How To Get Loco
Retail Customers
Our produce is available at farmers markets, and can be ordered online for home delivery through our retail partner IndieFood. We are currently not offering farm pick up, but hope to add this back in soon, along with reopening our farm store.
Restaurants, Wholesale Customers & Retailers
Our produce is available through our online store for deliveries into many parts of Ontario, from London to Ottawa, Niagara, GTA, Owen Sound to Barrie, and in between. We also work with Indie Food Wholesale for ordering our products alongside other producers
Farmers Markets
Below is a list of farmers markets that we are currently attending.
Evergreen Brickworks
550 Bayview ave Toronto - All Year Around Saturdays May through Oct 8am-1pm & Dec through April 9am to 1pm
Allan Gardens
Located in a beautiful historic 1800’s glass greenhouse, and hosted by the Friends of Allan Gardens
All Year Around - Saturdays 10-2
Stratford Sunday Market
Market Square Behind City Hall, Downtown Stratford May through Oct 10-2
Underpass Market
29 Lower River Street, Toronto end of may through Oct 4pm-7:30pm
Our Produce is available through various retail partners
Remark Fresh Markets in London, Carrying Greens for the Salad Bar
Restaurants Serving Loco Products
Legacy Greens - Kitchener, Carrying Various Products
Raise The Root - Leslieville, Toronto, Carrying Various Products
The Flour Mill - St. Marys, Carrying Various Products
A brief history of how sell and distribute our produce
The Begining
We started out attending the Slow Food Market on Sundays in Stratford and at the same time, began knocking on Stratford restaurant kitchen doors. We would visit chefs on Tuesdays, often with the trunk loaded with veggies and samples, and take orders for delivery. We expanded into St Marys, attending our first Saturday market. Shortly after, we had a booth in London at the Western Fair Farmers Market and began delivering to London restaurant and small independent retailers. Along the way, Kitchener deliveries were added, along with many small markets. In 2019, we began researching and applying to Toronto markets, and a Loco booth was born at the Evergreen Brickworks Market.
The Pandemic & The Pivot
With the greenhouses all planted and ready for our spring harvest, markets closed & restaurants closed, we had to pivot qucikly. Within 24 hours we created a website and started offering home delivery & wholesale delivery of our produce and other goods from like-minded producers, that were also left scrambling to continue business. We offered delivery From Toronto to London, while picking up from producers along the way.
The World Opens Back Up
As things reopened, the deliveries dwindled, restaurants began ordering again and we made the decision to strarted attending markets again, bringing us back to Brickworks in Toronto and ending our online retail store. We then began attending more markets, continuing with restaurant and wholesale deliveries, opening our farm gate store, and offering retail deliveries again, this time focusing on our own products.
