Half a century of bringing food to the table, along with other artisan products is what the Border City Farmers Market is celebrating this year.
The group which uses the indoor space at the Servus Sports Centre hosted a day of entertainment with the Prairie Dogs and Just Kruzin’ was out with a specialty grill to serve a tasty barbecue.
Organizer, Alice Pattison reflects that “It’s a long time.”
“It started out as tents at the mall. Then it moved to the Wildrose Pavilion. And then in about 2007 or 2008, we came over to the Servus Sports Centre.”
The group is always indoors, whereas as the Lloydminster Outdoor Farmers Market is outside.
“October to April we do Saturdays and Thursdays and we do Thursdays all year round,” says Pattison.
The group can bring in about 100 vendors on special events with a regular field of some 25 artisans.
Pattison cites the pandemic is the biggest challenge over the 50 years.
“It was something we had to work around. We couldn’t be indoors for a bit, so we were outside. Then, when we did come indoors, there were lost of restrictions that we had to follow.”
Looking ahead the future looks very bright.
“We got lots of vendors. Shop local is a big thing and we are all local. So, it looks really great.”
Pattison invites the community to celebrate and support the achievements of the local vendors.
