After twenty-plus summers, the City Park Farmers Market is launching its 2021 season this weekend with new owners running the show. We are super-pumped, we are super-nervous and super-excited, says Peter Wanberg, who now owns the City Park Farmers Market with his wife, Margo. We hope it gets to be a super-solid event and becomes a staple in the community.
If the Wanbergs hadn t stepped in, the market might not have come back this year. It was set to close down, but the couple, who own Jubilee Roasting Co and had a coffee stand at the City Park Farmers Market for years, wanted to see the event continue and had ideas on how to make it thrive.
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When the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market went dormant last year, Peter Wanberg and his wife Margo realized how much they missed the relationships they’d built up over the previous four years of being vendors there. So the duo organized their own food bazaar in the same location City Park Farmers Market to reconnect with other local producers and with the community.
“Our mission, and our passion, is to champion local food producers,” says Peter, who also owns Jubilee Roasting Co. (Margo is a co-founder of 3 Sisters Honey). “The biggest differentiator between our market and others is our focus on food and food-related vendors. Only a handful of the market’s more than 60 vendors are offering non-consumable products, but they’re still very closely tied to local agriculture.”
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Ela Family Farms will be one of the vendors at the City Park Farmers Market, which is set to launch Saturday in Denver. (City Farmers Market/Persist Publicity)
Five Freedoms Dairy will be one of the vendors at the City Park Farmers Market, which is set to launch May 15 in Denver. (Credit: Margo Wanberg)
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DENVER, CO A new farmers market in Denver will include more than 65 vendors, most of which will sell produce and food, organizers said.
The City Park Farmers Market will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the former City Park Esplanade Fresh Market space, at 2551 E. Colfax Ave.