Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
Courtesy Brandie Schaeffer
With social distancing guidelines in result, a popular farmer’s market in Fauquier County, Virginia, chose to make its opening day a drive-thru event, motivating people to remain apart during the coronavirus break out.
It went better than anticipated.
More than 350 vehicles lined up to purchase produce from the farmer’s market in Warrenton, as its opening day transitioned from customers walking through to driving through.
” What we did was take our suppliers and use a series of the town’s parking area to put the suppliers in a sort of drive-thru model,” stated Warrenton Town Manager Brandie Schaeffer.
The market motivated pre-orders and established a website with links to all the suppliers, in addition to their contact number. They generally see around 500 clients at each market, but Schaeffer stated they weren’t sure if people would show up to drive-thru.
She was happily shocked when the line of cars and trucks appeared for their 45 th opening day.
” I believe everyone was just excited to likewise just sort of go out. We’re looking at each other through masks and talking from a social range viewpoint however it was also just great to see our homeowners and to see our vendors and just to have a chance to even wave and get your fruit and vegetables along the way so I believe it was a much necessary thing for our community,” Schaeffer said.
They’re taking it week by week, but intend on having the farmer’s market every Saturday from 8 a.m. to twelve noon.
” The farmers market is among those things that our citizens love and they like strolling down there and connecting, however there is constantly the other side of it, which is we are a rural agricultural community so supporting our regional farmers is very important to us,” Schaeffer stated.
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