Say HELLO to the LGFM Manager!

Here is La Grande Farmers Market’s Market Manager!!

This is LGFM’s manager! Her name is Candi Nielsen, and she started out as a volunteer with the Market and then was the Assistant Manager for several seasons and then she became the manager a couple of years ago. You probably have seen her at the Info booth, handing out tokens, taking questions, helping vendors get settled and being a constant presence at the market.

Candi was raised here locally in beautiful Union, Oregon, where she lived with her family on a small family farm with a vegetable garden, honeybee hives, fruit trees, a greenhouse, chickens, lambs, pigs, horses and many other animals. She spent her childhood learning how to preserve the vegetables and fruit harvested, fixing fences, exploring the woods outside Union, as well as hunting, fishing, foraging for mushrooms and gathering huckleberries with her family. She was an avid horseback rider and was part of her local 4-H club and high school FFA club. She has many fond memories of traveling to La Grande and going with her mom to the Farmers Market and recalls it being what she fondly calls a weekly “pilgrimage” for her family. She continued this same ritual with her own daughters and now continues the tradition with her grandchildren.

Be sure to stop by and say HI to Candi, your friendly LGFM manager!