30 years ago, Downtown Alliance started our first Farmers Market in Salt Lake City to support our farmers, ranchers, artist and food vendors growing to 190 food vendors and 190 artists. The Winter market kicked off 8 years ago and is now in the Gateway which Director, Allison Einerson, loves. Even though they have had some contraction with the market due to Covid restrictions on spacing, Allison is seeing new ideas and vendors taking advantage of the low barrier to entry. Allison can rightfully boast about businesses that launched and took off because of the Downtown Farmers market like Rico Foods, Beltex Meats and the Soap Lady to name a few. Don’t forget to find out about the canning classes and especially Allison’s bread and butter pickling class. The Downtown Farmers Market supports locals first and their mission is shopping to show our farmers and ranchers the love. June 5th is the open date.

Go to downtownslc.org for more.

Utah’s main streets define the character of our communities, as much as our cities and national parks.

Through innovation, resilience and hope, small business owners in Salt Lake County and throughout the state are rising to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Visit Salt Lake and the Utah Office of Tourism invite you to join us as we hear the inspiring stories of these small business owners in a series we call Mighty Main Street.