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Toole County

Shelby Market & Music 2019

Published: 2019
By Kimberly Woodring
Toole County MSU Extension has partnered with the City of Shelby to bring the Shelby Market and Music on Thursday afternoons from July to September. The partnership established the local farmer’s market with a Summer Concert Series. The market hosts local vendors with various foods items and unique crafts. Three regular vendors are from nearby Hutterite Colonies and after every market, they donate unsold items to the local food pantry. Residents of Shelby enjoy the market every summer, but many of the visitors to the Shelby Market are also tourists who are passing through Shelby on Highway 2 on their way to visit Glacier National Park. The market provides a way keep some food production and food dollars very local, which provides a health and financial benefit for Toole County residents. The market vendor participation to an average of seven vendors per market with the use of a marketing campaign of ads on the local newspaper, radio, and Facebook, and with new signs provided by the local print shop, Big Sky Creative Works. The market had both an increase in vendors and attendance in 2019.