, grass fed + finished + pasture raised beef tallow products for cooking and skincare!
COOKING:
Everyone is looking for healthy, natural alternatives to both cooking… and skincare! Beef tallow is the alternative to seed oils, and a return to how our ancestors prepared food! Used for centuries in traditional cooking, tallow remains a natural, nutrient-dense alternative to industrial seed oils.
SKIN:
It has a very similar profile to the oils our skin naturally produces and is also extremely beneficial to use on the skin. We focus on natural, healthy products, with ONE ingredient!
Website: https://goldentallow.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goldentallow.ca
Oakville Authentic Kebabs
What began as a quest to recreate those flavors for our family soon turned into a passion to share them with the community. I started crafting freshly marinated, ready-to-cook kebabs using zero preservatives and no artificial flavours—just pure, authentic taste. My mission is straightforward: to bring restaurant-quality, home-style kebabs to families seeking a healthier, more delicious alternative.
Website: www.oakvilleauthentickebabs.ca
Instagram: www.instagram.com/oakvilleauthentickebabs
SAB Fruit Cakes
SAB Fruit Cake is a fruity sumptuous Fruit Cake made from blended fruits soaked in Rum and Wine, then aged to perfection. This infusion of Jamaican Rum and Wine creates a Rich; mellow tasting, flavorful Fruit Cake without the heavy mouth-feel of whole fruits, “A perfect delicate balance of texture and flavors”.
Come by for a free sample of this delicious Jamaican Rum Cake.
Website: www.sabfruitcake.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SABFruitCake
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sabfruitcakes
Caribb Pop
About: A tropical soda brand that offer low-sugar beverages designed to support gut health.
CARIBB POP is addressing the need for healthier soda options. Promoting better wellness and self-care, while bringing delicious tropical flavours and cultural representation.
Developed by a Caribbean-Canadian Holistic Nutritionist, and winner of the SWOBEN & McMaster IF pitch competition. Michael and his wife Jennifer are the visionary founders behind CARIBB POP.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/caribbpop
Summit Station Dairy
About: SUMMIT STATION DAIRY AND CREAMERY is an on-farm dairy and retail store located on the Loewith Family Dairy farm in Hamilton, Ontario. Using only A2A2 milk from the herd, Summit Station processes and bottles whole milk, unhomogenized milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, skimmed milk, table cream, and egg nog. Don’t miss out on the fresh cheese curds that you can purchase at the Local Showcase.
The Summit Station store location has been built to resemble an old Ontario train station,
complete with its own ‘abandoned’ railroad. Greeting customers as they make their way to the building is a life-sized model cow with a perfect heart shaped marking on her side – painted to match the real ‘Valentina’ cow in the barn.
Summit Station has once again brought the ‘milkman’ tradition back to Hamilton residents. To make this possible, they have introduced a dedicated delivery service using their own drivers and vans. They have developed a convenient membership platform, ensuring that fresh, glass-bottled milk arrives right at local doorsteps.
With the launch of Summit Station Dairy & Creamery, the Loewith family is now able to control every step of dairy production – from planting the crop to milking the cows to packaging the product to picking up the empty glass bottles from a doorstep.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/summitstationdairy
Facebook: www.facebook.com/summitstation
Website: https://summitstationdairy.com
Come Explore & Support Local!
The Hamilton Farmers’ Market Local Showcase is the perfect opportunity to support local farmers, veggie & fruit producers, artisanal small-batch food producers and craft brewery & cidery businesses.
Where: Hamilton Farmers’ Market, Lower Level
When: Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday during February and March 2025
Let’s celebrate our local food community together! See you at the market.
We are looking For Farmers, Food & Beverage Business to become a Local Showcase vendor?
If you are local farmers, veggie & fruit producers, artisanal small-batch food producers and craft brewery & cidery business that might be interested in being a Local Showcase Vendor? We have space on Thursdays, & Fridays for select businesses.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO BECOME A VENDOR & HOW TO APPLY
Spots fill up fast!
If you have another type of business and interested in the other opportunities, such as Market Program (daily rental space) and Stall Rentals available in the Market, click Learn More below: