Regina Farmers’ Market vendors left wondering about the future – Regina | 24CA News
There are few locations busier on a Wednesday or Saturday morning in the summertime than the Regina Farmers’ Market.
The Pat Fiacco Plaza has been the market’s house for almost 50 years, however highway building in downtown Regina will push the market to a brand new location in 2024.
The building will happen on eleventh avenue and can see the highway fully dug up from Broad Street to Albert Street, that means the one entry to Cornwall Street can be from the Pat Fiacco Plaza.
The Regina Farmers’ Market has been seeking a brand new house, and distributors have been left questioning the place that new house may very well be.
“I’m not sure where they are going to move us or what’s going to happen. But wherever we go, the farmers market is going to do great because we have a lot of support from the community,” mentioned Dawson Cameron, who sells natural wild rice on the market, and has been there since 2012.
Kassidy Vuckovic, Baba’s Dough Box vendor, mentioned she feels the transfer from the plaza can be an enormous hit for distributors.
“I think it will slow it down quite a bit,” she mentioned. “When we do winter markets or indoor markets … it gets very slow.”
On Saturday, June 3, the City of Regina will arrange store out there to listen to individuals’s suggestions on the Scarth Street revitalization mission — the mission affecting the farmer’s market.
Holly Laird, the chief director of Regina Farmers Market, mentioned the staff is presently working with the town to discover a appropriate location for the market.
She mentioned staying downtown isn’t out of the playing cards simply but.
“We would love to stay downtown if we can make it work,” Laird mentioned. “But we’re not totally sure about next year and what the options are going to be.”
This yr additionally marks the first-ever Thursday market, which can be held at a separate location from June to August.
A “Satellite” market can be held at Horizon Station Park from 4 p.m. to eight p.m., providing distributors and customers yet one more likelihood to come back collectively.
Many distributors, nevertheless, no matter the place the market is held, share one view on the long run.
“We plan to be here as long as the farmers market is around,” Cameron mentioned.
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