Regina Farmers Market returns for summer season – Regina | 24CA News
It is a certain signal of spring when the Regina Farmers Market has Pat Fiacco Plaza buzzing with pleasure.
Saturday marked the primary day of the outside season for the market. The market will run each Saturday and Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. till Oct. 7, 2023.
“We are ecstatic to be out here, and we are grateful to the city for their support and for helping us be out here again this year,” Holly Laird, the manager director of Regina Farmers Market mentioned. “The plaza does feel like our home and we’re just really excited to be back at least for one more year.”
This will, nonetheless, be the ultimate 12 months the market will probably be within the plaza for the foreseeable future. The building of downtown roads will power the market to discover a new residence from 2024 to 2026.
The market has been held there for practically 50 years.
The building will happen on 11th avenue and can see the street utterly dug up from Broad Street to Albert Street, which means the one entry to Cornwall Street will probably be from the Pat Fiacco Plaza.
On Saturday, Laird mentioned 38 complete distributors had been in attendance, and it’ll proceed to develop as roughly 70 distributors take part by July.
One of these distributors is Kathleen Larkin, and her stand “Nana K’s British Pies”. In honour of King Charles III coronation, a particular deal was provided to have a good time.
“I made a coronation pie, which is a take on sandwich filling from the 1953 coronation,” Larkin defined. “It’s a creamy chicken, with a hint of curry…. And I also made a King Charles special which was a spinach quiche.”
2023 additionally marks the primary ever Thursday market, which will probably be held at a separate location from June to August.
A ‘Satellite’ market will probably be held on the Horizon Station Park from 4 p.m. to eight p.m., providing distributors and shoppers yet one more probability to come back collectively.
“The concept of these satellite markets is that they may have fewer vendors, but you still have all your farmers market staples there.”
The Thursday market opens on June 1.
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