Locally grown tomatoes in winter? Fresh-picked lettuce, arugula, kale in February? Yes, you can find them at the Four Seasons Winter Farmers Market every Saturday.
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Locally grown, ripe tomatoes in Winter?
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Fresh lettuce, arugula,
and kale in February?
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You’ll find them at the Four
Seasons Winter Farmers Market
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every Saturday through mid-March.
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You’re watching the Local
News Network brought to you by
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CMIT Solutions and The
Overlook at Edgemont Highlands.
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I’m Wendy Graham Settle.
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Are you craving the ripe summer time taste
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of fresh tomatoes in your salads?
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Get to the Four Seasons
Greenhouse and Nursery
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right at 10:00 AM on Saturdays
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when the nursery’s Winter
Farmers Market opens.
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Early bird shoppers deplete
the weeks supply quickly.
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Gail and Vic Vanik have owned and operated
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the Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery
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for more than 22 years.
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Located of Colorado State
Highway 145, North of Cortez.
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The 40 acre complex of greenhouses,
nurseries, and tree farm
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attract local gardeners
from Southwest Colorado
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and gardeners from as far way as Phoenix,
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Salt Lake City, and Grand Junction.
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In the Spring and Summer,
the place is bursting
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with blooms, vegetable
starts, succulent plants,
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trees, and every
gardening tool imaginable.
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It wasn’t until 8 years ago when owner,
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Vic Vanik learned he had dangerously
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high cholesterol and
high blood pressure that
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the Winter Farmers Market was born.
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Yeah I had some high cholesterol issues,
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and I started, we started growing a lot
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of our own stuff in the greenhouse
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and people were coming in and saying,
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“we want to buy that,” and we were saying
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“you can’t have that, that’s our dinner.”
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You know? So, one thing led to another
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and I went “Ah maybe we
should start growing some
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extra stuff” and so we started growing it,
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and people were still coming in.
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And then just kind of
like “why don’t we do it,
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there’s nobody around here who had
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a winter farmers market.
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And so like we have
greenhouses and we don’t have
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anything to do with them
in December, January,
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February, and early March.
They’re pretty much empty.
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So, I know another, once again
another light bulb went off
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and thought maybe we should start one,
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and it did start of pretty slowly.
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We had some people that were
ya know we had some of them
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we have some, some charter members here
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like Mick and Joy and
just a couple other ones,
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but it started off fairly slow.
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But it’s been building
and getting traction
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more and more and more and
now the last couple of years
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it’s just been, ya know,
pretty busy as you can see.
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Like many of farmers markets in Summer,
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The Four Seasons Market features
artists, arts and crafts,
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and artisanal foods like
salsas, homemade cinnamon rolls
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and even freshly made, warm donuts.
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We grow all the produce that we have here.
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So we have a variety from
lettuce and peas and tomatoes.
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In the fall, we have broccoli
and cabbage and kohlrabi.
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That’s amazing
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And it’s amazing so that’s
what we like to have
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a place for the community
to come and get fresh food
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and that’s what, ya know, our goal is.
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But folks like to see arts and crafts too,
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so we have some vendors that have earrings
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and some blown glass and
we have cooking spices.
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A vendor that sells goat
cheese, jams, jellies,
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just pretty much a variety of everything
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you could think of, but
it’s all locally made
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or locally grown.
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The Winter Farmers Market
starts the Saturday
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after the Summer Farmers
Market in Cortez ends
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its season in early November.
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It will run through
mid-March when the Vanik’s
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need the market space to get ready
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for the spring planting season.
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Hours are 10:00 AM to
1:00 PM on Saturdays.
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Masks are required and social
distancing is encouraged.
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For more information and for directions,
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visit fourseasonsgreenhouse.com
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Thanks for watching this edition of
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the Local News Network,
I’m Wendy Graham Settle.
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