Join us at the Friday Market

Discover the Heart of our Community, while experiencing
the vibrant atmosphere of our weekly gathering, where local vendors bring fresh produce, handmade crafts, and more. Come on out and support your local vendors; this is one of the island’s most-beloved weekly events!

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The Friday Market

12 – 3pm Mansons Hall 

The Friday Market is more than just a place to shop; it’s a cornerstone of our community. Established to support local farmers and artisans, it provides a platform for small businesses to thrive. 

Our mission is to foster a sense of community, promote sustainability, and offer a space where neighbours can connect and enjoy the best our area has to offer. From fresh fruits and vegetables to unique handmade goods, the market is a celebration of local talents and resources, enriching out community every week.

Market Vendors

We have a great community of vendors offering everything from gourmet treats and sushi, artisan crafts, clothing and jewelry, to fresh produce, beauty care products and services. Here are some of the regular vendors you might find at the market!  

Barbara Buffington

Barbara Buffington is a staple at the Friday Market delighting the community with her homemade baked goods. Each week, her table is filled with fresh jams made from fruit she lovingly grows herself (everything except the blueberries!), alongside oatmeal cookies, rosemary focaccia, whole wheat bread, chocolate brownie squares, raisin scones, and seasonal pies. Barbara’s baking is rooted in care and tradition, with recipes that highlight simple, wholesome ingredients and the flavours of the season. Call to order in advance: Barbara 250-935-6383.

Bareroots Botanicals

Meredith offers a selection of her hand-tanned sheepskins along with herbal skin care products including soaps, salves, creams, and hydrosols. She works with traditional tanning methods, reclaimed hides, and locally sourced ingredients to create goods that are both beautiful and sustainable. Each item is unique and made in small batches with care. 

Christy Feaver Jewelry

Christy Feaver Jewelry embodies the essence of handmade artistry, offering pieces that are crafted with both heart and soul. Each creation is a reflection of inspiration drawn from life’s moments, celebrating individuality and emotional connection. The designs are characterized by a balance of timeless elegance and contemporary flair, making them suitable for any occasion. With a commitment to quality and craftsmanship, Christy Feaver Jewelry is not just about adornment; it’s about telling a story, cherishing memories, and inspiring others through beautiful, heartfelt pieces.

Connie Quayle

Connie is a shamanic healer and hedge witch who works with plant magic to uplift your energetic frequency. Connie crafts potions in collaboration with spirit, blending herbs from her Cortes Island gardens into sweet glycerine-based elixirs. Add them to a drink, bath, or enjoy a drop on the tongue to welcome in the energies your choose. There are Sun Drops, Moon Drops, Dream Drops and Rose Drops. Alongside her potions, Connie also offer salves, smoke blends, spiritual healing sessions, and space clearings. 

DeathCare Collective

Join us at the Friday Market on the last Friday of each month, for tea, cookies, and heartfelt conversation. The DeathCare Collective offers a warm, welcoming space to chat, ask questions and share thoughts about life and death. Since 2019, this compassionate group has been helping our community reclaim the tradition of caring for our own at death. They believe death is not a medical event, but a deeply human experience. One that can be tended to with presence, love and care.

Elsewear Merino Clothing

Hand-made clothing for the whole family using sustainable fabrics such as hand-dyed merino wool, hemp, organic cotton and bamboo. Come check out Hilary’s new colours and styles!  @elsewearclothing

Emmanuel

Emmanuel is a Cortes Island blacksmith, and leather worker. He sells his knot work and hand-forged products, hand-made leather bags, bottle carriers, belts, knife sheaths, and jewellery at the Market. Emmanuel loves doing repairs, and breathing new life into old treasures! 

Feral Fairy Grove

Omilea and Samuel are the family behind Feral Fairy Grove, a Cortes Island grown company offering medicincal teas, crystal jewelry, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Samuel, a tree nurse, and Omilea, born and raised on Cortes Island, are passionate about working with nature to support the health of their community and the environment.

Hightide Natural Products

Hightide Natural Products is a locally owned, small-batch business rooted on Cortes Island. From her homestead in Whaletown, Taylor Christmas crafts holistic home and body goods. Coastal soy candles, salt soaks, botanical soaps, plant perfumes, serums, butters, healing topicals, tinctures, clothing, flowers and more. Each item is made with intention, using non-toxic, plant powered, ocean-safe ingredients. 

Melissa Campbell

In the heart of our local market, Melissa brings the world to Cortes through her exquisite collection of fine textiles and handmade treasures. Discover vibrant handwoven rugs, intricately crafted baskets, and cozy blankets – each piece telling a story of tradition and artistry. Explore her beautiful hand-printed bandanas and sarongs from India, made of organic cotton using time-honoured block-printing traditions. As a local beekeeper and candle maker, Melissa also offers hand-dipped beeswax tapers and, when available, fresh local honey. The sweetest addition to your market day!

Sunflower Foods - First Friday of each month

Sunflower Foods is a small, family-owned business that primarily operates out of their home commercial kitchen. They are passionate about serving the community healthy, homemade, affordable food, including meals, desserts, snacks, and goodies.
As part of their commitment to the community, Sunflower Foods is dedicated to continuing the Meals on Wheels program, working with the Food Bank, and vending at the Friday Market. You can find them at market on the FIRST FRIDAY of each month.

Trevor & Elizabeth

Fresh pasta will be at the Friday Market! Varieties are Linguini, Bucatini, Mafalidini and Casarecce. Over two years ago, Trever and Elizabeth left Vancouver for Cortes Island. What started as a dream of slowing down has grown into something even more meaningful: every week, Trever crafts traditional fresh pasta with Canadian semolina for the Manson’s Hall Farmers Market. Some weeks, he even fires up the oven for Neapolitan-style pizzas. Made with care, from scratch, and always with a little island love.

Twigroot Botanicals

Inspired by her deep connection to the plant world and the wild nature of Cortes Island, Tammy creates skincare that flows in rhythm with the seasons and honours the pure, wild, beauty of nature. She crafts skin care that is potent, effective and gentle using  hand cultivated and wild harvested botanicals grown on Cortes Island, cold pressed and organic flower and berry seed oils and ethically sourced luxurious butters. twigroot.ca

Wildflower Produce & Cidery

Wildflower Produce and Cidery is a Regenerative farm on Cortes Island producing a myriad of fruits, vegetables and cider. Located at the historic property of Reef Point, products are produced using holistic methods that aim to improve the life around and within us. All eight cider varieties were fermented with the wild yeast and naturally carbonated. All apples came from Cortes or Quadra and all other ingredients, cultivated and wild, were harvested on Cortes. @wildflowercidery

Wild Spirit Glass

Anastasia creates fun jewelry and collectable treasures from borosilicate glass in a tiny-home studio in Whaletown. Each piece is crafted by hand in the flame with the help of sculpting tools and gravity, in a technique called lampworking. Most pieces are one of a kind and will last for a lifetime or more with a little care. Anastasia is also a gifted healer and will be offering chair massage and reiki at the Friday Market. wildspiritglass.ca 

Join Us!

Want to become a vendor?  Email Cora to get started: cora@mansonshall.org

Market Vendor Application

Please print this form and leave it in the drop-box outside the hall office or email to: cora@mansonshall.org

Market Vendor Policy

Vendors must agree to all terms of this policy before attending the market.

Pets at the Market

We only allows dogs (and other animals) outdoors at the Friday Market. We do allow certified service dogs indoors and outdoors at the market.
If you are bringing your pet to the outdoor area of the market, please remember the following rules:
  • Keep your dog on a short leash at all times. Long leashes are a safety hazard.
  • Keeps dogs out of the stall area.
  • Stay away from food samples, customer bags, and table surfaces.
  • Watch your dog at all times. You must keep your dog under control or we will ask you to leave the market.
  • Keep your pet hydrated and clean up after them.
  • Be respectful of everyone wishing to enjoy the market (not all customers are dog lovers).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mansons Hall

983 Beesley Road (Box 222)
Mansons Landing, V0P 1K0
250-935-0015

Executive Director: cora@mansonshall.org
Finance & Admin: admin@mansonshall.org
Media: media@mansonshall.org