Farmer’s Market sets Trick or Treat Day
The Scripps Ranch Farmer’s Market invites all ghosts and goblins to enjoy an early afternoon and evening of trick or treating, shopping, dining and overall Halloween fun at the market on Oct. 24 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 10045 Carroll Canyon Road. There is no fee to enter the market.
Market manager Beverly Cassity described all the fun she has planned for the event.
“We’ve got our 20-foot dragon with wings that go up and down. We put him at the very front of the market. All the kids come out and the parents take pictures of their kids in front of the dragon,” she said. “They walk through the archway that has black strings hanging down. That’s how they enter the Farmer’s Market.”
Cassity is bringing in a big inflatable slide for the youngsters, and parents should make sure their children bring their trick or treat bags because there will be plenty of goodies.
“Once they get inside the Farmer’s Market, every single vendor will have treats for the kids. There will be probably 50 vendors,” she said. “We encourage the parents to dress their kids in costumes.”
The vendors will decorate their booths, and many will dress in Halloween costumes.
“Our deejay is going to be playing Halloween music to get everybody into the Halloween feeling. Our deejay sets the vibe for the market,” Cassity said. “Most farmer’s markets don’t do this. I think we are one of the only farmer’s markets that do this.”
Cassity chose Oct. 24 to hold the Scripps Ranch Farmer’s Market Halloween event because Halloween falls on a Thursday this year. Since the market is held each week on a Thursday, that would have meant the market would interfere with traditional Halloween trick or treating. She said that many of the Farmer’s Market vendors have families with children, and they wanted to take their kids trick or treating on Halloween. Therefore, the Scripps Ranch Farmer’s Market trick or treat event will be held one week earlier, on Oct. 24. The Scripps Ranch Farmer’s Market will not be held on Oct. 31.
