{"id":66697,"date":"2019-08-21T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-kennebec-brings-a-farmers-market-to-hesperus\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T01:02:44","slug":"the-kennebec-brings-a-farmers-market-to-hesperus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-kennebec-brings-a-farmers-market-to-hesperus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kennebec brings a farmers market to Hesperus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=34635404-d433-41a5-8d4d-d521f10f17ad&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1712\" alt=\"The Kennebec sells bread at the farmers market that it hosts in the parking lot behind its restaurant. The market occurs from 2 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays through Oct. 16.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Kennebec sells bread at the farmers market that it hosts in the parking lot behind its restaurant. The market occurs from 2 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays through Oct. 16.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the Kennebec<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Prior to this summer, residents of Hesperus and Durango West looking for a market for fresh produce and other items had to make the trip all the way into Durango or Mancos. Now, they have an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The Kennebec Market, located behind <a href=\"http:\/\/kennebeccafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kennebec<\/a> restaurant in Hesperus, is held from 2 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday. The market is scheduled to occur on a weekly basis through Oct. 16, said Adrienne Gomez, manager of the market and the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>When the Hesperus One Stop closed, it left a hole for the people in Durango West and Hesperus who want simple grocery items, she said. The market was created out of a desire to service those people and to provide people with a mid-week option in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to offer something different,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the market typically has an average of six or seven vendors but has room for more. Interested potential vendors can try out the market one time without paying a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Among the food vendors, the Kennebec sells bread, and Orchard Street Gardens of Farmington brings produce. Other vendors sell jewelry, yarn, salsa and spices.<\/p>\n<p>Becky Woodbridge, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchincookies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitchin Cookies<\/a>, which has appeared at the market five times and plans to continue, said the market serves a completely different crowd than the county\u2019s other farmers markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lovely value to (the farmers market) is it\u2019s covering people who don\u2019t come into the city to the Saturday market,\u201d she said. \u201cEveryone I have sold cookies to out there have never heard of me. And I\u2019ve been doing the Durango Farmers Market part of last year and all this year and it\u2019s definitely, without a doubt, a 100% completely different crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ngonzales@durangoherald.com\">ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vendors sell baked goods, produce and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1934,28,866],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmers-market","tag-headlines","tag-hesperus"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66697"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}