At the Park Ridge Farmers Market on June 29, 2024, Marlena Bajno, from left, Maggie Tidey and Kathy Tidey chat with customers at the Tidey Farms vendor tent. Tidey Farms grows the produce in Michigan.Fresh pasta, hanging flower baskets and Transylvanian chimney cakes are just some of the offerings that have arrived at Park Ridge’s farmers market this year.
Besides produce, vendors offer frozen premium meat and fish, freshly-baked bread, cupcakes, croissants, popcorn, honey, ice cream and cherry specialties. The market also has a few guest vendors for the first five weeks, including one selling flowers in hanging baskets. This year, Grunschel said, vendors who wished to come part-time had to start in either the market’s first or second week and come every other week after that.
Dan and Renata Savin, shown with their daughter Catherine, sell Transylvanian Chimney Cakes in three flavors, as well as other baked goods, at their booth at the Park Ridge Farmers Market on June 29, 2024. Leleng “Eric” Kpandang offers a taste of vanilla roasted nuts to a potential customer at the Park Ridge Farmers Market on June 29, 2024.