Vendors sell out at first North Redondo Farmers Market
by Nikki Yunker Thousands celebrated Earth Day by attending North Redondo Beach’s first weekly farmers market on Wednesday, April 22. Organizers said over 2,000 people strolled by the more than 20 booths set across one block of Green Lane, off Artesia Boulevard between 2-7 p.m. Some vendors sold out during the five-hour event, with visitors choosing from a variety of foods prepared onsite or prepackaged, as well as fresh produce and nursery plants. “It’s great, it’s a lot busier than I expected. I brought four boxes thinking it would get me through the day, but we’re barely two hours in and I’m basically out,” egg seller Markowicz Farms’ Angel Iturbide said. New Farmers Market in N. Redondo Beach Photo by: Nikki Yunker Representatives from OurNRB, a new nonprofit which operates the market, said the number of visitors far exceeded the estimated 300 to 700 people that were anticipated. “It makes me happy because that means that people really wanted this,” OurNRB Vice President Desirée Galassi said. Longtime residents and mother-daughter duo, Kathleen and Jessica Altobelli, walked less than a mile from their home to the market and bought tamales from the Original Tamale Co, almond…
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