Juicy red tomatoes, crisp green lettuce and bright orange carrots were ripe for the picking during Jasper’s first farmers market of the season, June 24.
Located on the McCready Centre parking lot, at 701 Turret Street, more than a dozen vendors were on hand from 12-3 p.m. to sell everything from fresh veggies to grain-fed meat.
“Vendor turn out has been great,” said Janeen Keelan, organizer of the market. “It’s been a little slow, but it will pick up.”
This is the fifth year the market has been running and the second year that it has been held at the McCready Centre parking lot.
“Prior to this we were at the Legion parking lot, but we out grew that space and have a lot of vendors now,” said Keelan.
This is the second year the municipality has approved a one-year pilot project allowing the Jasper Local Food Society to hold its weekly market in the McCready Centre parking lot.
The market takes place every Wednesday and runs until Aug. 26.
“It’s actually been a pretty good turn out, nice people sailing through and a beautiful day. We’re not complaining at all,” said
Other vendors agreed.
“Things are going very well,” said Jackie Edwards, owner of Le Grand Farm, located near McBride, B.C.
“I’m just about out of my vegetables and the jams and jellies are going very well.”
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