Farmer’s Market News
Author: Don and Chris Hettinger, Farmers Market
Farmer’s Market News
Don and Chris Hettinger
Farmers Market
The Farmers Market is over half way through the season now. How appropriate that we set a new customer record of 284 at the time of the summer Olympics competition where new world records are being set.
Please Note! Handicap Parking is available next to the orange safety cones in front of the vendor tables. Thank you to everyone for your care moving through the market.
The Townsend Farmers Market is established to serve vendors from Broadwater County with the intention of encouraging growth in local endeavors that may be otherwise hindered with outside competition. The result is a benefit of buying local and building local. According to the 2021 study by the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research, for every $17 of direct income at a farmers market there is an additional $10 of indirect income to the community. (Montana Business Quarterly 2022)
The market continues to be successful and is growing.
New vendors have filled the gaps of those who no longer are able to participate.
What is at the Market this year? Again there are crafts, skincare, soaps, lotions, vegetables, meats, baked goods and food to be enjoyed while you browse over the displays of each vendor. It’s a time to visit with one another and enjoy a glass of lemonade, a cookie, or a smoked beef brisket sandwich.
The market runs every Thursday from 3 PM – 6 PM until the end of September and, weather permitting, into October.
Those of you who get the “Rural Montana” magazine, Montana’s electric cooperative magazine will find Townsend Farmers Market dates listed under the ‘Events Calendar’ for Southwest Montana.
If you want to be a vendor at the Market, contact Sheree Beauchamp (pronounced Beech-um) at 406-465-4977. It is a great place to make new friends. We all work together setting up and taking down signs, safety cones, canopies, and tables. Come join us and be a part of the market family and enjoy the fellowship shared by the Market community.
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