Columbia Farmers Market announces plans for new community center

Columbia, Mo. (KMIZ)

New additions are expected to be added to the Columbia Farmers Market within the next year.

During a Columbia Convention and Visitors Advisory Board Meeting on Tuesday, members presented the newest addition to the Columbia Farmers Market, a community welcome center set to come in 2025.

According to the project's website, the center will have various features like an activity room, commercial kitchen, and office spaces.

Residents and local businesses can rent out the activity hall and commercial kitchen for catering and other events. Additionally, the kitchen can be used by small businesses who want to launch their food business or by people who are cooking meal kits for the Central Pantry food bank.

In a partnership with the Daniel Boone Regional Library, people will also be able to rent out books and gardening and kitchen tools at a free tool checkout space in the center's resource library, a space where any gardeners or cooks can ask questions and learn more about gardening and food preparation.

Staff from the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and Columbia Farmers Market will be able to use the space for strategy meetings on food security programs as well as educate the public on gardening and cooking.

The Columbia Farmers Market is currently open Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon and Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.