This past Saturday was a perfect weather day, and it was wonderful to see so many of our regular customers shopping @ Market and supporting local. With our vendors booths decorated for Canada Day, and the Pumphouse conducting a Canada Day stamping activity, it is finally feeling like we are back to normal.
For your shopping needs this coming Saturday, our vendors’ tables will be brimming with freshly picked Niagara produce; cherries, strawberries, raspberries, beets, peas, green beans, zucchini, salad greens, potatoes, microgreens, and much more will be available. Our faithful breakfast vendor, Sweets & Swirls will be away from the Market this weekend, so Cheese Secrets has stepped up and will have breakfast an lunch options available for you to purchase. As always, baked goods, farm fresh eggs, local honey, maple syrup, sweet and savoury preserves, breakfast and lunch options and drinks, eco friendly products for home and body, hand-tied floral bouquets, and antiques & gift items will be waiting for you to purchase. Healthy eating has never been this easy or this fresh.
Shoppers are welcome to and encouraged to bring their own reusable shopping bags. For your shopping convenience, we do have an ATM located at the Market entrance. Stop by the Market tent to browse our Cookbook Lending Library and drop off a donation for Newark Neighbours.
The Market @ The Village is committed to supporting and promoting our Niagara farmers and small businesses. If we don’t support local now, there will be no local to support in the future. Farmers’ Market is open every Saturday morning from 8 am to 1 pm until October 8th, located at 111 Garrison Village Dr (in front of the Garrison House restaurant)
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A weekly section called “Meet the Vendors”
“Savuti”
Savuti is owned and operated by Colette Leier who says “Savuti is for the woman who is looking to make an intentional purchase. Home decor and personal accessories reflect Modern African design with a fusion of traditional elements. Pieces, including baskets from Kenya, Eswatini, and pottery and textiles from South Africa are handmade and as unique as the hands that made them.” Savuti sells home decor, clothing, jewelry and many other handmade items. Colette travels to Africa to connect with artisans and to learn their stories. “Each time, I touch the ground in Africa, an exhilarating feeling of discovery hits me. I hope every Savuti customer gets that same feeling. Together, we are leveraging business for good.” That is Colette’s mission with her brand; to help small artisans in African countries expand and give the same magical feeling to her customers that she experiences when she travels around Africa.
Savuti is a bridge across cultures, by sharing everyday objects that reflect Modern African Design. It is a way through which the tactile, colourful tradition-based creations of African artisans can be introduced to a global marketplace. It is a means by which buyers, many of whom are in North America, are able to collect artistic yet functional pieces from far away while knowing that each purchase encourages entrepreneurship and supports a sustainable path for the artisans to have better lives. There is nothing more exciting than discovering a new artist that preserves age-old cultural traditions that are in danger of being lost. Through Savuti, such artisanal communities get to unlock their own potential, share the know-how that is woven into their ancestral memory, and culturally enrich the world while earning sustainable incomes. Savuti has many ways of gaining inventories, but one of its most popular suppliers is Potters Workshop of South Africa. The woman behind Potters Workshop, Chris Silverston, started by working with a group of Xhosa men with no creative background and gave them a safe space with which to nurture and develop their painting skills. From this environment has evolved the renowned bead & seed like decorations which grace their ceramics, along with flowing interpretations of local flora and fauna.
You can find Savuti at the Market @ The Village on July 9th & 30th, and August 13th & 27th or you can find them at their other pop-ups, “Always June Organic Farm”- Saturday Jul 16, 2022, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, 5584 Townline Road, Niagara Falls or at “For the Love of Merlot” – Jackson Triggs Market Sep 17th, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Niagara on the Lake. To see some of Savutis products or to shop online, head to their website https://savutistyle.com/shop or follow them on Facebook @savutistyle or Instagram @savuti.co. Additionally, you can email Colette at info@savutistyle.com.
