Eating local/organic in NDG

[jnross]

My husband and I have just moved to Montréal and I am having a hard time finding organic and fair trade products. Does anyone know of a good place to go for that kind of thing?

Also, I recall reading something about food baskets that can be ordered from local farms. Does anyone know anything about those (such as when they are available, cost, etc.)?

Thanks so much!

[kpzoo]

Welcome! Some places to explore in NDG:

Coop La Maison Verte - http://www.cooplamaisonverte.com/
- aside from being a fair-trade/organic store, they have various CSA's (the farms you refer to) that sell produce to the public on certain days of the week - check the schedule with the Coop

Mondiana Grocery - southeast corner Sherbrooke W. & Cavendish (lots of organic)

Ecollegey - http://www.ecollegey.com/ (organic)

Fleur Sauvage - http://www.fleursauvage.ca/ (natural-foods store, lots of organic)

A Votre Santé - 5126 rue Sherbrooke O (natural-foods store, lots of organic)

myAntidote - http://www.myantidote.ca/ - fairly new organic grocery store on Sherbrooke, also sells online & serves meals in the store/bistro

Big list of CSA's with delivery neighbourhoods listed. Contact each farm for details: http://montreal.about.com/od/shopping/a/mtl_food_basket.htm

Equiterre - association that lists local CSAs & has lots of info on fair-trade (French only): http://www.equiterre.org/

It's likely too late to get a share in the summer/fall basket, but some farms do winter baskets.

Hope this gets you started!

[kpzoo]

Oh, I should also add that there's an outlet of Ten Thousand Villages on Monkland, and they have a section with fair-trade foods like coffee, chocolate, sugar, etc.

http://www.tenthousandvillages.ca/cgi...

And Loblaws (St-Jacques & Cavendish) has a fairly big selection of organic stuff now, too - both produce and other goods in the "health food" aisle.

[jnross]

Thanks so much! This is more than enough to get me started. I'm looking forward to exploring all these new places!

[kpzoo]

My pleasure. I'd love to know what you think once you've had a chance to check some of them out!

[maisonbistro]

If I am not mistaken, I think Ten Thousand Villages has closed (or at least moved).

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Ten Thousand Villages
4128 Rue Saint-Denis, Montreal, QC H2W2M5, CA

[kpzoo]

They're still on Monkland, but on the north side of the street - still very much open, next to the kitchen store.

[jnross]

Update: myAntidote appears to be closed now. There's a for rent sign up in the window and the place looks barren. I guess business wasn't going so well? Strange, they were only there for a short time. Unfortunately I never got a chance to visit them.

[sagebrooks]

I'm not surprised - their products were very expensive, especially compared to most of the other organic/fair trade options around, and they had a very limited selection. The space was also too small to really be an eat-in café/resto and they only had a couple of tables. It wasn't very welcoming a space. I was excited when they first opened but I ended up only going to eat there once.