Canceled due to lack of participation, the Wildomar Farmer's Market will reopen next spring in a more prominent location. (Yazmin Alvarez/SWRNN)
Starting today, shoppers looking to swing by and pick out some fresh produce at Wildomar Farmer’s Market will have to go back to the grocery store –the Monday night event has been canceled until further notice due to lack of support.
Wildomar’s market debuted April 12 and continued weekly at Marna O’Brien Park on Palomar Street between Mission Trail and Corydon Street. A long-awaited event for city officials, the market was an aim to bring families and the Wildomar community together.
Not enough people were coming to the event because the location was hard to find, said Paula Willette, the city’s community services director.
“Our park is in a small, out-of-the-way area,” she said.
The market was also incorporated into Wildomar’s summer Concerts in the Park series in hopes of drawing in larger crowds to both events, Willette said earlier.
“Unfortunately we did not have enough participation,” she said.
The market will reopen this spring after Willette finds a better location.
The market costs the city nothing. Willette donated her time planning the weekly event and volunteers ran it. The fees the venders paid to be in the market paid for the cost of lighting the area, Willette said.
On average, there were about 20 vendors that set up shop in the market each week, she said.
Yazmin Alvarez can be reached at yazmin.alvarez@swrnn.com.
City News Service contributed to this report
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Grocery story?
I have visited many of the local farmers markets but was never able to attend Wildomar because they were on Mondays from 5 to 9 pm. For the long commuters and dinner time this is an odd day and time. Then they have too much weekly competition from the surrounding cities.
Murrieta just opened their new Farmers Market & Craft fair on Sundays which is almost next door and it is evolving into one of the best. Besides great produce a lot of home crafts are on display here.
Click on my name above and it will guide you to the many online photos I have taken at many of our Temecula Valley swap meets, farmers markets and craft events.