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A year-round farmers market
Lower Valley Farmers
Market is open every
Saturday in Wallowa
By Katy Nesbitt
Go! Magazine
W
ALLOWA — If you’re
missing the local farmers
market, head to Wallowa and
check out the year-round Lower
Valley Farmers Market for locally
grown food as well as handmade
gifts and clothing.
It is held every Saturday in the
building at Highway 82 and Pine
Street in Wallowa.
In late November, the mar-
ket had a variety of greens and
roots, like kale, parsnips and
potatoes, as well as eggs and
frozen salmon, chicken, rabbit
and beef — some processed
just a mile or two out of town.
The market also sells house-
hold goods and apparel such
as throw rugs, blankets, hats
and scarves, along with wooden
carved items from Ralph Ander-
son, greeting cards featuring
photography by Debbie Lind and
Olaf pottery.
Deb Reth of Wallowa owns
the building that now houses
the Lower Valley Farmers
Market and the Wallowa Resale
Shop. She helped start both
enterprises. Having the market
and the resale shop in the same
building saves money, Reth said,
as they share maintenance and
utility costs.
Luckily moving the two busi-
nesses into their new home
didn’t leave empty storefronts —
the Telephone Building is now a
medical clinic and the food bank
is in the former Resale Shop.
The Lower Valley Farmers
Market started outdoors in
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The Lower Valley Farmers
Market is open 10 a.m.-
4 p.m. every Saturday
and the Resale Shop is
open Thursday, Friday and
Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
at the corner of Highway 82
and Pine Street in Wallowa.
Katy Nesbitt/Go! Magazine
The Lower Valley Farmers Market has a wide array of food items year-round,
including processed food like salad dressing and fruit leather.
2012, bringing a new shopping
and selling opportunity to the
western end of the county. After
two years it was moved to the
Telephone Building across from
Wallowa Food City.
“Having everything inside
made it easier instead of having
to set up and break down each
week,” Reth said.
It also allowed the market
to be open year-round, albeit
on a limited basis. Producers
and vendors were charged a
nominal consignment fee and
some helped run the store that
provided shelf, refrigerator and
freezer space.
During “the COVID year,” Reth
said she didn’t charge a con-
signment fee, but this coming
year it will be set at 5%.
Reth, who farms outside of
Wallowa, has provided produce
to area restaurants as well as
the market for many years. Her
greenhouse allows her to grow
greens most months of the year
and her roots are stored to be
available well into the spring.
She encourages other local
producers to sell their wares at
the market.
“We are always looking for
new vendors and for people
to help run the market and the
Resale Shop,” Reth said.
The pre-Christmas shop-
ping buzz was palatable on the
Saturday before Thanksgiving
as a steady stream of customers
fi led through both stores, some
from the upper Wallowa Valley
on a weekend drive, looking for
locally grown and produced food
and gift items.
The Lower Valley Farmers
Market is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
every Saturday, and the Resale
Shop is open Thursday, Friday
and Saturday from 10 a.m.-
4 p.m.
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