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. 'I think the market is helping give people in the community a chance to come together and be shown to people the things they might not necessarily see in other places,' said Jillian Cain from Wheeler Farm. Cain helps coordinate the markets and said they have some vendors who come each week, while also featuring new ones each time. 'If you come every week, you might see something new,' Cain said. Ivy Watrous is one of the vendors at the winter market, selling salts and sugars from her business: 'Salted Roots.''It’s infused salts and sugars for cooking, cocktails, baking, grilling — pretty much all of it. They’re all multi-use. They’re all double-infused, real ingredients, so people get really creative with them,' she explained. She said her business started in Millcreek, but they've recently moved to Rose Park and bigger offices, a growing business that started a year and a half ago. 'The whiskey sugar is the first one I started with'