{"id":68707,"date":"2025-11-26T22:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=68707"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:59:59","slug":"sackville-farmers-markets-new-winter-location-drawing-positive-reviews-new-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/sackville-farmers-markets-new-winter-location-drawing-positive-reviews-new-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville Farmers’ Market’s new winter location draws positive reviews, new customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The winter<\/em> Sackville Farmers’ Market in full swing at the Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre on Saturday<\/em>. photo: Lara MacMillan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, CHMA was at the Sackville Farmers’ Market, which moved to its new winter location at the Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre at 182 Main Street four weeks ago. There are a few outdoor vendors set up along the fire lane, with the majority of market vendors set up inside at the mezzanine level of the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Blackier, the manager of the Sackville Farmers\u2019 Market, is overwhelmingly positive when speaking about the experience of inhabiting this space for the first time after a challenging location search this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Blackier, vendors and customers are really excited about the space and relieved to have secured this location through a rental agreement with the municipality of Tantramar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re really optimistic about sharing the space. There have been some challenges just settling into the new location but we’re adjusting as we go. On the whole, things have been going really well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the concerns at the outset of this new tenancy was making sure the market community and hockey community, especially on tournament weekends, were able to manage parking and other shared space challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 15th, those challenges were put to the test as the Tantramar Regional High School Lady Titans hosted their Shaune Coughlin Memorial Titan Your Skates Tournament.
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“We were anxiously anticipating that date,” says Blackier. “We were really worried about parking because we understand that the civic centre is very busy for hockey events, and we also do have our market customers as well. But overall, there was space available throughout the morning, and we’ve got good plans for the tournament on November 29th for overflow parking.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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