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SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a positive signal of summer season.
The Salt Lake Metropolis Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park (350 W. 300 South) is again and opened Saturday for the 2024 season.
It means Jorge Fierro is again, too.
“I by no means thought that I might be promoting a lot rice and so many beans,” Fierro mentioned.
Of the 33 years the Downtown Farmers Market has been round, Fierro has been a vendor right here for 26 of them. He could not await at the present time to do it yet again.
“The rationale why I really like this market is as a result of it allowed me to create a enterprise,” Fierro mentioned.
His Rico Manufacturers meals have develop into an enormous deal in Utah due to the Downtown Farmers Market.
It’s precisely what Rob Gilmore is hoping for his small enterprise. Gilmore and his spouse, Emily, personal Twigs and Department Gardens and that is their first time promoting on the Downtown Farmers Market.
“We’re small. We develop our meals on borrowed land in Holladay. Two completely different owners who’ve massive plots of land. They allow us to develop meals on their land,” Rob Gilmore mentioned. “We develop natural, no pesticides or herbicides and it’s all human-powered. So, we don’t have any tractors. We’re doing all the things by hand.”
A dream come true
Beginning their very own farm and promoting their product can be a dream of theirs.
“I labored for Amazon till about a few weeks in the past and give up, and now we’re doing this full time, and we’re going to try to make it work this season,” Rob Gilmore mentioned, with the type of assured smile that permits you to know he loves what he’s doing.
Twigs and Department Gardens is strictly the type of native vendor the market itself loves.
Native merchandise imply so much to the Downtown Farmers Market, which is the biggest of its variety in Utah.
“Every little thing right here on the farmers market is made, raised, or grown inside 250 miles of the Downtown Farmers Market,” mentioned Carly Gillespie, deputy director of the Downtown Farmers Market.
Greater than 250 distributors promoting produce, baked items, meats, crafts, music, and loads of lunch choices introduced 1000’s of individuals to Pioneer Park.
“We’re thrilled to be right here,” Rob Gilmore mentioned.
“My spouse retains asking me, babe, when is it going to be your final 12 months and I don’t know,” mentioned Fierro. “I really like this. I really like this.”
The market will run each Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. till Oct. 19.
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