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HYRUM — Outdoor markets continue to be popular in Utah and here in the Cache Valley with the Cache Valley Gardeners Market, also the mid-week Center Street Market and for the last couple of summers, the Hyrum Farm Kids Market.
President of the committee that oversees the market, Amanda Butler, highlighted the unique feature of this market.
“So, it’s a market, it’s like a farmer’s market, but all the vendors are kids and we run every Saturday at the Hyrum City baseball fields(approx 600 E. Main). It’s from 9 to noon, but every vendor is a kid,” she explained.
Butler talked about how the idea came about.
“It was started last year, this is our second year running, and last year a woman named Shelly Sadler, her kids came to her and said that they had seen kids markets in other towns, in other places, and they wanted to start one in Hyrum. So, they went to the city council, Shelly Sadler and her kids, and went and asked the Hyrum City Council if they could start a kid’s market. (To) which they said yes, so the idea actually came from some kids.”
She described what people will find at the Hyrum Farm Kids Market.
“Such a wide variety, anything you would see at a farmers market. We have kids who feed their own chickens and bring the eggs to sell, we have kids who make lollipops, we have kids who make jewelry. Our age range is from 5 to 17, and so we ended up getting a large variety of items. We have body scrubs, all sorts of different kinds of food, popcorn, some people make fresh popcorn.”
They have even had some kids who were breeding rabbits and brought little baby bunnies to the market.
Butler said in all, there are roughly 20 vendors each weekend, she said the market will continue on Saturdays to about August 13th which is about the time school starts up again.