This event has been postponed.
Some of the first items up for sale at Buena Vista Township’s new Farmers Market will not be fresh.
They won’t even be food.
Instead of cucumbers and corn from local growers, customers this weekend may choose from items recovered from BV closets and cellars.
The giant rummage sale is titled, “Let’s Get Ready for Spring” and the location is behind the former BV High School, with a northbound turn onto Towerline off of Holland Road (M-46), across from the Nexteer plant.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 4-5, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6.
In addition to helping the community, the event will provide a trial run before the 2023 harvest begins and the actual fresh produce arrives. Buena Vista has received a $200,000 grant from the USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, and is investing $100,000 local match to begin economic development in the former school, which closed nine years ago.
Volunteers have donated dozens of hours to clean up the site.
BV Superintendent Torrie Lee said, “One of the goals of the Township is to create as well as welcome projects that will provide positive and significant quality-of-life improvements for the community as a whole, and we strongly believe that (the Farmers Market) is one project that will indeed do just that.”
Reservations for 20 tables this weekend already are filled. For the upcoming Farmers Market, prospective vendors may contact Ashley Griffith in Buena Vista’s Human Resources Department, (989) 702-6070, agriffith@bvct.org.
