Ross Ferry Farm Market

Seal Island Artisans is a group of creative friends who love to get together and encourage each other in creating unique gifts.

At MayFlourBakes, I make fresh baked goods for you to enjoy. I will primarily be selling cookies, brownies, and lemon bars with occasional weekly specials. Follow me on Instagram for more information.

Silver Birch Acres is a small-scale market garden in Boularderie Centre. We grow a variety of vegetables within a ¼ acre garden, using a permanent raised bed system. Canning and preserves are also made as appropriate vegetables ripen. Using a broadfork, compost and organic amendments are added to the soil and use cover crops to add organic matter back into the soil. We do not spray, use chemicals or pesticides. We are very passionate in growing healthy vegetables, growing a healthy community. 

Janet is a painter (acrylic, oil) who works with found objects. She loves colour, textures, and different ways of creating art. She also carves, crochets rugs, sweaters, bears, owls, turtles and mice. Folk art is her passion, making whirlygigs (mechanical, non-mechanical) and weathervanes. 

On July 1st, August 3rd and August 31st, join the Ross Ferry Farm Market vendors at the Ross Ferry Marine Park and participate in the long weekend celebrations. 

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Be sure to stop by for fries & hot dogs every Sunday all summer from 12pm - 4pm. 

A book table to browse, check out or return books, audiobooks, & DVD’s.

Original watercolour greeting cards and prints with an emphasis on Cape Breton themes.

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Watercolour was a hobby which turned into a passion — leading to a children’s book for her grandnieces, which in turn led to creating greeting cards and small works of art, now her main focus.

Her creative cards and unique hand made items have people returning multiple times!

Born and raised in Alder Point, Cape Breton - I’ve always had a deep rooted attachment to home. My happy place is being outdoors, barefoot in the grass connecting with nature. The woods has forever been my playground; it’s also where I find much of my inspiration, as well as tools I use in creating my various works of art. I’m a maker of many different things; ranging from hand-made natural soaps, bath bombs, and candles- to fresh baked goods using my favorite and most treasured recipes. What I am most passionate about though, is my artwork. I use a variety of mediums; including paint on canvas, clay sculpting, woodwork and pyrography- and some odds and ends in between. I so look forward to sharing my creations, discovering the expressions of my fellow makers, and meeting new friends in the process!

Happy Frolicking! 

Looking forward to offering you a variety of beautiful “Cape Breton hardy” perennials, some ready-to-blossom tomato and pepper plants, a few unusual annuals and lilies, as well as vegetables, fresh and dried herbs and even hand-crafted walking sticks and canes. All our plants are grown from seed or division in our greenhouse and ever-expanding market gardens.  We grow without any chemicals or pesticides, with assistance from bees and beneficial insects, using composts and local aged manures to enrich our soils.  Check out our Facebook page weekly to see what’s coming to the Market.  See you there!

Fresh produce, fruits and preserves. 

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Handmade, wheel thrown, functional stoneware pottery, using my own glazing recipes.

Nearly "retired" chef trying to live out my market gardener dream. We moved to Cape Breton in the spring of 2022 to be closer to family and in search of a more community focused life for our son... PLUS a bit more land for our mastiff to roam.

We are currently a 1/3 acre NCO (non certified organic) market garden following the soil management philosophies of NO-TILL and JADAM. We will be offering a variety of heirloom vegetables, sprouts and gourmet mushrooms for this season. 

We look forward to meeting you this summer.

Born and raised in Southside Boularderie, Pamela grew up immersed in her father's dutch farming culture. Part of the family's Island Point Farm life included the beloved "farm shore" where a strong passion for beach combing was born. Hunting for unique pieces of driftwood and other treasure naturally turned into a collection of finds. This collection combined with the love of painting inspired her Christmas in Cape Breton driftwood Santas. Every Santa is hand picked from the Bras d'Or Lake's shoreline. The unique faces are inspired by the tides which create the rustic characteristics of each Santa. 

Claudia and Sebastian grow a variety of vegetables and highly nutritious microgreens without using any chemicals and pesticides and also sell eggs from their free range happy hens. These include ground cherries, beets, carrots, parsnip, romaine lettuce, kale, swiss chard, onions, green onions, zucchini, and patty pan squash! Moving forward into September with the market you can expect to see winter squash, buttercrunch lettuce, tomatoes, tomatillos, and inca berries! You will hear nothing but praise from their customers, who appreciate the freshness, and the quality of their produce! So if you are looking for a healthy addition to your meals, and want to support your local growers, then be sure to check out Southside Pastures!

Traneholm (pronounced tron-ah-home) means island of cranes in Danish. For the past ten years, publisher and writer Douglas Arthur Brown of Ross Ferry, turns his attention to his gardens each year in early May, lifting over 300 perennials (30-40 varieties depending on the year) from their outdoor winter beds. The result are beautiful plants that have been nurtured and hardened-off to suit our overall 5B zone in Cape Breton. No chemical fertilizers are used, only natural compost.

Sharon is a versatile artist/artisan living in Dartmouth with a primary focus on her lifelong passion for watercolour painting . In addition to her interest in painting and the fine arts, Sharon also loves to experiment with new ideas for creating from local, recycled and naturally sourced products. Nothing is really off limits when it comes to inspiration in her creative pursuits. 

From our roadside store, Andrew & Darryl offer a wide variety of home preserved items such as jams, jellies, pickles, salsas, chows, sauces and our fan favourite Everything Spice. You can also find vanilla extract, honey and maybe even some baked goods!

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For the 2025 season, we'll also have a selection of books from Boularderie Island Press, some fresh produce provided by Bull & Tree Farm, and amazing sourdough bread provided by Couling & Co. 

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You don't want to miss this stop! Come down and see everything we have to offer. ​​

Boulardarie Island Press, with headquarters in Ross Ferry, is happy to continue offering a selection of our titles at Walker's Farm & Preservery. We are also happy to announce that our most popular title, “Beaches of Cape Breton” has been revised and updated in time for the 2025 beach season.

Bull and Tree farm produces vegetables, preserves and baking.  We strive to provide high quality, locally grown produce for our customers, all grown without synthetic fertilizers or synthetic pesticides.  

Couling & Co. was born from a dream, Bec's passion for baking, and a love for sharing good food with great people. Our story started in 2023 in a tiny AirBnB kitchen, where Bec first began baking sourdough for Tori's fellow nurses while she worked as a travel nurse in beautiful mainland Nova Scotia.

What started as a simple joy of feeding others quickly grew into something bigger—a calling to bring handcrafted, slow-fermented sourdough and delicious Gluten-friendly baked goods to Celiacs like Tori and to our community. With a leap of faith (and a whole lot of flour), we turned this passion into a full-time adventure. Now, we’ve planted roots on Cape Breton Island, excited to share our love of baking with our new neighbors. Every loaf we make is crafted with care, using time-honored techniques and the best ingredients to ensure each bite is something special.