{"id":246291,"date":"2026-07-18T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:14:09","slug":"scranton-farmers-market-draws-crowds-for-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246291\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton farmers\u2019 market draws crowds for opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Opening day at the Co-Op Farmers&#8217; Market brought hundreds of people out for fresh fruit, vegetables, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dozens of vendors displayed freshly grown food and plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many families make it a tradition to stop by each year, they say it&#8217;s something for the family to look back on, and a way to support local farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Parish bazaar serves as important fundraiser;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/parish-bazaar-serves-important-fundraiser-013843200.html\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Parish bazaar serves as important fundraiser\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;These farmers work very, very hard. They don&#8217;t charge a lot for their goods here, and it&#8217;s all home-grown, and it couldn&#8217;t be any better, really. It&#8217;s like having your own garden right here for sale without having to do all the work,&#8221; Fred Jospeph of Dickson City said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Farmers&#8217; Market is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through Thanksgiving Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Opening day at the Co-Op Farmers&#8217; Market brought hundreds of people out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13929,201,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-246291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-farmers-market","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}