How To Get Loco
At Loco Fields, we offer a wide range of convenient options for you to access our fresh produce. You can find us at local farmers markets, have your order delivered straight to your doorstep, visit our farm gate store, or receive wholesale and restaurant deliveries. Additionally, you can choose between in-person shopping, self-serve on-farm shopping, or make your purchases easily through our online store.
Farmers Markets
We will be attending the following markets in 2024
Evergreen Brickworks
550 Bayview ave Toronto - All Year Around Saturdays May through Oct 8am-1pm & Dec through April 9am to 1pm
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 Farm Stand at The Lobby by Heaps & Estrin
1120 Yonge Street Toronto, corner of Yonge & McPherson May through Oct, Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2pm to 6:30pm
Our Produce is available through various retail partners
Restaurants Serving Loco 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.
