After three months shoulder-to-shoulder in a secondary building, vendors and customers of the St. Jacobs Farmers Market will have a bit more elbow room starting next week.
The market announced Wednesday that its new, 15,600-square-foot ‘Harvest Barn’ building will open Dec. 12.
It replaces, temporarily, the main market building destroyed by fire in September.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be opening the Harvest Barn right before Christmas,” market general manager Sheila Shantz said in a news release.
“The Waterloo Region community has been a true source of inspiration for us and the support that we have received over the past three months speaks to the tremendous character of the community that we live in.”
The ‘Harvest Barn’ will house 49 of the market’s vendors for the last three weeks of 2013 and most of 2014.
A permanent home for those vendors is expected to be built by late 2014.
