Photos (above and below) : from the cover of “2008 Cascadia Organic Calendar
(available free in Choices Markets)
Photo: More from the front cover of 2008 Cascadia Organic Calendar
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Imagine West Vancouver Capers newer, bigger and located in Yaletown and you have Choices Market Yaletown! Talk about “coming home”! That’s exactly how Yaletown Choices Market feels.
Choices Markets (now 8 locations in British Columbia) are 100 percent Canadian-owned and operated. Unlike Whole Foods, Choices Markets (and previously, Capers Community Markets) produce is supplied by “small, independent farmers.”
[See Editor's Note 2 in "Them Apples."]
The 2008 Cascadia Organic Calendar (available free in Choices Markets) celebrates these Choices Markets suppliers, the small independent organic farms and farm families. Examples: 1) Kildara Farm in Sidney, BC, owned by Daphne and Brian Hughes (year-round unheated greenhouses), 2) Salt Spring Seeds, Dan Jason (one of the world’s leading bean experts), 3) Meyers Farms, Bob and Marlene Myers (greens producers).
The 2008 Cascadia Organic Calendar is fascinating and informative.
ALSO, there’s another ORGANIC treat just a block away from Choices Market in Yaletown: “Simply Produce.” This is a fruit and salad bar which features ORGANIC flax breads. (Website for “Simply Produce” is “under temporary construction” (meaning an update or a brand new website). The organic flax breads, though, are provided by Flax is Good (and that website comprehensive).
Yaletown Choices Market is located on Richards and Davie in downtown Vancouver.
Thanks for the “head’s up” about all the Choices Markets around. Yaletown is an easy reach for me. Now that “Capers” is no longer really Capers remembering and rediscovering Choices is such a relief almost. Somewhere to shop organic again that doesn’t “blow my budget.”
My daughter lives in Yaletown, and she told me to “come shop at Choices.” I did and I love it! Since the Whole Foods takeover of Capers, nothing has been the same–especially not prices. I’m going to check out Choices in Kitsalano too.