The Riverside Farmers Market at Idlewild Park in Reno is popular for locals and families to visit their favorite vendors for fresh products every Sunday. People gravitate towards this market as it runs all year round, even during the colder fall and winter months.
Mushroom Co., Pink Elephant Kitchen, and Terroir Herbals are three of many booths that stay open at Idlewild throughout the changing seasons.
Mushroom Co. is a family run company that has been coming to this market for about five years, with Cheryl DeFlipp and her family running their booth.
“It does slow down especially when the weather is severe, but we do a lot of our sales online then so we mail all over the country… and we do this farmers market and many other events in this area,” DeFlipp explained.
Pink Elephant Kitchen succeeds during the fall and winter months due to the nature of their product, warm Thai curries. Birdie Harthono and her family run their booth setting up warming stoves.
“We have a very supportive community that comes out especially when we have rain or snow they come out just to support us. In winter we do hot foods, and we serve hot foods here, we do curry, hot foods during winter. I would love for people to come out here, this is a great, great market where you find lots of talented people,” Harthono said.
Terrier Herbals, run by Brooke Walshaw, is an apothecary farm to table booth that is also open all year long. Walshaw sees familiar faces at her booth every week, and has been at the market for about four years.
“One thing that I always remind myself is if I show up, the people show up, so a community built around vending and a lot of people rely on this as their livelihood,” Walshaw said, asking locals to keep coming to the Riverside Farmers Market even when the weather turns colder.
Reporting and photo by Samatha Wittke shared with Our Town Reno