By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Farmer's Market is getting started Saturday at 2nd and Washington in Hutchinson and things will be a little different due to COVID-19.
"We're going to have to change the physical layout just a little bit," said Sheila Corn with the Farmer's Market. "We'll just have two entrances, one at the front and one at the back. Our vendors will be spread out a little bit more, so that we can be social distancing, but we think that the market is going to go off pretty much like it always has."
The vendors that will be there should be able to fit in the space they have, while still being properly distanced.
"We were going to accept all the vendors that want to come," Corn said. "Some of our vendors are electing to stay home a little bit longer and some of them are having so many sales off of the farm, they don't have anything left to bring on Saturday morning."
Use some of the same precautions you would use if you were going to the grocery store.
"We'd like you, if possible, to send just one member of your household to the market to do your buying," Corn said. "Try to maintain your social distance. That way, our shopping density doesn't get too much."
The Farmer's Market will be open from 7:30 to noon Saturday with the first half hour dedicated to at-risk shoppers. Only vendors should touch the merchandise. No samples will be given.