Producer Organizations

Farmers’ Market

The Alberta Approved Farmers’ Market Program is an Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (AAFRD) program. The Rural Business and Diversification Branch of AAFRD administers the program on behalf of the Minister. The program creates an operational framework that facilitates direct market access for community-based entrepreneurs who make, bake, or grow the products they sell. Basic operating guidelines, provincial program-awareness initiatives, and the education of vendors, managers and consumers are the key components of this community-based program.

Alberta Farm Fresh Producers Association

AFFPA is a voluntary membership, non-profit organization representing direct market growers. Most AFFPA members market directly to consumers via U-Pick farms, farm gate sales and/or through Farmers’ Markets.

Eat Well Guide

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A free, online directory of nearly 9,000 stores, small farms, restaurants and other outlets in the US and Canada that offer sustainably-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and egg products. Consumers simply enter their zip or postal code to find local products that were raised sustainably, including no antibiotics, no added hormones, pasture raised, grass fed and organic.