As Shoptalk reported last week, a new International Market is starting up Fridays at the Halifax Seaport (Pier 22, 1209 Marginal Road, 429-6256), but that’s only a part of the story. You’ll find that the Friday market also includes a number of vendors from Saturday’s traditional market that will also be down there on Sundays […]
Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market
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Best Thing To Happen In Halifax In The Past Year
Ah, yes. Harbour Solutions was fixed and this was a very good thing, especially given the efforts and expense to make it happen. But we also had to go through the 2009 malfunction that set the project back a year and more than $10 million. And the fact that the treatment plants were built to […]
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Seaport Fridays
On Friday November 5, a new International Friday Market will open at the Seaport Market (1209 Marginal Road, 429-6256), and will continue henceforth every Friday from 10am to 7pm, with the official opening November 19. The international market will feature vendors from nations as varied Turkey, Peru, India, Lebanon, China, Iran and Greece, more than […]
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Halifax Farmers’ Market open today, 4-8pm
Today, the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market will be open from 4-8pm, so stock up now. But if you really enjoy buying your veggies in a storm, the Market will be open again tomorrow, regular time and apparently most vendors will be there.
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Meet the new Seaport Farmers’ Market
[image-1] The new Seaport Farmers’ Market is under construction on Marginal Road, one of those Halifax addresses best described by its relationship to other places: behind the train station, across from Garrison Brewery, beside the Pier 21 museum. In this way it is very much like the current Brewery Market market, where shoppers need elaborate conversations just to explain how to find certain vendors. “Oh, you don’t know where the Dutchman is? How about the place that has the apples and the fudge? What about those guys who make the omelettes, upstairs across from Ted Hutten? Great. OK. So. You’re
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The Seaport Beerfest review
You couldn’t pick a better day for sitting around and drinking beer with hundreds of your closest friends. A bright sun was broken only occasionally by a passing cloud and a light breeze, and the breeze was from some direction that somehow missed the millions of litres of raw sewage floating past. Thirty beer and […]