A new event is coming to Waynesburg at the Greene County Fairgrounds this spring, summer, and autumn: the Greene County Marketplace. Starting May 20, the Greene County Marketplace will run from late spring into summer and through the month of October. It will be open every Saturday from 9am until 1pm.
Looking for a place to get some fresh produce? Or maybe a bite to eat? Or just something handcrafted locally with love? The Greene County Marketplace will be a good place to visit. Like a farmers’ market, the marketplace will offer different things for sale from a variety of local businesses. While their key target is vendors selling produce, plants, and other foods and beverages, the marketplace hopes to attract many different vendors. Other vendors are wanted selling crafts, flowers, and bath & body products as well. There will be vendors selling ready-made food for purchase with some flea market vendors as well, so it is not just a place for produce and things alike. It’s an entire market of homemade and handmade goods.
The mission of the Greene County Marketplace is to provide educational and growth opportunities for prospective, new, and current small business owners through the weekly market. The focus for them is to make this a place for Greene County products to be sold. With that in mind, people selling their products made in Greene County will get priority for vendor spots. For everyone else looking to get a spot to sell their goods, it will be on a first come first serve basis.
The Waynesburg Prosperous & Beautiful annual Farmers’ Market starts in May as well (May 17) and will continue weekly on Wednesdays until mid-October in downtown Waynesburg. The new market has some similarities to that established farmers’ market, and it runs at similar months, but it is not meant to be a competition. Instead of competing against each other, the two are hoping to work together to make each other better and support both one another and local businesses.
If you have any questions, are interested in being a vendor, or are looking for more information for the Greene County Marketplace, contact the market manager at greenecountymarketplace@gmail.com. The market hopes to give people who want to sell the goods that they make or produce an opportunity to get their items out to the public and be able to sell it to a wider selection of customers.