03/30/2026
The Market Stand is back.
Tuesday, March 31
Open. Every. Day.
April and May hours: 10am - 6pm
(Will extend hours to 7am - 9pm in late May)
Where’s the Stand?
811 Durham Street, Kincardine
Canadian Tire parking lot.
Hey everyone, it’s Andrew here. Thought I’d share a few words…
Reemerging from her wintry, snow-squalled hiatus, Commonplace’s pine-tabled outdoor aisles will be filling up with food grown by your neighbours. Our 6th year on the asphalt, this year we are committed to beautifying the layout and improving functionality of the stand while staying true to our values: locality, seasonality, quality, transparency, accountability and affordability; fair prices that dictate the true value and cost of growing food, fair prices that reward small farmers on small acreages with sustainable growing practices.
Commonplace is a market that actually supports our local agricultural landscape and the many family farms that encompass our area, promoting and encouraging new farmers or established farmers to grow new, specific crops or grow more established crops, by providing ample shelf and cooler space for their yields.
Commonplace is a proper local food hub. And when we say local, we mean Kincardine, Ripley, Tiverton, Holyrood, Lucknow, Gorrie, Wroxeter, Goderich: an intimate geography, a potentially abundant geography… and when we need to go a little further down the road, we mean Elmira, Dorking, Wallenstein, Exeter, still fairly close by. These are your neighbours, integrity and familial know-how, pride and affection still intact: these are your farmers and bakers, preservers and foragers, sap boilers and orchardists, beekeepers and shepherds.
We are motivated by the strength of smallness, neighbourliness, stewardship, devotion to our hometown and townships, passionate about finding joy and gratitude in each other and how our food can generously and generationally bind us together. Our hands aren’t tied, the market stand is able to freely and openly serve as a direct bridge from local farmers to your homes.
vegetables, fruits, herbs, maple syrup, honey, bread, baked goods, preserves, beverages, bouquets and so much more.
The shelves, crates’n bushel baskets will continue to fill out and diversify as our dormant lakeside soils awaken, as seeds are sown’n sprout, as stalks’n stems uncoil skyward, as crews of field hands dot the horizon at dawn… and their multi-faceted approaches; mechanized, machinery, gear-driven, hand-hewn tools, theirs minds; troubleshooting, problem-solving, focused, their muscles; animal and human… get down to the good, all-day work of growing and tending to food, to medicine, to the land, to creation, to feed and nourish their own places. This labour is a daily dance with life itself.
We warmly invite you to join us for another season at The Stand, of celebrating the simple, staple acts of life; sow and reaping, toiling and resting, preparing and eating… hand in hand…
“Eating is an Agricultural Act”
-Wendell Berry
