The Winter Market kicked off Sunday at the Wheeler Historic Farm in Murray.
FOX 13 News was there talking to a number of the vendors who attend each and every week, and some of them may surprise you.
“We’ve got the produce still — look at that, huh!” said Chad Midgley, a regular vendor at the market, showing off his apples, pears, lemons, spinach and even oranges all picked recently at his farm and greenhouse in the Ogden area.
“So we’re in Ogden, in Syracuse, and one of our farms is a pioneer farm,” Midgley explained. “It was grown in the 1800s by John Lionel Wilson. So, it’s got really good soil and we’ve experimented. We’ve got straw bales and compost and compost heaters that actually grow Utah citrus. We have citrus in the snow here in Utah.”
Midgley says the winter markets are crucial to helping them stay in business.
“Farmers markets are so important. More neighborhood farms — that’s what we need in Utah — and you can see the people are coming out and supporting it really well,” he said.