Minot Farmers Market vendors were up early Tuesday morning to set up their displays of garden fresh vegetables, baked goods and other items by opening time at 9 a.m. in the Oak Park parking lot in Minot.

Tuesday was the first day of the season for Minot Farmers Market.

“To me, this is the historical farmers market. It’s been here a long time,” said David Kopp, a Minot Farmers Market vendor from Minot. Kopp was there selling garden fresh produce at a table set up in the parking lot with other vendors.

Nearby, Ann Olson of Hilltop Farm at Des Lacs, attended to customers stopping by to look over produce she had on display. This was her first time as a vendor with the Minot Farmers Market group.

A short distance away, Jana Carlson, 8, and Eleanor Carlson, 5, munched on cookies while their mom, Annie Carlson, waited on customers. The Carlsons, of Morning Joy Farm, came to Minot from Mercer, about 70 miles southeast of Minot, to take part in the farmers market. There, they were selling grass-fed beef and lamb, pastured pork and kuchen.

Wind gusts were a slight problem for some of the vendors at Tuesday’s event. When a sudden gust of wind struck a canopy over the Carlsons’ display table, other vendors rushed to help.

Jeffrey and Emmily Nelson, owners of The Bread Box bakery and patisserie in Minot, offered samples of some of their goods. They said this is their first year at Minot Farmers Market.

Paulette Pollard displayed a table with various bakery items (i.e. cookies, breads, muffins). “I like to bake,” said Pollard, a retired nurse now of Bottineau, who noted she’s originally from Minot. “I started making lefse (labeled Paulette’s Lefse) and went on from there,” she said. She also sells at Pride of Dakota and the Farmers Market in Bottineau held Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon in the Shopko parking lot.

Denin Korgel, of rural Minot, was filling in for his girlfriend, Nancy Bellinghausen, who could not be at Farmers Market that day. He said she made all the items (i.e. baked goods, jams and jellies, vegetables) that were for sale. She also makes the angel pins displayed for sale, he said.

Nick Trumbauer, Minot, market manager for Minot Farmers Market, also is a vendor of Happy Landings Farm. He said eight vendors were taking part in the Tuesday event. Minot Farmers Market allows 30 vendors. “We are full for vendors,” he said.

Nyla Sorenson of Minot, with bakery goods, and Daniel’s Produce, Minot, also took part in Tuesday’s event.

Minot Farmers Market is held Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. until about noon or sold out in the Oak Park parking lot.