The Aspen Saturday Farmers Market season has been shortened due to availability of supplies, as well as the high cost of monitoring social distancing and crowd sizes in the world of COVID-19.
So instead of beginning this Saturday, June 13, the market is anticipated to start June 20.
City officials said last month that the market would run until mid-October, but now it’s going to run until Sept. 5.
It could go longer, but that will be based on the success of the market this summer, whether farmers have enough produce and if the city can fund extra expenditures, said Mitch Osur, the city’s director of parking and downtown services.
If the market goes well and it’s popular enough, Osur said he will ask Aspen City Council for extra money to extend past Sept. 5.