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104th Street By Emil Tiedemann Whyte Avenue in Old Strathcona has always been that street where locals and tourists head to for a day of shopping and brunch, or a night of beers and dancing, but there’s another strip here in Edmonton that’s enticing and pulling in some of Strathcona’s clientele. It’s 104th Street in the downtown, in between Jasper and 104th Avenues, leading right into Ice District and its Rogers Place .    People enjoying the fresh food, live music, and hot sun at the City Market along 104th Street. Over the last five or six years, the area has become home to towering condo developments, streetscaping and restorations, and a surge of complimentary urbane business owners, like TZiN Wine & Tapas , Evoolution , Kelly’s Pub , Credo Coffee , Jacek Chocolate Couture , The Cavern , Workhall Boutique , Blue Plate Diner , and at the very tip, along Jasper, Corso32 .  If you happen to drop in on the weekend, there’s the City Market Downtown (whi...

Old Strathcona Farmers' Market By Emil Tiedemann “We make it! We bake it! We grow it! We sell it!” That’s a philosophy that the Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market has been committed to since it first began selling local foods and crafts out of a parking lot on the corner of 103 Street and 83 Avenue.  There were only about a dozen vendors that first year, in ‘83, offering up locally-grown produce and baked goods, and hand-made crafts from local artisans. Three years in, the market remained just a block off Whyte Avenue, but took the show indoors, moving across the street into the “Old Bus Barns” along Gateway Boulevard.  More than three decades later, there are about 300 rotating vendors - chosen through a strict jury process - that fill up nearly 190 stalls every Saturday from 7AM to 2:30 in the afternoon, and 10,000 weekly visitors make it the largest farmers’ market in the city.  Although the market is year round, it is at its peak during the summer month...