Mary Alice Reporting –
The Tuscarawas Valley Farmers Market opens on Wednesday, June 5th for their 16th season of providing local produce.
The event, held at the Tuscarawas County Fair Grounds in Dover, started as an idea at Leadership Tusc and later, the group, decided to bring it to fruition.
Chairperson Mark McKenzie says they built the market around two main vendors and it has grown by adding more food vendors, demonstrations, music, and food trucks.
“We want to be an incubator to mom and pop start-ups. We review those applications and see where they might fit within the context of the market. Most of the vendors that are at our market today have been with us a long time which is valuable to the consistence and the reliability of the market.”
McKenzie points out that familiar programs will return including carrot cash, SNAP or Ohio Direction Card, Produce Perks, P-EBT, and WIC Vouchers.
For the Senior Nutrition Program, the vouchers, given by the Tuscarawas County Senior Center, will be replaced with tokens, which can be redeemed at the Farmer’s Market Information Booth.
“Qualifying individuals get $50. There’s a QR code. You can ask for any amount up to that fifty and you can use them slowly through the season, and those will be $1 tokens and that’s new this year.”
For more details on the weekly Wednesday market, that runs June through mid-October, from 3 to 7pm, go online to www.tvffm.org or find them on Facebook.
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