“A donation was received to cover the costs of a portable tent and chairs for the entertainers along with performance fees to cover six dates,” he said Friday.
“We’ll probably start booking out the music in June, the second or third week in June,” he said.
“I want to see if there’s success with it, and then we’ll look at trying to get grants or donations to fund it the rest of the season, or we’ll fund it, that’ll be a board decision,” he said of the governing board for the Surry Count Farmer’s Market, which oversees the Mount Airy effort.
until 1 p.m., but the Elkin Farmers Market and the market in Dobson, which won’t open until May 13, when its operating hours will be 3:30 p.m.
It’s not strictly a produce market.” Zalescik is also a vendor, selling hot roasted peanuts in the shell and homemade peanut butter.
“As a Surry County Farmers Market we collect one fee for the whole season,” which goes through October, he said.