What is normally a high-traffic spot will look quite different when the Kingston Farmers’ Market opens on Saturday.
About 35 vendors will take part and they will be appropriately separated from each other.
At its busiest period in the middle of summer, the market normally has about 100 vendors.
Manager Brian Boucher said anyone coming to the market will enter through one entrance where an information booth will be set up.
“There will be a path around the market and one exit point. We encourage the general public to definitely wear a mask, it’s not going to be enforced. All our vendors will be wearing masks,” Boucher said.
Boucher said the challenge is to make sure it’s profitable for the vendors and safe for the public.
“We [have to] make sure that we have a good flow of traffic going through the building and outside and also the social distancing,” Boucher said.
Work is underway to properly distance the vendors from each other and keep visitors safe. (Photo submitted by Brian Boucher)
Boucher says the board of directors met last week and everyone is up to the challenge to make this new form of the market work.
He expects some vendors may not be willing to come back which he understands.
