Shoppers on Wednesday look at produce available at the midweek Aurora Farmers Market on the city’s West Side. Maricela Fisher of Aurora was excited to be at the midweek Aurora Farmers Market on the city’s West Side on Wednesday.
While the larger Saturday farmers market offers somewhere around 40 vendors per week, Freitag said the midweek market “will be more in the range of 20 to 25 vendors.” “We have the same number of farmers even though we have less vendors in total,” she said of the midweek market. “We included Theis Farms from Maple Park as well as two other produce farmers, so even though the market is smaller in vendor size we still have the same amount of produce which is really nice.”
“Some people can’t get to the market at 8 or 9 a.m. on a Saturday as there might be family commitments, but this way people can shop during a lunch break or just pick up something if they are out running errands,” she said. “I like this one because it’s easy to park here and we usually have my mom with a wheelchair,” Quintanilla said. “To me, this seems a bit bigger this year. It’s larger and I like that they seem to have expanded it. I come for everything – baked goods, crafts. I’m going back and buying pasta. I like to try everything.”
Arthur Wright of Arlington Heights was busy selling Lincoln Land Kettle Corn at the midweek market on Wednesday and said last week “was our first time here.”