The financially struggling Cape Breton Farmers' Market Co-operative has filed for bankruptcy a year after getting into a dispute with its former landlord in downtown Sydney, N.S.

Last May, the co-operative's vendors were locked out of their space in the Old Triangle building after D. MacPhee Realty said it was owed $76,000 in back rent and property taxes.

The market's manager at the time, Pauline Singer, told reporters it owed about $25,000 in property taxes it was supposed to pay to the landlord…