SOUTH BLOOMFIELD, Ohio — Local children will run the vendor tables at the South Bloomfield Summer Market on Friday, selling homemade food, crafts and other goods they made themselves.
The village said the Kid’s Vendor Market runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Marvin Webster Park, 5000 Park Place, as part of its ongoing summer market series.
Every item for sale — produce, flowers, plants, farm-fresh meat, baked goods, crocheted items, snow cones, lemonade, sports cards, jewelry, homemade crafts, 3D-printed products and original artwork — was grown, raised, baked or created by the young vendors with help from their families, the village said in a Facebook post.
The market will also offer free entertainment for families. Roundtown Radio will provide music, Shimmer Strands will give out free hair tinsel, Ms. Claus will hand out free books, Crafting with Criss will host a free children’s craft, and Hope Grows Now will make balloon animals, according to the village.
There won’t be a food truck set up at the kids’ market itself, but the village said its Tortilla food truck will operate separately at the park that evening, and Down Home Treats will sell iced coffee and “dirty sodas.” The young vendors also plan to sell lemonade and baked goods of their own.
South Bloomfield, a Pickaway County village that had a population of 2,143 at the 2020 census, has built its Summer Market into a recurring warm-weather draw, giving area vendors and, on Friday, children a venue to sell directly to the community.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Village of South Bloomfield.
