Saturday Grazing at Trout Lake Market, John Hendry Park (Trout Lake), East Vancouver, Vancouver BC

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Saturday Grazing at Trout Lake Market

60 stalls, a lake, a coffee truck, and an official 'no plan' plan every Saturday morning in John Hendry Park.

John Hendry Park (Trout Lake), East Vancouver

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The date

On Saturday mornings the parking lot beside Trout Lake fills with 60-plus farms, bakers, and producers for what people reasonably call the city's biggest farmers market. Browsing is free, there is a coffee truck, and you will end up splitting a warm pastry on the grass by the lake feeling like a competent adult. Buy one small thing for the other to try. The plan, specifically, is no plan.

How to do it

Drift through 60+ farm and bakery stalls beside the lake, just-picked berries, fresh bread, weird-good preserves, and make it a shared mission: taste samples, meet a dog or six, and buy one small thing each for the other to try. Browsing's free; a few dollars buys a picnic to split on the grass. It runs Saturdays 9am to 2pm, April through October, so bring a tote and small bills. Give it 75 minutes, then cap it with a slow loop of the lake.

What to wear: casual is fine

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Duration
About an hour
Best time
Morning to afternoon
Per person
$
setting
Outdoor
neighbourhood
John Hendry Park (Trout Lake), East Vancouver
best season
Spring, Summer, Fall

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