Main Street Farmers Market uprooted by council

Many may have bought a peach in the shade of Placerville’s Bell Tower for the last time without even knowing it, as the Main Street Farmers Market will no longer set up next to the Placerville landmark.

Following years of discussion, Placerville’s City Council decided in a 4-1 vote Tuesday to change the contract between the city and the El Dorado County Farm Trails operated market, requiring them to relocate for the 2023 season onward. Councilmember David Yarbrough was the sole dissenting vote, voicing a preference to wait to move the market until 2024, in consideration of the longstanding contract between the city and EDC Farm Trails. The action item regarding the market as it appeared on the council agenda specified