Tej Essentials is founder Pam Kaur’s tribute to her mother: oils handcrafted in small batches from mostly organic ingredients. The brand is rooted in holistic, yogic living and a return to natural care.

• Crafts

Honey Guru Inc. is a family-owned and operated food, health, and wellness brand proudly headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with deep ancestral roots in Westmoreland, Jamaica—home to our dedicated Hunni Gurus Apiary. We craft high-quality, handcrafted all-natural bee products, including raw honey, botanically infused honey, and signature sauces.

• Honey
• Caribbean
• Jamaican

We communicate to people through food and wellness.

candlesandpalms, owned by Sandy Fawcett, hand-pours environmentally sourced soy candles and wax melts meant to burn for up to 50 hours. Based in Ajax, she also runs candlesandpalms cafe in Highland Creek and sells scented soy candles at Courtyard and Scarborough farmers' markets.

• Crafts

Healthy Belly Food, owned by Juddy Charles in Ajax, makes sea moss gel, smoothies, and juices from herbs and sea moss. The business uses nature's gifts of herbs and sea moss to support immune health and daily energy with products taken directly from nature.

• Prepared food

La Mermaid Noir, owned by Eleshia Thomas, makes metaphysical crystal jewelry for healing, meditation, and everyday wear, including rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants, anklets, and keychains.

• Crafts
• Jewellery

Malvern Urban Farm is a three-acre community farm in Scarborough's Finch hydro corridor, launched in 2021 as part of the City of Toronto's CEED garden program. About 25 farming groups grow culturally relevant produce such as callaloo, bitter melon, spinach, zucchini, hot peppers, eggplant, and herbs.

• Produce

Michelle's Catering serves Jamaican yard-style jerk chicken with rice and peas, coco bread, and coleslaw. The stall also sells jerk chicken sandwiches and homemade jerk BBQ sauce at the Courtyard and Scarborough farmers' markets.

• Prepared food
• Caribbean
• Jamaican

MomFlavor, founded by Negar Honarpisheh in Richmond Hill, makes small-batch jams from fresh fruit using recipes from her cultural background, including sour cherry, carrot, strawberry, mixed berry, and pumpkin pie jam. The business also sells vegan, sugar-free chocolate-covered stuffed dates.

• Preserves
• Vegan

Nora's Bakery, founded by Nora Bahgat in 2020, specializes in custom halal cookies, cupcakes, and cakes made in a Mississauga commercial kitchen. The bakery also offers vegan, gluten-free, keto, and low-sugar options, with pickup in Mississauga and delivery across the GTA.

• Bakery
• Gluten-free
• Vegan

Nutilicious Foods, owned by Anne in Scarborough, makes a plant-based snack with a light, yogurt-like texture from four ingredients and no additives. Flavours include pistachio, hazelnut, almond, walnut, and black sesame.

• Vegan

Pfenning's Organic Farms is a family-owned certified organic vegetable farm in New Hamburg, Ontario, growing organically since 1981 on more than 700 acres. Best known for carrots, they also grow leafy greens, brassicas, squash, and other root vegetables, and pack produce from a network of Ontario organic growers.

• Organic
• Produce

Prevailing Organic Essentials, founded by Tamika Martells, handcrafts small-batch natural soaps, bath salts, oils, and serums. Products are made with ingredients such as lavender, roses, Epsom salt, essential oils, and carrier oils, without harsh chemicals.

• Crafts

PriZurv, owned by Brian Doody in Etobicoke, makes restaurant-style jams, pickles, and spreads from ingredients at peak freshness. After 15 years in GTA restaurants, Doody preserves flavours such as pear-onion jam, apple butter, preserved lemons, and fermented jalapeños without the artificial flavours of mass-produced jam.

• Preserves

Pure Maya Mexican Vegan is a Toronto Mexican family sharing traditional recipes and heritage through vegan, gluten-free Mexican food.

• Gluten-free
• Prepared food
• Vegan
• Mexican

Samosa Delight is run by sisters Nina and Yasmin, who continue the Somali samosa recipes of their mother Asha, once known as the Samosa Lady of Weston from her Weston Road restaurant Wiif. They sell homemade halal beef and veggie samosas at Scarborough and Courtyard farmers' markets.

• Prepared food
• Indian
• Somali

San Jose Mexican Foods, owned by Brenda Cortes and Chef Rodriguez, makes scratch-cooked Mexican food from family recipes from Puerto Morelos, including flautas and salsas. Everything is prepared from local ingredients in a commercial kitchen on St. Clair West.

• Prepared food
• Mexican

The Paleo Palate Cafe, owned by Snehal Vaidya, is a Toronto bakery making handmade gluten-free, paleo, dairy-free, and vegan desserts from all-natural ingredients with no preservatives or additives.

• Bakery
• Gluten-free
• Vegan

Vzzz's Caribbean Catering, owned by Veenece Mapp, specializes in seafood dishes inspired by her upbringing in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and also sells gluten-free Cajun garlic butter sauces and frozen shrimp.

• Gluten-free
• Prepared food
• Seafood
• Caribbean

Wander Nut Butters is a Toronto husband-and-wife team, led by Jared Kligerman, that makes internationally inspired spiced peanut butters such as Moroccan, Thai, and Indian from peanuts, spices, and salt.

• Indian
• Mediterranean
• Middle Eastern
• Moroccan
• Thai

Winnie's Fine Foods, owned by Brian Austin, makes Mama Winnie's Hot Pepper Sauce, a Trinidadian-style pepper sauce made from fresh ingredients using a family recipe.

• Caribbean
• Trinidadian