2024 Season: Market runs rain or shine on Sundays from June 2nd, 2024 to September 29th, 2024 (18 dates)
Hours: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: John Street North Downtown Arnprior
June 9 – Pride |
This theme fits well with June as it is Pride month!To appreciate Pride, this theme invites you to express yourself in the brightest colours and rainbows. The market will be decorated with Pride flags, rainbows, and anything colourful. Additionally, Pride organizations such as P Flag and Arnprior Pride will be present at the market to provide local perspective towards Pride awareness. Guests are encouraged to participate in this Sunday’s theme by wearing Pride pins, apparel,or brining your own forms of Pride expression such as your own Pride flag.Stay tuned for additional Pride themed activities! Absolutely zerodisrespectful, aggressive, or harassing behaviour will be tolerated. Failure to abide by this requirement will result in one’s removal from the marketpremises. |
June 30 – Red and White / Canada Day |
As Canada Day approaches the following Monday, this theme will be catered towards the country we call home and the red and white of the Canadian colours! Products in the market may reflect objects/food of Canadian heritage or simply be the colours of red and/or white. As well, the market will be decorated in red and white décor including Canadian flags. You can participate in this theme by wearing your best red and white attire or anything expressing Canada. |
July 21 – Christmas in July |
This theme invites the opportunity for Christmas to be intertwined with a market in the month of July! Perhaps, the perfect opportunity to start considering future Christmas gifts, contents of this theme resemble Christmas festivities, colours, and tastes. The products in the market may reflect Christmas essentials with perhaps a summer twist such as peppermint scent/flavours, frozen hot chocolate, red and green products or anything Christmas themed. A special addition to the market includes the visitation of Santa as a special guest. Participation in this theme may include wearing red and green attire or a Santa hat. |
August 18 – Under the Summer Sun |
Amidst the summer weather of August, this theme invites the refreshments and fun of a hot summer day! Products of the market may reflect themes of summer from beach days to backyard barbeques. In addition, the market will be filled with bright colours and summer attire such as sunglasses, flowers, beach hats, shells and all things warm. |
September 29 – Fall in the Valley |
As the town of Arnprior approaches the fall and fair season, this theme encourages a connection with the roots of the Valley! From flannel to denim, this theme reflects farm activities and fall classics such as pumpkins and the warm colours of orange, yellow and brown. |
Arnprior Lions Club |
The Arnprior Lions Club is a chapter of the Ontario Lions Club and is a not-for-profit service organization that raises funds within the community that are donated back to various causes in the community. The Arnprior Lion’s Club also supports Lions Club International’s global initiatives such as providing disaster relief, promoting vision health, and fighting hunger. |
Bake My Day |
Bake My Day is locally owned here in Arnprior! They sell baked goods and offers knife sharpening services. |
Biryani House Arnprior |
Biryani House is a locally owned restaurant here in Arnprior! They specialize in authentic Pakistani foods such as Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Dum Biryanis, Naan Bread and more. They use Halal meat for all their dishes and will be operating directly out of their Arnprior restaurant location on the days of the Sunday Market! |
Darling Buds Cut Flower Farm |
Darling Buds is a locally owned professional flower farm located in Kinburn, ON. Established in 2022 with a shovel and a dream, owner Larissa Dupuis specializes in planting specialty flowers tended by hand while using no-till practices. Darling Buds goal is to make sustainably grown specialty cut flowers available to everyone. |
Forager Bee |
Forager Bee is the labour of love of Tauney Stinson, a Renfrew County local, offering foraging classes, outdoor education, handmade pottery, honey, and other apiary products. Forager bees are the bees in the hive that go out and collect all the good things nature has to offer and share that information with the hive, much like Tauney does herself. |
Jewelry By Joss |
Jewelry by Joss is a locally owned jewelry shop located right here in Arnprior, ON! Owned by Jocelyn Sutherland, she creates kilt pins, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, eye glass necklace, pulls, keychains, and makes custom orders. If you can think of it, she can probably come up with something to decorate it! |
Just Perogies |
Authentic Ukranian Perogies made in the traditional way. Handmade and hand pinched with quality ingredients. |
Little Flower Creations |
Little Flower Creations is a home décor shop located in the Kanata, ON area. They specialize in showcasing the beauty of air plants. This includes 3D crafted containers for plants, various terrariums and found and up-cycled items. Additionally, Little Flower Creations makes a variety of laser-cut wooden gifts as well as unique 3D printed collectables. |
Long Lane Farms |
Long Lane Farms is a locally owned farm located in Calabogie, ON! Family owned and operated, they’re committed to raising high quality, pasture raised meats, including pork, beef, chicken and goat. Their goal is to raise livestock in a natural and sustainable way including free roam pastures and a diverse diet for all animals on the farm! |
Mini Moo Soaps |
Mini Moo Soaps makes handmade soap created with milk received from Miniature Jersey Cows named Sunshine and LouLou. Additionally, Mini Moo also makes felted items from sheep wool such as dryer balls and figures. Located in Pembroke, ON, the scents of the soap are carefully selected Doterra essential oils. |
Mountain Beauty |
Mountain Beauty is a vegan plant based soap-maker made on Bellamy Mills Road in Almonte. The Finnish-Canadian maker creates the cold pressed soaps with plant-based materials infused into oils that are grown on the Mountain Beauty farm, harvested in the woods, repurposed like coffee grounds, or sustainably sourced and all through low impact means. All of Mountain Beauty's soaps contain Lanark County Maple Syrup from the sugar bush across from the Mountain Beauty farm. With only natural goodness and plants, Mountain Beauty does not use artificial colours or fragrances, additives, mica, clays, or palm oil. The soaps are naturally coloured from the plant materials. Mountain Beauty has a variety of soap bars, heart shaped soaps, paw prints and Mini soaps - portable single use soaps you can stick in your purse to use on the road! Enjoy your favorite scents like lavender or peppermint basil or try something new like catnip, wild strawberry leaves, spruce tips, Queen Anne's Lace, Goldenrod, pine resin, staghorn sumac or chaga mushroom. Mountain Beauty also has a Greek God line of soaps, ranging from Hera's Helper, Medusa Healing, Morpheus Dream, Hades Trick, Aphrodite's Choice, Circe's Elixir, & Zeus Zinger.
Mountain Beauty also makes scrubs, bath bombs & lotions as well as Full Moon soaps, which are soaps made based on the full moon, for instance the June Strawberry Moon soap contains wild strawberry leaves & coloured by rhubarb root. All soaps oils have the full moon shone into the oils & contain moonbeams for that extra skin glow. |
Nancy Miller Jewelry Designs |
Nancy Miller Jewelry Designs creates personally handmade jewelry largely using natural gemstones and accessories with surprises of gemstones mixed with resin. Located in various destinations across Ontario including: Stittsville, Carleton Place, Calabogie, Perth and Almonte, Nancy creates beautiful necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. |
pRAWper Pet Treats |
pRAWper Pet Treats is locally own and located in Renfrew, ON! They create freeze dried and dehydrated pet treats with a focus on raw novel proteins. Additionally, pRAWper Pet Treats raise a large portion of their own quail and rabbits to make into the treats, as well as sourcing other animals from local farms and homesteads. |
Reezi Ceramics |
Reezi Ceramics is an arts and crafts based business owned by Shelly Riesebos. They specialize in functional, handmade pottery such as mugs, plates, bowls, and an assortment of other ceramics! |
Satura Bath & Body Company |
Satura Bath & Body Company is a consciously crafted skincare and wellness brand that creates clean, fresh, health-minded, and sustainable products that can be used by the entire family. Owned by Amanda McLeese and located in Cobden, ON, products provided by Satura include Sugar Scrub, Whipped Body Butter, “Oh so Minty” Foot Scrub and Foot Butter, All Natural Deodorant, and beautiful tie dyed Turkish Towels! All of their products are made in small batches using only the highest quality ingredients to ensure freshness and overall quality of each and every handmade piece. |
Scrunchies By Karen |
Scrunchies By Karen is a locally owned business in Renfrew, ON! They make homemade scrunchies and offer some variety of jewelry. |
Shane's Fishing Lures |
Homemade fishing lures made right here in the Valley! |
Terramor Farm |
Terramor Farm is an organic vegetable and cut-flower farm home to 30+ varieties of vegetables located in Burnstown, ON. They serve over 20 of Ottawa’s top restaurants and 3 retail locations in the Ottawa Valley. Terramor specializes in organic growing techniques which includes no use of synthetic sprays or fertilizer and the use of mostly hand tools rather than till and tractor.
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Verbivore Candles |
Verbivore Candles is locally owned right here in Arnprior! Owned by Tina Thompson, Verbivore Candles creates a variety of Small-Batch, artisanal, and gorgeously scented coconut wax candles. |
White Pine Bison |
White Pine Bison is a veteran-owned and operated bison farm located in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, within the Whitewarer Region. We raise and sell all-natural, grass fed and finished bison using non-GMO grass seed.
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WIRED UP |
WIRED UP creates wired headbands with you in mind! In a multitude of patterns and different sizes, there is surly something for everyone. Comfort, Style, and the Stay On Factor is what sets the bands apart from others. These are like the icing on the cake, giving you a finished look to your wardrobe. |
Indie Flower Farm |
Indie Flower Farm is a local and family run micro flower farm. Established in 2020, they specialize in seasonal flowers grown right here in McNab/Braeside. |
Black Walnut Worxx |
Black Walnut Worxx is a collection of black walnut, jewelry, photos on canvas and cards and a collection of unique “worxx” of nature! |
The Crafty Pineapple |
The Crafty Pineapple is a locally owned and operated home décor shop right here in Arnprior! Owned by Thea Van Zutphen, she specializes in personalized creations for life's moments such as home décor signs, keychains, mugs, and more! |
Iced Out Candies |
Iced Out Candies is a locally owned and operated business here in Braeside! They specialize in freeze dried candies and fruit. |
Berrylane |
Established in 2005, Berrylaneis located in the local area of Renfrew! They specialize in trailers, natural wood furniture, HDPE recycled plastic furniture, and other accessories! |
Brash & Sass |
Brash & Sass is a small startup business in Ottawa, Ontario. They started by providing personal beauty catre services such as eyelash extensions, threading and tinting. Following the launch of their first product, a collagen lip mask, they have expanded their collection to include accessories, face masks, and crystal essence oils. |
NCS Creative Designs |
NCS Creative Designs is locally operated here in Arnprior! They specialize in adding designs to Tumblers, t-shirts, puzzles, and more. Special custom orders can also be made. |
Handy Helper-Heather Park-Wheeler Tupperwareer |
Established in 2022, Handy Helper-Heather Park-Wheeler Tupperware designs efficient tupperware for all your storage needs. Handy Helper-Heather Park-Wheeler Tupperware is operated out of Eganville, Ontario. |
Become a Vendor | ||||||||||||||||||
Vendors applications are accepted on a first come, first serve bases with no limit on vendor product categories. There are 40 vendor spaces available and daily vendors are accepted up until noon on the Friday prior to a market date depending on weekly space availability. Vendors are required to provide liability insurance or there is an option to purchase insurance through the Town if required. This is not a farmers market so any vendor sell food products must have approval from the Renfrew County Health Unit. Market Date AvailabilityUnless listed below as full the community/youth booth are available.
Fees
*Seasonal vendors must attend at least seventy-five (75%) of the total market dates (14 or more market dates), 1/2 season vendors must attend 9 market dates. **“Farmer” means a person or business who raises and harvests animals or plants in a controlled environment. Farming includes: • tillage of the soil (in other words, plowing, sowing, and raising crops); • raising or exhibiting livestock; • maintaining horses for racing; • raising poultry; • fur farming; • dairy farming; • fruit growing; and • bee keeping • engaging in an aquaculture operation; • operating a woodlot; • planting, growing, and harvesting Christmas trees; • operating a nursery or greenhouse; • growing tobacco or medicinal marijuana, but not the manufacturing or processing associated with these crops; • operating a chick hatchery; • operating a maple sugar bush, which may include extracting and collecting maple sap; or • cultivating crops in water and hydroponics. Missed Markets Vendors will provide at least 48 hours’ notice (Friday at 9 am) to the Market Coordinator if unable to attend a specific market date and give full permission to the Town to rent out their space for that date only. Vendors that miss two market days without proper notice will forfeit their booth and their licence will be cancelled with no refund |
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Youth Booth | ||||||||||||||||||
A complimentary “Youth Booth” will be reserved for one Youth, under the age of 18, each week to sell items and the schedule will be coordinated by the Market Coordinator. All Arnprior Market rules and regulations will apply. The guardian applying for the Youth Booth on behalf of the youth will be held responsible for the booth and must accompany the youth if they are under 13 years old. The Town will provide a table and a tent upon request.
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Community Booth | ||||||||||||||||||
A complimentary “Community Booth” will be reserved for one Charitable/Non-Profit/Community Organization each week and the schedule will be coordinated by the Market Coordinator. The use of the table for political campaigning or religious proselytizing is deemed inappropriate. All Arnprior Market rules and regulations will apply. The person applying for the community table on behalf of their organization will be held responsible for the booth and insuring it is staffed. The Town will provide a table and a tent upon request.
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