First Nyssa Farmers Market a success
By LARRY MEYER
ARGUS OBSERVER
Monday, August 24, 2009 10:37 AM PDT
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| The Nyssa Community Food Pantry was just one vendor at the first Nyssa Farmers Market Friday in downtown Nyssa. |
NYSSA — Despite the hot weather, the first Nyssa Farmers Market, Friday, was deemed a success with 15 vendors set up for the event in the downtown area and a small but steady stream of people going through for much of the time.
The next farmers market will be the third Friday of September and another set for the third Friday of October.
“We’re almost sold out,” said Trish and Corrie Mitchell, who were selling garden produce Friday evening at the event sponsored by the Nyssa Farmer’s Market Association, in partnership with the Nyssa Community Food Pantry.
“We did really good,” Anne Pitcher, who was there with her husband, Dick, selling her goat milk soap she makes at home.
They came away with several new customers, she said.
“I’m quite pleased,” she added.
Cynthia Garrand, representing Garrand Farms, said she was looking forward to the next market, when there would be more produce. With the cooler weather, a lot of the crops were not ready yet. They should do better next time, she said.
“We sold a lot of stuff off our table,” Susan Barton, Chamber of Commerce executive secretary, said. She was helping staff a community table, raising funds for the food pantry.
“Next month it will be a little cooler,” Barton said. “I think it’s nice.”
Providing music for the event were the “The Irish Goat Boys,” who entertained vendors and customers with Irish folk tunes, plus other styles of music. The group include Jim and Iran Trenkle, Ontario, and Dorothy Van Egmond, Middleton.
“We do a lot of other styles of music,” Van Egmond said. “We still do the Irish tunes.”
A history teacher in Meridian, Van Egmond takes her flute into the classroom and plays it on occasion, often at students’ birthdays. Van Egmond is often asked by students to help them with playing their instruments.
“It’s not a vocation. It’s an avocation,” she said.
