Yesterday Z107.7 News reported that the owner of the Joshua Tree Farmers Market received a notice from the county ordering her to decrease the size of the market due to a complaint about parking and traffic in the area. Managing editor Tami Roleff has a follow-up to the story…
Lori Herbel, who owns and operates the Joshua Tree farmers market, said the county is requiring her to reduce the size of her market to only 12 farmers, meaning that the vendors who sell arts and crafts and prepared food items must leave. However, Herbel told Z107.7 News that due to overwhelming support on an online petition to keep the market open (3,500+ as of 8 a.m. Tuesday), she has asked all the vendors to be at the market on Saturday. The county, she said, has given her a compliance date of October 15, which is after this Saturday’s market. Herbel said her goal is to keep the market whole in its present location or to quickly move it to a new location.
