TMJH Park City Post: Park City Adding a Second Farmer’s Market?

Park City Adding a Second Farmer’s Market?

Volker Ritzinger, owner of Volker’s Bakery and organizer of the Park City Farmer’s Market, thinks Park City is big enough to add another Farmer’s Market.

Ritzinger has been planning and facilitating the Park City Farmer’s Market for over 12 years. Even now, he goes to all of the farms to check out the food and products that they will be selling at the market.

"I look to see how things are grown and how the food is made," he said. "We try to stay away as much as we can from the genetically modified products, because we don't want that anymore.”

He announced this weekend that he is making arrangements with Vail to open another Farmer’s Market at PCMR. The market at Canyons is every Wednesday, so they are thinking about choosing a different day for the market at PCMR.

“The organizer will probably need to get some permits from the city. The city's major concerns are for health and safety. The city staff would probably review the lay out and the transportation plan for the market to make sure it is safe,” said Cindy Matsumoto, City Council Member, of the city’s involvement in Park City’s possible Farmer’s Market.

”We want to do Wednesday here at Canyons, and another market down there, but I don't know what day, yet," Ritzinger said. "We're still working out the details. But that's kind of the game plan. It will be lot of work, totally, but we need this to happen.” He said he thinks it will benefit the producers and Park City itself.

Meanwhile, you can look forward to at least another 3 years of Canyons Farmer’s Markets, as Ritzinger has signed another contract.