Minneapolis, MN
First Minneapolis farmers market opening for the season
Spring is right here! The primary farmers market opens Saturday in downtown Minneapolis to kick off the 2022 season.
MINNEAPOLIS — Editor’s Be aware: The video above initially aired on KARE 11 on Feb. 17, 2022.
The primary Minneapolis farmers market opens on Sat. April 23 to kick off the 2022 season.
The Farmers Market Annex within the metropolis’s downtown is a part of the biggest open air farmers market in Minnesota.
Prospects should purchase regionally grown produce, freshly made meals and handmade crafts from a mess of specialty distributors.
Whereas the Annex, situated at 200 East Lyndale Ave North, would be the earliest to open, the opposite 18 Minneapolis farmers markets and mini-markets might be establishing store over the following a number of weeks.
Take a look at the complete schedule for 2022 to search out out when markets open, browse places and see in case your native farmers market participates in a well being program corresponding to Supplemental Vitamin Help Program, or SNAP.
The Farmers Market Annex opens Saturday and runs by Oct. 30, 2022.
Workers need to remind clients:
- Frequently wash and sanitize your fingers
- No canines allowed on the market
- No smoking on the market
- Many distributors take each money and credit score
Final summer season, farmers markets began seeing extra clients because the pandemic waned, however harvests had been impacted by excessive warmth and a drought. Farmers noticed loads of produce not less than two to 4 weeks delayed.
However different farmers discovered that whereas herbs and greens acquired pounded by the warmth and drought, others did higher than ever.
“Tomatoes are doing good,” Assistant Market Supervisor Sina Pleggenkuhle mentioned final summer season. “Peppers additionally like the warmth.”
Pleggenkuhle mentioned most vine-ripening greens thrive within the warmth. So long as farmers give them sufficient water, these kind of greens do effectively.
Almost 200 farmers promote their produce on the Minneapolis Farmers Market each week in the course of the summer season.
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