About Our Charity Partners
Fresh to Families
Vancouver Farmers Markets’ Fresh to Families Program helps feed Vancouver families living with lower income and supports the livelihoods of small scale farmers. Families can shop for fresh, healthy food that is appropriate for their families' diets and cultures directly from local farmers at the farmers markets. Farmers receive the full value for each coupon, which can help boost farm income. The Fresh to Families program is always double the impact, and is currently supporting over 80 small scale farmers and feeding over 320 families in need.
Growing Chefs
Too many kids don’t know where food comes from or have access to healthy, whole food. Growing Chefs is on a mission to change that! This charity pairs teams of chef and community volunteers with elementary schools to grow vegetable gardens, conduct cooking lessons, and get kids excited about healthy food and food systems. In their classrooms, the children receive lessons on how to plant and care for a garden; nutrition and healthy eating; cooking; urban agriculture; plant growth; food security; and the impact of healthy food systems on our communities and the environment – skills and knowledge that they can take home and share with their families.
Despite the pandemic's impact on Growing Chefs' ability to visit classrooms in person, this charity has actually expanded their reach across B.C. through new virtual offerings.
About CityFood
This initiative to support small business in Great Vancouver is a project of CityFood Media.
The company’s first property, Cityfood Magazine, was published in Canada in 1992 by I.A.C.P. award-winning writer Rhonda May, and was the first independent print publication to focus on the country’s emerging food and beverage scene. Today the CityFood brand continues to cover this vital and dynamic industry via an expanded group of platforms: digital, social media, and innovative community projects such as The Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival.
About our Sponsors
Vancouver Farmers Market Society
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
Vancouver Farmers Markets (VFM) is a small non-profit organization that creates vibrant and welcoming markets that build community, feeds people, and supports small farms and producers. VFM operates all year round, with seven weekly summer markets and two weekly winter markets in neighbourhoods across the city.
Winter Marketplaces:
Riley Park (Nat Bailey Stadium): Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hastings Park:
Sundays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
New this year: One of our new vendors, Emkao Foods, will be featuring their hot chocolate creations at their booth in both markets on select dates during the Festival. See Emkao's page in the List of Flavours for details.
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
Heard weekly on BC Food & Wine Radio, Anthony Gismondi and Kasey Wilson set the table for the weekend, pointing you to great wine buys, the best in restaurant dining and all things connected to food and wine.
Be sure to tune your radio dial to TS 1410!
Daily Hive
BC Food & Wine Radio - BNN Bloomberg 1410
Made in Print
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Daily Hive is a Canadian-born online news source, established in 2008, that creates compelling, hyperlocal content. Daily Hive embraces the unique qualities that exist in a city, and reports it to produce genuine conversation among communities. With unique thematic channels, such as Dished, Mapped, and Urbanized, Daily Hive delivers top-tier information to its local audience and advertisers in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton, Seattle, and Portland.
Find them online at: DailyHive.com/Vancouver
Made in Print
Made in Print
Made in Print
Made In Print is your local printing boutique with tools to help you work faster, smarter and offers a variety of options that can be integrated seamlessly to fit your print fulfillment needs. With the most advanced colour printing and finishing equipment, they have set a high standard of quality. You will always deal with experienced print specialists who are dedicated to provide intelligent digital printing services for you.
Made In Print is truly your one-stop printing solution for all your printing needs.
Global BC
Made in Print
980 CKNW Radio
Global BC has been British Columbia’s leading television station for over 60 years. With its flagship broadcast Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui and the only provincial 24 hour news channel, Global News: BC1; Global BC is the place more British Columbians turn to for local news than any other news stations.
Global BC provides viewers with award-winning journalism, digging deeper to find the truths behind major issues that matter most to residents, and unique stories that they won’t find anywhere else.
980 CKNW Radio
Made in Print
980 CKNW Radio
"For more than 75 years, 980 CKNW has been dedicated to reporting news, sharing compelling stories, asking tough questions, holding others accountable and delivering insightful, critical commentary. 980 CKNW is BC’s most trusted source of news and conversation."
As one of our valued media sponsors, 980 CKNW will be giving away $500 worth of coupons (Hotcho Bucks) redeemable at any of our Hot Chocolate Festival vendor locations. Tune in to the Jill Bennet Show between noon and 3 p.m., January 10th to 14th, 2022.