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Vol. 51, No. 11
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)$// )$50(56 0$5.(7 ³ /DVW ZHHNHQG·V IDUPHUV PDUNHW LQ GRZQWRZQ :DUVDZ 3KRWR WDNHQ E\ -DVPLQH 0RUHKHDG %\ -$60,1( 025(+($' 6WDII :ULWHU Farmers markets all around will be experiencing some seasonal changes as fall approaches. These changes include product of sellers and the number of buyers who make their way out to the markets. Syracuse Artisan and Farmers Market for instance, started May 8 and ends Sept. 11. The reason for their somewhat early end has to do with the fact less people tend to come out to the market after Labor Day. “After Labor Day we typically have a fall off
where it’s less people coming out,” programs director for the parks department in Syracuse, Darin Lursen said. Despite less individuals making their way out to the farmers markets on the weekend, he stated the last day of the season is one of the better ones. “It’s one of the better days for the market,” Lursen said. He believes the Market offers not only an opportunity for the community to get products, but also an opportunity for their vendors to be seen. “It brings some organic options for the people in the community,” Lursen said. “It supports small businesses here in the community.” Leeann Jaeger, who helps run the Wa r-
saw farmers market and is a vendor there, discussed unlike Syracuse’s market, theirs runs every weekend through late fall. “It starts the first Saturday in May and it ends the last Saturday in October, every Saturday from 9-1,” Jaeger said. Despite the farmers market running through late October, the number of individuals who come out on the weekends to get their products is also impacted as the season goes on. “The produce kind of dies off after Labor Day, so we don’t have as much. We do have growers that are really good at growing all four seasons. So even in the winter time they have hoop houses where they can grow stuff and bring it out,” Jaeger said. She also points out
this time in the season is when the individuals who sell crafts become the focus. “That’s when the people that do arts and crafts and stuff are more important then. At the beginning of the year and at the end of the year, because the produce isn’t either ready yet or it’s past and so we are still trying to get people in the habit of coming up here,” Jaeger said. Genny Carney of Warsaw and a vendor at the Warsaw Farmers Market, believes a theme starts to be apparent as the seasons change in the market. “You’ll see a theme going through the tents, that’s kind of nice. It gets peo-
ple excited for those holidays or seasons that are coming up,” Carney said. She shared one of her favorite aspects about the Warsaw Farmers Market is there is room for everyone and every is welcome. “There’s a spot for everything or every person. I think that’s important in a community. I think it gets people out of their homes and outside and in a pandemic that’s important,” Carney said.