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group of 30 vendors who drop in during the summer with more seasonal produce for sale like local blueberries. “It’s nice to be able to buy at home,” said
Debra Wyatt, another farmers market man- ager. “And we want our vendors to be suc- cessful.” Success, in this case, means seeing the market’s base of customer support expand far beyond the village bounds. The last time market organizers did a statistical survey of how many people made their way to the site on a Saturday and where they drove in from, the final figure worked out to 500 visi- tors on that particular market day. “It can be anywhere now from 500 to 1000 a week,” Blanchard said. “Far and wide,” Wyatt added. “It’s not just Cumberland people who gather here.” The vendors themselves are also not lim- ited to the Cumberland area. Some market
members hail from The Nation municipality or the City of Clarence-Rockland and even as far west as Ottawa’s Kanata suburb. There are even one or two from the Québec side of the Ottawa River who make the trip by ferry over to Cumberland to sell seasonal produce or goods. Wyatt noted that a few of the vendors have set up greenhouse operations so they offer some kinds of seasonal produce ear- lier in the year and even provide a second crop for the benefit of customers later in the year. The market has also become a popular staging site for buskers and others offering live music, street juggling, and other forms of live entertainment.
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CUMBERLAND | Seven years long and still going strong. The Cumberland Farm- ers’ Market is a community project that has been a bountiful success story for the neighbourhood. “In 2006 it started as a community discus- sion,” said Mathieu Blanchard, one of the farmers market managers. The focus of talks back then was to try and set up something to provide Cumberland village residents with a community source of healthy and organic produce. The project had the support of Rob Jellett, who was the ward councillor at the time. That first summer the market had be- tween 20 to 30 vendors signed up willing to spend their Saturdays for that season outside of the community arena on Dun- ning Road. Seven years later, there is a core group of 30 regular vendors plus another Claude’s MOTORCYCLE SERVICE
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