Graze & Gather is retailer and distributor of diverse food and ingredients from hundreds of small farms and producers.  Our online ordering allows farmers and growers to harvest at the optimal point of taste, ensuring that all of the ingredients are enjoyed when they are as fresh as possible.  We believe that a community of farmers and food lovers can inspire the change needed to protect the health and wellness of our planet, one ingredient at a time.

For more than 60 years, Kozlik’s mustards has been family-owned and operated. What started as a small stand at the St. Lawrence Market selling mustards from grandmother Kozlik’s repertoire of recipes has grown to an extensive product line of more than 35 types of the condiment, ranging from traditional Dijon-style to balsamic fig-and-date-flavoured mustard. But after six decades, it was time to show the world what else the mighty mustard seed can do.

First skeptical of his mother-in-law’s home-brewed kombucha, it took Michael Doehle a week of drinking it to become a convert. And his mother-in-law’s passed-down SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) laid the foundation for VAMS Culture, the company he founded with his wife Vanessa Montemurro in their Parkdale home in 2010. VAMS, which stands for Vanessa and Michael, is now a line of distinct superfood-based kombuchas and eye-popping fluorescent-hued kefir waters. Kefir water uses a culture introduced to Doehle as Japanese water crystals, which he says resemble gummy bears.

Chef Jose Hadad got his first taste of professional cooking at the age of 17. But it was long before then that he became hooked on being a chef, all thanks to his grandmothers. He watched them meticulously make dishes from the simplest ingredients while growing up in Mexico City. Fast forward to 2006, Hadad arrived in Toronto, bought himself a small table at the St. Lawrence Market and started selling fresh, authentic Mexican products.