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| - For 2012, the farmers market moved away from the Zeller's parking lot and right beside the Colliseum Theatre. It's opened at 8 am on Friday and Sundays. It's a medium sized market that has a combination of real farmers and artisans and resellers.
One of the great things about this market is the Montforte Dairy stall. It specializes in sheep and goat milk cheese. It's ridiculously good. With a large variety of cheeses, I'm always salivating when I'm purchasing it. They have fresh cheese curds, mozzarella, pecorino, feta, halloumi, gouda, aged cheddar, smoked cheddars, jalapeno cheese, as you can tell they have a lot! The seller is also very nice and patient with indecisive buyers like me.
There is a fair bit of baked goods sellers and though some of them are just ok. There's a little strudel stall that is amazing. An old Eastern European man who is charming and he mans the stall. The smell of freshly baked apple, strawberrry, or peach strudels is addicting.
Overall, there are a lot more resellers year over year which is disappointing. I would say it feels like 75% resellers and 25% real farmers. I would prefer to go to the Etobicoke Civic Market or go downtown to the other farmers market. But in a pinch, the prices here are not horrible and for those who live in the west end, it's closer than the other markets.
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