I would like to start out with a sigh of relief… ah. What an amazing day we had yesterday!
First, thank you to all who supported us. Thank you committee members for continuing to volunteer your time and passion every year! Thank you to all the positive volunteers who showed up bright and early ready to help! Thank you to all of our special vendors for arriving and forming an irresistible venue. Thank you Town and Country Liquors for being our sponsor! Thank you Willy Neumann for creating funky eye candy for the market customers. Thank you local luminaries and political members for helping us open the season with our annual ribbon cutting. Thank you patrons and customers of the Saugerties Farmers Market for constantly supporting us, sharing your excitement about what we’re doing, and supporting this amazing local community we have at our finger tips. We couldn’t have succeeded without all of you!
Now, without further ado, our sweet success! Saturday May 24th 2014, the Saugerties Farmers Market’s first day open. Market set up began at 7:30am sharp. By 9:00am vendors were arriving and setting up for the day. The weather had decided to bless us with fertilizing rain, a dose of a couple hours was all the clouds decided to subject us to. 10:00am customers started arriving! We saw more people than expected, everyone seemed to ignore the rain. By 11:00am we had cut the ribbon twice (once for real, the second time for the news reporter), and the rain had cleared to reveal a bright blue sky. Walking around was a delight to the senses. Everywhere we looked there were people laughing, shopping, eating, experiencing, learning, playing and creating. Our Chef demo by James Tamayo was soooo tasty! Around the corner from James’ food was a real live angora rabbit spinning demonstration. Although the weather had prevented the Paul Green Rock Academy from joining us, we had our back-up CD tunes happily drifting among customers from our music booth. We’ll have the Rock Academy come back some other time this year. Overall, I had a great time getting to know our new vendors, new customers and re-meeting old friends.
This season will just keep getting better. We have new vendors joining us and staples coming every week. The Market will always have something for everyone. If you missed our opening, no worries, come next week. We’ll be open every Saturday until October, and then indoors for the Holiday markets! Add a bit of community into your life, come be a regular at the Market.
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