Kimberly also said they were always bringing in new vendors but the regular vendors include artists; a homemade sour dough bread vendor; a locally foraged, edible mushrooms vendor; a fresh lemonade vendor; a variety of craft vendors and homemade products like soap.
“ And we’ re working on getting some more produce, eggs, meat and dairy,” she added.
Bill also added that, in the winter months, the market had more of a craft focus because those products were available. He said they were looking toward having a larger selection of fruit and produce in the spring and summer.
“ And there are a lot of smaller farms but it’ s a lot of word-of-mouth trying to reach these smaller farmers,” Kimberly said.“ They’ re not always on Facebook or Instagram. I think, as more people learn about the market, we’ ll be able to reach those farmers and have them come out and provide more produce for the market,” she said.
Kimberly said, right now, it’ s first come, first serve for the vendors and she and Bill had to approve what they were selling at the market. She also said that the vendors need to bring their own display tables and booths.
“ The approval is more just to make sure that we don’ t have too much overlap. We don’ t want two egg vendors,” Bill added.
“ We can comfortably fit like 18 vendors. We can squeeze in a few more but …,” Kimberly said.“ I think it’ s gonna grow. I think that it’ s gonna end up becoming a place where community comes to and where vendors want to show what they have to offer.”
As far as vendors go, they said that they were also looking for vendors who sell honey, starter plants and fresh flowers.
One of the things Kimberly especially wanted people to know was that the brewery was a kid-friendly and pet-friendly environment.“ Everyone is welcome,” she said. I went to the brewery’ s farmers market on downtown Moultrie’ s“ Second Saturday” in March and there were a number of people shopping and browsing at the market. The vendors were selling everything from French macaroon pastries to dried, gourmet mushrooms. I also found fresh sourdough bread, jewelry, sweet baked goods, pickles, metal art, crocheted items and hot sauce. I even found a magician, Oliver Paul of Moultrie, performing magic for the kids that came.
While I was there, I spoke to a few of the folks that were shopping including Cheryl Croft of Moultrie, who said,“ It is pretty awesome. I wish they did it more often. … to showcase people’ s talent.”
She said that meeting people who’ ve lived here for a longtime but she’ s only now meeting them for the first time was also really neat.
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