The Durango Farmers Market encouraged vendors to decorate booths and hand out treats at its fourth annual trick-or-treat event Saturday, Oct. 31.
Organizers said the season was a success, though drought and flooding made it a hard year for farmers. The market held six Second Saturday events on Main Avenue, and early data shows vendors nearly doubled their sales there. A January meeting will decide whether the Second Saturday markets on Main Avenue continue in 2027.
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Today is our fourth annual trick-or-treat at the market where we encourage our vendors to bring tricks or treats and decorate your booth and have the community come out to start their Halloween weekend with us and trick-or-treat with their favorite vendors.
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We had a really successful year this year. We did complete six Second Saturday markets on Main, and so far the data is showing us that our vendors are nearly doubling their sales when we go on Main, which is wonderful. And currently the city is gathering more data from the community as well as from the Business Improvement District businesses that are on Main that could be affected by the market. And we are gathering data from our vendors. We will be meeting again in January to go over the data and determine what that looks like for us next year. We’re extremely hopeful that we’ll continue with the six Second Saturdays as we’ve done this past year. One thing that we have noticed this year in particular is a huge uptick for our farmers, possibly because of all the food recalls, possibly other things, but this has been a great year for our farmers.
And I do think that being on Main has shown that people are learning more about what our community has to offer, in particular in our food system. And when we go to Main, they do have the opportunity to be all together so you can see this entire row of agriculture that’s represented from our region. Ironically, we’ve been hoping for rain all year and now we’re getting flooded and that’s just as disastrous for the farmers. So it’s been a really challenging year. I will say it has been so amazing to see the community show up regardless. And I think that this has been a really good education for our community about what exactly it takes to grow in our region. It’s hard and it’s challenging and there are factors that do affect what we’re able to bring here. We have seen a few of our farmers that are regulars not be here this season due to the current climate.
And we’re hoping that the El Nino year is what everybody’s predicting and we’ll have this amazing snow pack and a wonderful year next year at the market. We are so grateful for the community that we have here and the support and that the Durango Farmers Market would not be able to function without our customers showing up every single Saturday. So thank you.For more information, go to durangofarmersmarket.com, and for more stories like this, visit LNN.news
