Saturday marks the end of the Bloomington Farmer's Market season, celebrated with a special holiday event with crafts, food vendors, train rides, and live music.
Farmer's Market Coordinator Marcia Veldman says this growing season was challenging for most farmers due to heavy flooding, followed by droughts, in the summer.
"We have 130 farmers who sell at the market, and they're from a pretty wide area in southern and central Indiana, and pretty ingenious and determined. And so at market we still had a pretty full stand from the vendors," Veldman says.
Veldman, who has managed the market for 18 years, says she has seen continuous growth in the market since she started. She attributes that to a healthy public interest among Bloomington residents to buy and eat local foods.
And as one season ends a new one begins – the indoor Winter Market at Harmony School kicks off next Saturday.