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Local 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. ​


SCHEDULE

Local Showcase - May schedule

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:


Caribb Pop

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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


Triple Eh Brews

Triple Eh Brews is a proudly family-owned, fully licensed Canadian business, founded in Hamilton, Ontario. Specializing in handcrafted, gluten-free wines and spirits, we offer a wide variety of products, including our signature Delé Wines and Poison Spirits line. Each product is locally made, crafted with minimal ingredients, and triple-distilled to ensure a high-quality experience.

Since 2020, we’ve been committed to transparency, quality, and creating unique, flavorful beverages. Join us at the Hamilton Farmers Market to experience the best of local wines and spirits, perfect for any occasion!

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tripleehbrews.ham

Website: www.tripleehbrews.ca

Humble Bee

Humble Bee - Local Showcase
Humble Bee - raw honey
Humble Bee - jar honey

About: Humble Bee produces pure, raw, and unfiltered honey straight from the hive. They’re committed to sustainable beekeeping and providing delicious, high-quality honey to the local community.

Humble Bee Inc., founded by Luc Peters in 2013, is an urban beekeeping company based in Hamilton, Ontario, managing hundreds of hives across the region. They specialize in honey production, beekeeping equipment sales, and education, offering lessons and api-tourism experiences. Committed to sustainable practices, they avoid antibiotics and synthetic miticides, focusing on breeding disease-resistant and hygienic bee stock. Humble Bee mission is to promote beekeeping awareness while actively supporting pollinator health by educating the community while fostering sustainable practices and advocating for the protection of vital pollinator habitats. As a result of their dedication, they have received well-deserved recognition, including a First Ontario Business Award in 2018.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/humblebee

Facebook: www.facebook.com/HumbleBee

Website: www.humblebee.buzz


Summit Station Dairy

Summit Station Dairy - Local Showcase
Summit Station Dairy - selection
Summit Station Dairy - Farm fresh milk

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


Foundry Ice Cream

Foundry Ice Cream selection - Local Showcase
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Foundry Ice Cream jars

About: Foundry Ice Cream is known for its handcrafted, small-batch ice creams made with high-quality local ingredients. Their unique flavors and creamy textures make every scoop unforgettable.

Foundry Ice Cream is a small-batch ice cream producer based in Hamilton, Ontario. They specialize in crafting rich, French-style ice cream using fresh Ontario cream and milk and are committed to incorporating seasonal ingredients from local producers. With over forty original flavors, their offerings include unique creations like Girl Guides’ Cookies and Cream.

For the latest updates and flavor offerings, you can follow them on Instagram.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/foundryicecream


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:

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