talking to local farmers markets
right here in the Treasure Vall.
Joining us today Breca Hipwell and Nicole
Parine from the Nampa Farmers Market.
Really an honor to have you guys here
because the Nampa Farmers marke,
if you didn't know one of the bt
in the country like top three ad
like the best in the Northwest.
Thanks for joining us and
you were all here early.
To be able to set up all this sf
and this really just a taste oft
you can find out there at the market,
right? Yes
it is with over 100 vendors
weekly and we have over 200 on our roster.
We have so much to offer at the
so we wanted to make sure and
give a a good display what's
a great location too at Union
Square. I'd love that location
there by the depot and.
Plenty of room for everybody.
Lloyd Square is fabulous.
We just love it there.
It's got a great history
for the market as well for
sure. So talk to me about some of the
things that that you brought to.
Again, a little bit of everythi,
certainly the fruits and vegeta,
but you got knitting or crochet.
I'm not sure about the difference made
of books that you also wrote as well.
Talk to me about some of this s.
Oh, you know, this is only about
40 worth of our vendors and we
have over 200 on our roster.
But you, as you can see,
we have the fresh fruit coming .
One of the great things about or
market is everything is made or
grown within 100 miles of Nampa.
Really. Yeah. So we're not shipg
things in from Outofstate.
This is all local. Everyone ask,
well, where are the pineapples?
Well, guess what,
Nobody grows pineapples in Idah.
You can grow it.
That's right. That's right.
So this is all local stuff.
We had a cold year,
so we're just getting our cherries in.
You can see we've got some zucchini out here,
we've got some live plants.
It's still tomato planting a se.
Make sure to trench those.
We've got great carrots here and
we've got meat, so we got severl
different meat vendors availabl.
We've got pastries and baked goods and eggs,
all kinds of eggs.
We've got microgreens, We've got
homemade wines and fresh cut flowers.
Our sunflowers are just coming in now,
all kinds of sauces and spices.
50% of our vendors are actually
agricultural and food based.
Vendors.
That's a requirement.
So we try really hard to encoure
all of our vendors to have
something tasty for our customes
and patrons who come through.
We also have,
oh gosh,
what else?
And salsa only
salsa in here, so you can
even start in the door. Yeah,
handmade soaps, all sorts of
things. Jams, Jelly beans,
wax and cookies, of course.
That looks good. And honey, lovd
artwork, of course, from
a little about this farmer's market and
the others around the area is there's.
Not only so much produce,
but you get all these cottage industries,
these handcrafts, the soaps and the and
I love Bob Wagner's homemade mustard.
Different flavors of all kinds.
And Jim, you were talking
about this zucchini over here.
I don't know if we can get a shot of this.
This thing is huge. That's incredible.
Just really indicative of how gt
growing and agriculture is right there
in Canyon County and within jus.
Look at the size of that.
That's crazy.
That's my hand there.
That is a huge you get to take
samples when you go.
Oh absolutely.
We encourage our vendors to have
samples and to interact with the
customers as much as possible.
You know we're a family.
We see our our customers as fam.
We see each other as family.
It's really just unique in that.
We we are there for each other.
Actually most of these goods we
already had on hand this week,
it took very little asking
for the vendors to say yes,
send our stuff, but because
we shop there, we shop there.
Ask you to we do. We feed our families.
Any restrictions on taking
your furry family members? We
invite pets. Please bring your
pets on a leash is great though,
because then everybody's pets ce
friendly. In fact,
we have a pet food available,
snacks and treats for the anima,
so that's also something we encourage.
And dog bones from Hipwell Ranch, yes.
So if people want to get involv,
maybe be a vendor. How can they do that?
They just go to
nampanampafarmersmarket.com
and there's a place where they
can look to become a vendor.
Fantastic. And we talked about u
being one of the best in the coy
and you said there's a way that
you can continue that designati,
right? Maybe that's right.
Yeah. Just go to
markets.farmland.org and it's
on your screen right now.
Yeah. And then half
slash market and then you can
vote for the Nampa Farmers markt
and keep us in the running.
We'd love to defend our title as number
one of the Pacific Northwest nu.
One in Idaho and #3 in the nati.
Maybe #1 in the nation.
Maybe Let on your phone.
Use that QR code.
Just bring your camera up to it and vote.
Thank you so much for coming ou.
Really appreciate it.
Appreciate the donation to the
KTV kitchen. No, I'm just kiddi.
I'm sure. I'm sure there's
lots to share. Lots to share.
Thank you so much.
That's Nampa's farmers market.
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