Comment on Tupelo farmers’ market gets early start

Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.comCraig Helmuth, program associate for the Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association, checks some newly planted flowers in the truck bed at the Farmers’ Depot on Wednesday afternoon in Tupelo. The market will have a soft opening Saturday. Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.com Carl Brangenberg, market manager for the Farmers Depot, and Helmuth clean up at the market. By Ginna Parsons Daily Journal TUPELO – The Tupelo Farmers’ Depot will have a soft opening Saturday, a week ahead of schedule. “We had farmers who needed to get stuff out of the fields, and we wanted to give them a place to go,” said Craig Helmuth, assistant marketing manager for the farmers’ market and program associate for the Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association.