We are well into August, and before the summer gets away from you, go down to the Saturday morning market, sponsored by the Larimer County Master Gardeners. The vendors are early birds and most arrive at the Courthouse parking lot before 6:30am. The first volunteer shift starts even earlier--at 5:30am!
If you want to see efficiency in action, just watch the boxes and tubs being unloaded from cars and trucks and—magically—they turn into artful displays of produce, food, and other goodies. Most of the vendors are small business owners and there are only one or two people who unload and set up the booths. After the early morning set up, they are ready to meet the crowds who arrive from 8am until noon, and then in the words of Jackson Browne
and Bryan Garofalo, they, “Pack it up and tear it down...They're the first to come and last to leave…You know you guys are the champs.”
They don’t lift the amps like the music show roadies, but they do lift and move hundreds of pounds of produce and flowers and coffee and mustard and BBQ sauce and oil and wine and cheese and jewelry and bread and….
Come on down to the market and, say “hello and thanks” to the vendors for making the Larimer County Saturday farmer’s market a 36 year tradition.
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