The Creston Valley Farmers’ Market (CVFM) is a project under the Creston Valley Food Action Coalition (CVFAC), a registered non-profit society in the Kootenay Region of BC. The CVFM operates a weekly market eight months of the year from May through December, and monthly markets January through April. 

It provides one of the only venues for small scale producers and artisans to sell direct to consumers in the Creston Valley, but it’s been a community’s labour of love that has gotten it this far. In 2003, the first vendors started gathering for a local summer market at the Endicott Centre under a canopy of trees. It then moved up to beside the Community Garden and Town Hall for 2005/06 and ran by local volunteers. One of the Rotary Clubs in town took over the coordination of the market in 2007, and it relocated to beside Millennium Park, where the summer market remained until 2012. An indoor market was introduced in 2009 at Morris Greenhouse, providing a welcoming atmosphere for the indoor market home for the past eight years. In 2010, the Creston Valley Food Action Coalition agreed to take over the market and provide the backbone support it needs. Since 2010, the market has grown leaps and bounds and well documented through the annual reports available on our website.