Where Can I Get Local?

Get Local by choosing BC food and beverages whenever possible. To help you get started, here’s a list of businesses that are committed to selling and serving local food in the Lower Mainland and surrounding areas. They are part of the “Get Local Business Alliance.” This is a growing list and more businesses will be added shortly. To read about these companies, please see our member bio page.

Caterers & Prepared Meals:

• Edible Planet (Vancouver)
• Indishpensable (Vancouver)
• Vibrant Chef Services (Vancouver)

Shop for Local Food:

• Capers Whole Foods Market (Vancouver, West Vancouver)
• Choices Markets (Lower Mainland - various locations)
• Drive Organics (Vancouver - 1045 Commercial Drive)
• East End Food Cooperative (Vancouver - East)
• Edible British Columbia (Vancouver - Granville Island)
• Fraser Valley Farm Direct Marketing Association (Fraser Valley)
• Grocer Gunst (Vancouver)
• Home Grow-In Grocer Ltd. (Vancouver)
• Hopcott Premium Meats (Pitt Meadows)
• NOWBC Co-op (Metro Vancouver)
• The Organic Grocer (Surrey)
• Planet Organic Market (Port Coquitlam)
• Sprouts (Vancouver - UBC)
• spud! (Vancouver - Granville Island)
• Stong's Market (Vancouver - West)
• UBC Farm (Vancouver - West)
• Vancouver Farmers Markets (Vancouver - various locations)
• Veggie King Market (Richmond - Steveston)
• West Valley Market (Vancouver - Downtown)

Grocery Delivery:

• Grocer Gunst (Vancouver)
• spud! (Greater Vancouver & Sea-To-Sky)
• Stong's Market (Vancouver - West)

Dine Out for Local Food:

• C Restaurant (Vancouver)
• nu restaurant + lounge (Vancouver)
• O'Doul's Restaurant & Bar (Vancouver)
• Pair Bistro (Vancouver West)
• Raincity Grill (Vancouver - Downtown)
  

Growers, Producers:

• Apple Lane Orchard (Denman Island)
• Big Bear Ranch (Horsefly)
• Canadian Hazelnut Inc. (Agassiz)
• Forstbauer Family Natural Food Farm (Chilliwack)
• Glenwood Preserves (Langley)
• Glorious Organics Cooperative (Aldergrove)
• Goat's Pride Dairy at McLennan Creek (Abbotsford)
• Duende Farm (Maple Ridge)
• Hoodoo Ranch (Spences Bridge)
• Iron Maiden Seafoods (Sooke)
• Klippers Organic Acres (Cawston)
• Little Qualicum Cheeseworks (Parksville)
• Missing Goat Blueberry Farm (South Surrey)
• Lowland Herb Farm (Chilliwack)
• Natural Pastures Cheese Company (Courtenay)
• North Arm Farm (Pemberton)
• Ocean Amber (Vancouver)
• Painted River Farm (Surrey)
• Picked For You (Maple Ridge)
• Polderside Farms Inc. (Chilliwack)
• Poplar Grove Arbour (Agassiz)
• Queen Charlotte Seafoods Ltd. (Vancouver)
• Rockweld Farm (Abbotsford)
• Raincoast Trading Ltd. (Delta)
• Silverhill Apple Orchard (Mission)
• Similkameen River Organics (Cawston)
• Sleeping Mountain Organic Farms (Yarrow)
• Sumas Mountain Farms (Abbotsford)
• The Farm House Natural Cheeses (Agassiz)
• Vale Farms Grassroots Ltd. (Lumby)
• Yarrow EcoVillage Farm (Chilliwack)

Food Processors:

• Anita's Organic Grain and Flour Mill Ltd. (Retail & Wholesale - Chilliwack)
• Estevan Tuna Co. (BC wild Albacore tuna - Courtenay)
  
• Johnston Packers Ltd. (Chilliwack)
  
• Meadowfresh Dairy Corp (Dairy products for food service - Coquitlam)
• Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. (Hardbite Potato Chips - Maple Ridge)
• Nichol Fine Foods (Gone Crackers - Surrey)

Local Food Distributors:

• BC Fresh Inc.
• Biovia Organic Link Ltd.
• Hopcott Premium Meats
• Seaside Marketing
• spud! (Distributing Avalon Dairy Products in Greater Vancouver & Sea-to-Sky)

Local Food Initiatives in Metro Vancouver:

• 100 Mile Diet Society
• Association of BC Farmers Markets
• Edible Vancouver Magazine
• FarmFolk/CityFolk Society
• Fraser Valley Farm Direct Marketing Association
• Local Food First
• Small Scale Food Processor Association
• Vancouver Farmers Market

Visit our HOW page for more resources.