WOODBURY, MN (WNN) – The Woodbury Farmers Market opens for the season Sunday at Red Rock Elementary School. The market will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 1 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 26.
Organizers say the market will boast vegetables, fresh cut flowers, meat, mushrooms, honey, bread, pet treats, a coffee truck and a breakfast food truck, maple syrup, kettle corn, microgreens, baked goods, salsa, and jam.
“The first couple of weeks will be lighter on vegetables and flowers since they are still growing in the field this time of year,” Lindsay Stauner, assistant director of the St. Paul Farmers’ Market, which organizes Woodbury’s market, told WNN in an email.
A community table will feature a rotating roster of area organizations that will spread word of their work. This season the market also includes a kid’s activity – find Maggie the Market Goat. “We have a stuffed toy hidden in the market each week for kiddos to find and receive a prize,” Stauner said.
It’s the second year the market will be held at the school due to construction at Central Park.
Stauner told the city planning commission in March that the move to the school site appears to have caused a dip in attendance. This year all customers will need to park at the school as the city has restricted on-street parking in the neighborhood.
Transactions at the market’s information tent – which includes Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients receiving currency to use at the market as well as people who need cash to spend – fell 20 percent last year, the only metric available to judge performance. But Stauner said the Woodbury market remains popular with a waiting list of vendors who want to join in.
SNAP/EBT customers can bring their EBT card to the yellow information booth and receive up to $20 extra in money to spend on SNAP-eligible food items (almost everything) at the farmers’ market.
“It’s a really good farmers market, and the community has shown us a lot of support even with the move last year,” Lindsay Stauner told the planning commissioners.
