Annual Spring Market
May
7

Annual Spring Market

Celebrate warmer days, lots of sunshine, and no more snow (we can dream, right?) with us at our second Annual Spring Market.

Just like last year, it’ll be the day before Mother’s Day — the perfect opportunity to pick up something local and unique for a special caretaker in your life.

Sign up to be a vendor here!

Browse the goods of creative and spectacular local vendors, sign up to be a volunteer at this year’s summer markets, and stop by our “ideas and innovation” booth to give us ideas for future services, activities, and events.

Check out who is coming:

  • Aurora Heat

  • Flat World Alpaca Farm / Boreale Felting

  • Early Bird Homestead

  • Polar Creations

  • Miwasin

  • Crystal Benwell Spiritual Guidance

  • Jody's Kitchen

  • Stephanie’s Silks & Sealskin crafts

  • Inspirations From the Beaufort Delta

  • Sew Fine Yarn and Design

  • Tiaga Borealis

  • Jewellery & Native Hand Crafts by Betty Dixon

  • Baked goods to fundraise for the animal shelter

  • Christine Aubrey

  • Northern Life Museum and Cultural Centre

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Annual General Meeting
Dec
2

Annual General Meeting

Join us at our AGM, where we’ll celebrate our wins from Summer 2021’s season.


We NEED you! We’re looking for at least FOUR people to step into board member roles for our upcoming 2022 season.

If that’s something you’re interested in but you have a few questions, please email us at dfm.membership@gmail.com or send us a message on social media.

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Desnedé Spring Market
May
8

Desnedé Spring Market

Desnedé Spring Market

Sign up to be a vendor!

Join us as a vendor, volunteer, or visitor!

Mother’s Day is the next day - the perfect opportunity to grab those extra goodies for a caretaker in your life!

Browse the vendor booths, sign up to be a volunteer at this year’s summer markets, learn more about what we do, and stop by the “ideas and innovation” booth to give us ideas for future workshops and events.

Print the poster here and help us promote the event!

Confirmed Vendors:

Aurora Heat

Flat World Alpaca

Naidie Nezu

Raven Good Designs

Miwasin (Sandy Poitras)

Canada-Ghana Education Project

Janette's Arts and Crafts

Joan Bevington

Anna's Home Cooking

Emelie Robertson, artist

Community Vendors:

Government of the NWT’s ITI Department (Industry, Tourism and Investment)
Stop by their booth to learn more about how you can turn your summer garden into a business, about grants and other funding opportunities as well as how to register as an NWT artist.

Library - Town of Fort Smith
Sign up for workshops with the Farmers’ Market and Fort Smith’s Library

Town of Fort Smith - Community Gardens
Sign up for your garden plot and learn more about the program!

Slide Zone Shredderz (Fort Smith Snowboarding Club)

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This event has approval from the GNWT Environmental Health Unit. To see the COVID Exposure Control Plan, please click here.

What you should know:

  • There will be a guest logbook, this information will only be used if required to assist in contact tracing.

  • Everyone not living in the same household must stay 2m (6ft) apart, and wear non-medical masks when distancing is difficult to maintain.

  • All vendors and volunteers are asked to continuously self-monitor their personal health and arrange not to participate in the market if they develop COVID-19 symptoms.

  • Please adhere to the arrows made of coloured tape on the floor.

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