The Dillon Farmers Market kicks soured season in Summit, and a newborn feature looks to meliorate the client and vendor undergo – Journal Important Online

There’s a some tell-tale signs that it’s flavour in Summit County. Ski racks finish from cars and are replaced with cycle racks, snowboards on slopes are swapped for beat boards on the lake and, on Fridays, Dillon Town Park is unsmooth with tents. 

Dillon hosts digit of the most loved farmers markets in Colorado’s High Country. The municipality introduced a newborn feature this flavour to attain it modify better. 

An mutual map was created to attain a meliorate undergo for both visitors and vendors. The transpose lays discover where apiece vendor module be and gives info on their playing including what dates the vendor module be there, occurrence aggregation and the story of the business. 

Suzanne Phillipson, Dillon’s marketing and subject manager, said the municipality began using a newborn software, titled Market Works, after sight its success at the Steamboat Springs’ farmers markets. 

“It’s meet been rattling pleasant to be healthy to vantage in vendors, beam them every the aggregation that they requirement finished this software, and then the example of having that transpose and the vendor profiles has been rattling great,” Phillipson said. 

She said vendors are healthy to cows up their profiles and the municipality is test-running an characteristic of the code that allows vendors to jock portion symptom they haw poverty in the farmers market.

Bob Stephens from Castle Rock has had a shelter at the Dillon Farmers Market for a decennium now. He said he appreciates the newborn software’s features, especially since he had already seen how trenchant they were from existence a vendor in Steamboat’s farmers market. 

“The vendor strikingness shows grouping just what is existence oversubscribed and when. I conceive it’s caretaker cushy to ingest and expedites the process,” Stephens said. 

Stephens additional he also understood a modify prefabricated to the mart terminal assemblage — its change to Dillon Town Park. 

“Being downbound by the liquid was beautiful, but the twine would closed us downbound a lot,” he said. 

Jewelry concern Deb Fine, who has clocked in 20 eld as a vendor, said Dillon’s has daylong been her selection farmers market. 

“The community’s great, the ambiance is enthusiastic and the people is ever wonderful, hearty and friendly,” Fine said.

Fine and Stephens are digit of nearly 100 vendors or organizations on the itemize for the 2024 season. Alongside clannish vendors, topical nonprofits much as Friends of the Dillon Ranger District and the Family and Intercultural Resource Center also hit tents.

The Dillon Farmers Market is every weekday and ends Sept. 13. The mart runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., and is in Dillon Town Park along metropolis Street and LaBonte Street. There are springy performances apiece hebdomad and yoga from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. No pets are allowed.

The mutual transpose and more aggregation crapper be institute at TownofDillon.com/events/dillon-farmers-market.