Sponsorship
Each year, Vancouver Farmers Markets extends invitations to sponsors to create an intimate and like-minded group of brands that value local food, sustainability, and healthy communities.
Our sponsors and community partners provide funding that pays for equipment purchases, operational expenses, and new market research and start up. Sponsorship dollars also helps us facilitate special programs like the Fresh to Families Project. Your sponsorship will support us as we continue to build successful, vibrant markets for Vancouver, which help keep BC farms in production.
Become a VFM sponsor! Check out our Sponsorship Package and email Bree Hayden, bree@eatlocal.org, to learn more.
Vancouver Farmers Markets is proud to be a 1% For the Planet Non Profit Organization
Major Project Support
Over the past 5 years Vancity and the Vancity VISA enviroFund have supported the Vancouver Farmers Markets to start-up new, thriving neighbourhood farmers markets including the Kitsilano Sunday Farmers Market and the all-outdoor Saturday Winter Farmers Market near Nat Bailey Stadium, and in 2012, the Wednesday Main St. Station Farmers Market. Additionally, since 2010, Vancity has supported the Vancouver Farmer Markets by providing project start-up funding to develop infrastructure for our markets and the local food system as a whole.
Market Season Sponsors
Cadillac Fairview is a globally focused owner, operator, investor, and developer of best-in-class real estate across retail, office, residential, industrial and mixed-use asset classes. Pacific Centre properties stretch over downtown Vancouver’s three city blocks, showcasing Vancouver’s retail, office, and entertainment hub and premier fashion destination.
We create and cultivate innovative spaces and experiences that bring people together in inspiring ways.
Cadillac Fairview is a season sponsor of the Downtown Farmers Market.
PCI Developments s a Vancouver-based real estate developer and investor founded in 1982. PCI is a proud member of the Hastings-Sunrise community with retail & secured rental apartments at 388 Kaslo and under construction retail & secured rental apartments, including moderate income rental, at 3600 & 3680 East Hastings at Boundary Road completing in 2023, and 3555 East Hastings shortly after.
PCI Development is a Season Sponsor of the Hastings Park Farmers Market
Market Day Sponsors
ElectroRecycle, BC’s only small appliance & power tool recycling program, is thrilled to be partnering with the Vancouver Farmers Market again this year to provide market-goers with special monthly recycling events. Market shoppers are invited to drop off their old, broken or unwanted electrical appliances such as blenders, hair dryers or power drills for recycling on the first and third Saturday and Sunday of the month, and for FREE!
For more info on the +400 items we recycle and the specific locations we attend this year, please visit www.electrorecycle.ca or find them at the markets. Dates coming soon!
Market Partners
No other city publication knows more about Vancouver than the Georgia Straight. Established as the news, lifestyle, and entertainment weekly in Vancouver for almost 55 years, it’s an integral part of the active urban West Coast lifestyle. The Straight delivers award-winning editorial that includes articles, and reviews with coverage on news, arts, music, food & drink, travel, health, and cannabis.
Amongst Vancouver’s first recycling companies, Recycling Alternative was founded with a vision to provide best practices waste reduction, diversion and recovery programs to the Industrial Commercial Institutional (ICI) sector. Providing full-site waste management services and consulting, Recycling Alternative pioneers innovative and sustainable waste solutions and circular materials recovery. Over our years in business, Recycling Alternative has gained a reputation for leadership and community impact through numerous waste reduction and diversion collaborations, including the Food Scraps Drop Spots with Vancouver Farmers Markets from 2011-2015.
Interested in becoming a Vancouver Farmers Market sponsor? See our Sponsorship Package for more details or contact our Access & Development Manager Bree Hayden – bree@eatlocal.org
