As a craft vendor, Annie Brown expected that her living would be carved through selling items of that nature - but sluggish sales have instead crafted a different path.

Now, as she sits at her shop in the Falmouth Seaboard District Craft Market, much of her income comes from selling snacks and bag juice.

"The thing slow, slow; so mi just walk up and down and sell some cheese-trix and bag juice. Nothing nah gwaan right now," she said, explaining that her resources remain limited.