Correspondent photo / Ben Davis Numerous vendors and social service agencies set up at Sunday’s inaugural 2026 Struthers Farmers Market in the city’s downtown.

STRUTHERS — A farmers market Sunday in the parking lot of Selah Restaurant was a collaborative effort among the city, county and local organizations.

“The city of Struthers, the Struthers Rotary, the Struthers Garden Club and Mahoning County Public Health teamed up to get a farmers market going on here in downtown Struthers,” said Ryan Goist, a member of the Struthers Rotary Club.

Aside from these four organizations, the farmers market included a variety of vendors from all over the area with a wide range of products to sell.

“We’re letting in all local vendors from around the area that have something to sell,” Goist said. “We got food vendors here, we got sourdough breads, we got baked goods, we got fresh produce. We got coffee, dirty sodas, everything.”

The event also allowed people to buy something in person rather than online, which added to the sense of community.

“A lot of these are local people here in Struthers, Campbell and Lowellville, and we get to have a place where they get to showcase their product instead of purchasing on social media. You have a place where someone could see it in person, and get their product,” Goist said.

One noteworthy vendor at the farmers market was the mobile drink concession Bubbles Up Eventures.

“Kind of a play off the word adventures because it’s perfect for all events,” owner Shannon Magallon said.

“It is a drink concession. It is available for private hire and for private parties, whether that be a graduation, a birthday party, Halloween event, we kind of do it all,” Magallon said. “We do public events too. Just wherever they’re having food vendors, just to kind of get the name out there.”

Bubbles Up is especially known for their dirty sodas, which are non-alcoholic carbonated drinks that include pop and a few other ingredients.

“A dirty soda is pop with a flavored syrup, or maybe two flavored syrups in there. Most of them, not all of them though, have a cream base, so you’re getting like a cream soda,” Magallon said.

Also of note at the event was Struthers Councilman Jim Baluck, who dabbles in music as a hobby and performed live music for visitors.

“It has been a hobby since I was probably about 30, and then I retired three or four years ago, and so I spent a bit more time into it,” Baluck said. “When this was all coming together, I was involved in some of the meetings and I said, ‘hey, we need music don’t we?’ So I volunteered to play some music.

“I do a lot of original stuff, but mainly when I play out, I play covers. That’s what people want to hear.”

Baluck praised the farmers market as a way to bring people from all over the community together to socialize and interact with each other.

“Anything that brings out people to downtown I think is a good thing,” Baluck said. “It’s good for people just to get out, and associate with other people. It’s good mental health, just to get out and do that kind of thing.”

Struthers has two more farmers’ markets Aug. 30 and Sep. 27. Both will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.