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96 Women-Led Alberta Food Businesses

To celebrate International Women’s Day, here are 96 Women-Led Alberta Food Businesses to support. There’s something on this list for any appetite and we are so happy to see it grow each year. So, go on out and show them some appreciation this week and always. Happy International Women’s Day. For us, that’s every day!

Calgary and Area

  1. River Cafe
  2. Deane House
  3. Cluck N Cleaver
  4. Cochu Chocolatier
  5. Peasant Cheese
  6. Pie Junkie
  7. Pretty Sweet Bake Shop
  8. Cookbook Co Cooks
  9. Crave Cupcakes
  10. Lannie Rae Gourmet
  11. Decadent Brulee
  12. Mother May I
  13. Flavour YYC 
  14. Hey Sugar 
  15. Mighty Pines Cocktail Co.
  16. Goldie Chocolates
  17. The Sweatered Hen and Lil’ Black Rooster
  18. Jane Bond BBQ
  19. Wild Folk Beverages
  20. Jin Bar
  21. Charcut 
  22. Annabelle’s Kitchen 
  23. The Chocolate Lab
  24. Yum Bakery
  25. The Cherry Pit and Better Fresh
  26. Innisfail Growers
  27. Sunworks Farm
  28. Two Greek Gals
  29. Primal Soup Co
  30. Dolce Veloce
  31. Noto Gelato
  32. Mercato West
  33. Satsuki Japanese Restaurant
  34. Spragg’s Meat Shop
  35. The Silk Road Spice Merchant
  36. Empire Provisions
  37. Mob Honey
  38. ABC Bees
  39. Sidewalk Citizen Bakery and Park by Sidewalk

Edmonton and Area

  1. Awn Kitchen
  2. Colleen’s Chocolates
  3. Duchess Bake Shop
  4. Italian Centre Shop
  5. Jacek Chocolate Couture
  6. Prairie Gardens
  7. Gold Forest Grains
  8. Grey Arrow Farm
  9. Thundering Ground Bison Ranch 
  10. Kind Ice Cream
  11. Mojo Jojo Pickles
  12. On Our Table 
  13. Little Bird Baking 
  14. Fifth Gen Gardens
  15. Chocolate Escapade
  16. Sugared and Spiced Baked Goods
  17. The Woodrack Cafe
  18. Tiramisu Bistro
  19. Brew + Bloom
  20. Red House Salsa 
  21. Compass Chocolates
  22. Brown’s Curiosities and Chocolate Oddities
  23. Get Cooking
  24. Rock Ridge Dairy 
  25. Ocean Odyssey Inland
  26. Riverbend Gardens
  27. Rge Rd
  28. Twisted Fork in St. Paul
  29. The Cheesiry in Kitscoty

The Bow Valley and Jasper

  1. Communitea Cafe
  2. Le Fournil Bakery
  3. Sauvage
  4. Harvest Cafe
  5. Le Chocolatier
  6. Canmore Tea Company
  7. Jolene’s Tea
  8. Wild Grazing
  9. Mahikan Trails
  10. Pinecone Box Gifts
  11. Jasper Food Tours

Southern Alberta

  1. The Cooking Room – Red Deer
  2. Ophelia Outpost – Bellevue in the Crowsnest Pass
  3. Homestead Bakeshop – Fort McLeod
  4. Zucchini Blossom Market and Cafe – Medicine Hat
  5. Winter’s Turkey Farm – Dalemead
  6. Trail’s End Beef – Parkland
  7. Tender Living Farm 
  8. The Westwood
  9. Highwood Crossing Foods – High River
  10. The Noble Teahouse – High River
  11. Poplar Bluff Organics – Strathmore
  12. Forge and Farm – Millarville
  13. Umami Shop – Lethbridge
  14. Noble Meadows Farm – Nobleford
  15. TK Ranch – Spondin in Special Areas 2 and Langdon
  16. Bauer Meats – Three Hills
  17. PaSu Farms – Carstairs

**And or course, we also need to include our own company, Alberta Food Tours. We are in Calgary, Edmonton, Canmore, and Banff and we’ve been woman-led by our founder, Karen Anderson, for 19 years.

Did we miss your favourite independent, Alberta, woman-led, food business? Drop us a line (nicole@albertafoodtours.ca) and we’ll add them to this fabulous list.

headshot of Karen Anderson