How the extreme heat is hurting farmer's market vendors: 'It's their livelihoods'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The utmost vigor presently sitting implicit the Central Valley has forced respective seasonal farmer's markets to crook vendors distant - for the information of organizers, market-goers, and vendors.

"It's thing that we privation to do, but astatine the extremity of the day, their information is our main concern," Events Coordinator with the Downtown Fresno Partnership Marissa Arreguin said.

Arreguin is liable for helping the Downtown Fresno Partnership signifier the Market connected Kern, a play Farmer's Market successful Downtown Fresno.

"It brings a antithetic energy," Arreguin said. "The relationships with the vendors and being capable to link with the assemblage connected a much intimate ground each week, it's beauteous cool."

The Market connected Kern is 1 of respective farmer's markets that person been enactment connected intermission owed to the aggravated heat. Arreguin the determination has been a stroke to the vendors.

"All of them beryllium connected being astatine these markets," Arreguin said. "So erstwhile we cancel it does travel with a dense heart."

Arreguin says that it's important to her and the Downtown Fresno Partnership that they enactment the vendors erstwhile the marketplace is closed by promoting them connected societal media and connection of mouth.

"They truly trust connected those in-person interactions, truthful erstwhile we're gone we'll effort to station them," Arreguin said. "I privation everyone to cognize [about them] adjacent if I'm retired and astir I'll transportation their cards with me."

"We're vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free, we conscionable pridefulness ourselves connected truly cleanable prime food."

Tallez says she started her nutrient concern astir a twelvemonth agone and has relied heavy connected farmer's markets to physique her marque and business.

"I person astir six venues a week, and that doesn't see thing I get pulled to oregon catering."

Tallez says that she, similar galore different vendors, struggles financially erstwhile the markets close, particularly arsenic the outgo of surviving has risen too.

"Shopping for mundane items, packaging, constituent contents, each those things are precise costly - state commuting from venue to venue has been crazy."

Much similar Arreguin, Tallez has developed intimate friendships with her chap vendors, and with the markets closing, she says she has besides felt the interaction connected a societal level.

"We each benignant of respect each different and person the unspoken camaraderie," Tallez said. "It's decidedly a household situation."

Tallez says she besides encourages everyone she knows to sojourn the assorted farmer's markets successful the Central Valley to enactment section and traveling vendors.

Marissa Arreguin and Stephanie Tallez some hold that portion the upwind whitethorn beryllium a detriment to each hoping to sojourn the farmer's markets, the vendors, market-goers, and organizers volition prime up close wherever they near disconnected erstwhile the vigor dies down again.