This is not your typical pop in for a quart of milk and pop right out kind of shop. Once you’re in The Big Carrot Natural Food Market, you’re sure to be there for quite a while.

In addition to their natural food products, The Big Carrot has a wholistic dispensary, in-store nutritionists to offer sage advice, lectures on health and environmental issues and a corner dedicated to cooking classes.

The Big Carrot has been around since 1983 and this worker-owner cooperative and natural food retailer knows how to make a customer glow like a carrot stick.

If you’re here to shop, sidle over to the meat section for steaks worthy of a weekend barbeque. Most of their beef comes from local cattle that is grass-fed, free to roam and all is devoid of hormones and antibiotics.

Perhaps you’d prefer seafood like wild-caught BC sockeye salmon or organic New Zealand greenshell mussels. Or maybe you wanna spice up your cuisine with some organic lamb or pork sausages. If cooking is not your style, head over to the frozen section and take home some sprouted grain pizzas, gluten-free burritos or samosas and pakoras. 

And if all this makes you a tad peckish, step right up to the Organic Juice Bar where you can munch on organic salads or sandwiches, quench your thirst with freshly-squeezed juices, or indulge in a fair-trade cup of coffee or tea.

You’ll be growing out of baby carrots in no time.