UPCOMING EVENTS:
Check out our events calendar for more details!
Gift and Consignment Shop Regular Business Hours
Thursday 12:00-6:00
Friday 10:00-5:00
Saturday 10:00-4:00
Sunday 2:00-6:00
2022 Events
5/19/22 (Thursday) Small Business Series: Preparing a Budget from 6:15-7:15 pm
5/21/22 (Saturday) Niagara SPCA Spring into Summer Craft S
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Check out our events calendar for more details!
Gift and Consignment Shop Regular Business Hours
Thursday 12:00-6:00
Friday 10:00-5:00
Saturday 10:00-4:00
Sunday 2:00-6:00
2022 Events
5/19/22 (Thursday) Small Business Series: Preparing a Budget from 6:15-7:15 pm
5/21/22 (Saturday) Niagara SPCA Spring into Summer Craft Show 10:00-2:00 Offsite! Third Warder's Social Club, 147 12th Avenue, North Tonawanda
Note: Gift Shop will be open from 3:00-6:00.
5/26/22 (Thursday) Plant-Based Cooking Class from 6:15-7:30. See courses tab for registration.
5/29/22 Retro Block's Rockabilly Garage Sale 12:00-5:00. Accepting vendors who sell retro/vintage items.
6/2/22 (Thursday) Small Business Series: Q&A from 6:15-7:30. See courses tab for registration.
6/9/22 (Thursday) Plant-Based Cooking Class from 6:15-7:30 pm. See courses tab for registration.
6/16/22 (Thursday) Small Business Series from 6:15-7:30 pm. Topic TBA.
6/19/22 (Sunday) Juneteenth/Father's Day Pop-Up Market 2:00-6:00
6/23/22 (Thursday) Plant-Based Cooking Class from 6:15-7:30 pm. See courses tab for registration.
6/24/22 (Friday) Cat Adoption Event with Cat by Cat from 12:00-5:00 pm. Foster applications will be available too! It is kitten season, so come to fall in love!
6/26/22 (Sunday) We will have a booth at Asha Sanctuary's Kiss a Cow event! Meet Albert the cow and all of his friends. Tours of the sanctuary, live music, great food, and vendors. 11:00-3:00. 2969 Coomer Road, Newfane. The Gift Shop will be CLOSED.
8/14/22 (Sunday) Summer Pop-Up Market 2:00-6:00
10/29/22 (Saturday) Halloween and Anniversary Pop-Up Market 11:00-3:00
12/3/22 (Saturday) Holiday Arts and Craft Show 11:00-4:00
12/17/22 (Saturday) Holiday Pop-Up Market 11:00-3:00
ONGOING/ EVENTS:
Food Not Bombs Niagara Chapter donation site. Drop off non-perishable and frozen food items during shop hours or during events. We also accept plastic wrap, disposable utensils, and new food containers.
Membership Drive! Sign up to become a member of The Vegan Center for just $25/year! Family membership is $40/year. Sign up at the shop and receive a gift!
Resource Center is open during Shop hours. Everyone is welcome to browse. Members may check out books, DVDs, and CDs for up to 2 weeks.
Coming Soon:
Yoga, Wellness and Fitness Classes
Health and Nutrition Seminars
Let us know what classes and events you would like to see held at The Vegan Center!
Speaking Engagements
Topics Include:
- Look Great, Feel Great, Be Great on a Vegan (or Plant-Based) Diet
- Transitioning to a Vegan Lifestyle
- Vegan for the Environment
- DIY Workshops - homemade toiletries and household products
- Not Quite Cooking Vegan Cooking Class
- How to (and NOT to) Read Food Labels
Contact me for more informat
Speaking Engagements
Topics Include:
- Look Great, Feel Great, Be Great on a Vegan (or Plant-Based) Diet
- Transitioning to a Vegan Lifestyle
- Vegan for the Environment
- DIY Workshops - homemade toiletries and household products
- Not Quite Cooking Vegan Cooking Class
- How to (and NOT to) Read Food Labels
Contact me for more information!
(Shown above accepting the Moo-Velicious Bake-Off Award from Albert Brown and Tracy Murphy (standing) for Best in Show. Seated: Celebrity Judge Doug McNish and Michael Broderick and Robin Fauling, co-owners of the Orange Cat Coffee Co. in Lewiston, NY.)
On April 15, 2015, The Vegan Educator earned her Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator certificate through Main Street Vegan Academy.
On May 31, 2015, The Vegan Educator participated in the Moo-velicious Vegan Bake-Off at Asha Sanctuary. I won the peoples' choice BEST IN CATEGORY and the judges' choice BEST IN SHOW. I now sell my award win
On April 15, 2015, The Vegan Educator earned her Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator certificate through Main Street Vegan Academy.
On May 31, 2015, The Vegan Educator participated in the Moo-velicious Vegan Bake-Off at Asha Sanctuary. I won the peoples' choice BEST IN CATEGORY and the judges' choice BEST IN SHOW. I now sell my award winning cookie bars and many other baked goods at many of my shows.
On June 2, 2018 the Vegan Pop-Up Markets were launched! The Market is now a quarterly event.
On February 10, 2019, The Vegan Educator earned her certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.
On September 16, 2019, Project Vegan 716, LLC was formed to further the work done by The Vegan Educator.
On October 31, 2020 The Vegan Center opened its doors for its first indoor event, a Halloween Trick or Treat event and Vendor Market.
On November 27, 2020 The Vegan Center Gift and Consignment Shop opens its doors!
On December 17 2020, City of Tonawanda Mayor Rick Scott performed a ribbon cutting ceremony at The Vegan Center.
On October 28, 2021, we kicked off our one-year anniversary celebration with a ribbon cutting ceremony with The Chamber of Commerce of the Tonawandas.
We got a lot of new items in our shop, including these handsewn baby dolls. We also have handsewn microwave potato bags microwave bowl holders in two sizes, and finger mitts!
New product just arrived: pickled garlic! Also enjoy their pickled beets, onions, and dilly beans as well as a variety of fruit butter and all natural cane sugar.
We started our Small Business Series where you will learn many aspects of starting and running a small business.
We now carry Flourish Cafe products, including soup mixes, trail mix, granola, and all-natural peanut butter. Flourish Cafe products are plant-based and oil free!
It is not easy starting a business during a pandemic! https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/covid-19-how-vegan-entrepreneurs-have-shifted-during-the-pandemic/
Our exclusively vegan kitchen is spectacular! All brand new equipment, including a double deck convection oven, 6-burner stove with two ovens and a grill, spacious refrigerator, upright freezer, ample prep tables, and a 20 quart mixer. Available to rent 24/7/365!