The downtown farmer’s market is back for the 2024 season
SALT LAKE CITY — It is a sure sign of summer.
The Salt Lake City Downtown Farmers Market is back and opened Saturday for the 2024 season.
It means Jorge Fierro is back, too.
The Salt Lake City Downtown Farmers Market is back and opened Saturday for the 2024 season. It means Jorge Fierro is back, too. (Mark Less, KSL TV)
“I never thought that I would be selling so much rice and so many beans,” Fierro said.
Of the 33 years the Downtown Farmers Market has been around, Fierro has been a vendor here for 26 of them.
He couldn’t wait for this day to do it all over again.
“The reason why I love this market is because it allowed me to create a business,” Fierro said.
His Rico Brands food have become a big deal in Utah thanks to the Downtown Farmers Market.
It is exactly what Rob Gilmore is hoping for his small business.
Gilmore and his wife, Emily, own Twigs and Branch Gardens and this is their first time selling at the Downtown Farmers Market.
“We’re small. We grow our food on borrowed land in Holladay. Two different homeowners who have large plots of land. They let us grow food on their land,” Rob Gilmore said.
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