Cupid’s Market coming Feb. 8
JOEL MARTIN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 1 month AGO
Rosalinda Delgado, left, and her daughter Yvette Ramirez, 9, offer hand-crocheted plushies, scarves, and hats at last year’s Valentine’s Market. This year’s market, dubbed Cupid’s Market, is Feb. 8.
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Sheena Cameron, left, and James Allen check out a potential laptop bag at Roy’s Custom Leather Work & Repair’s booth at Moses Lake’s spring market last year.
Arturo Morando puts out handmade garden figurines while his wife Luz Morando looks on at last year’s spring market at the Grant County Fairgrounds. Morando has been creating the figures since he was 9 years old, he said.
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MOSES LAKE — Love, as well as a whole lot of crafts and food, will be in the air Feb. 8 at the Moses Lake Farmers Market’s Cupid’s Market.
“I have 68 stalls and they’re full, with two vendors outside,” said Market Manager Chris Haguewood.
Cupid’s Market, which debuted in 2017, is one of five off-season events the farmers market stages to fill the time between the regular market’s closing in October and its reopening in May. It will take place in the Commercial Building at the Grant County Fairgrounds, where it moved in 2021 because the previous venue, the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center, became unavailable.
The move seems to have been beneficial, as the Commercial Building offers a good open space. There was a possibility the market could outgrow that building and have to carry over into the 4-H Building next door, but Haguewood said there weren’t quite enough vendors to make that necessary.
“I’ve got 10 on the waitlist,” she said. “That’s not quite enough to sell another building.”
Of course, the fresh in-season produce found at the regular farmers market won’t be in quite such supply at Cupid’s Market, but there will be plenty of food and crafts. It’s an event for the whole family, Haguewood said.
“We have some face painters, some balloon-tying vendors and kids’ activities,” she said. “We have lots of bakeries, lots of Valentine's sweets.”
With gardening season rapidly approaching, the WSU Grant-Adams County Master Gardeners will have their plant clinic at the market as well, she said, dispensing advice and answering questions on all the intricacies of gardening.
“They’re very knowledgeable people,” she said. “It’s a great resource.”
Cupid’s Market
Feb. 8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Grant County Fairgrounds
3953 Airway Drive NE, Moses Lake
Sheena Cameron, left, and James Allen check out a potential laptop bag at Roy’s Custom Leather Work & Repair’s booth at Moses Lake’s spring market last year.
Arturo Morando puts out handmade garden figurines while his wife Luz Morando looks on at last year’s spring market at the Grant County Fairgrounds. Morando has been creating the figures since he was 9 years old, he said.ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
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