By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Springtime brings the farmer’s market to Maryville and Downtown Marville will kick it off by hosting a Spring into Fun event this weekend.
DeAnn Davison with Downtown Maryville says the second annual event is the kickoff to the farmers market season in downtown
“We focus on our local vendors, but then we also have kids’ games, we have some live music performances going on in our park downtown, so there’s just a lot of activities and things to try to bring vibrancy to our downtown,” Davison tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “And it is a free event, so we just welcome everybody to come downtown and hopefully enjoy a beautiful spring day.”
Last year the event saw 1,400 people visit downtown Maryville and several local vendors selling their goods filling the Nodaway County Courthouse Square during the inaguaral kickoff event.
Davison says over 70 vendors will participate in this year’s event with several types of goods for sale
“So definitely we have produce and as the growing season continues there gets to be more variety, so we definitely have produce that’s available this time of year,” Davison explains. “We have flower bouquets, a lot of baked goods, cookies, cakes, pies, cinnamon rolls, things like that but then we focus on anything that’s homemade as well.”
Davison says there are local artisans that may make jewelry, candles, leatherwork, or custom gifts and it’s really a hodgepodge of items for sale
The event will also feature live music, games for kids, food trucks, and new this to this year’s event will be a classic car show.
Davison says the idea for a car show came from volunteers who have done the work to put together the car show
“They reached out to some local car clubs and some different groups and so we’re hoping Saturday morning we’ll have a great variety of some classic cars,” Davison says.
The event runs from 12 to 6pm on Saturday May 10th on the Nodaway County Courthouse Square in downtown Maryville and is free to attend.
