At the Grand Island Area Farmers Market, which debuts Saturday, customers will be able to buy much more than vegetables. Vendors will sell flowers, plants, jewelry, beauty products, ice cream, honey, vanilla, popcorn, fudge, lavender, artisan breads, T-shirts and hats. Not only that, but patrons will be entertained by Travis Newcombe, a street magician.

Food trucks will also be on hand. “There’s all kinds of stuff,” says Misty Schaecher, one of the organizers of the farmers market. As of Thursday, 26 vendors were expected to be on hand for the opening day of the Grand Island Area Farmers Market, which runs from 9 a.

m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday on the north side of the parking lot at Bosselman’s corporate offices, 1607 S. Locust St. Schaecher, who had the idea for the farmers market, is president of the organization.

She is the owner of Lily Rose Fresh Cut Flowers. A farmers market makes sense “because vendors like me need a place to sell their product in order to survive as a business,” Schaecher said. The proceeds from the farmers market will help them “continue to provide local products,” Schaecher said.

This way, vendors won’t have to travel to Omaha or Lincoln, she said. The Grand Island Area Farmers Market will run every Saturday in the same location until the fall. The organization will be set up as a nonprofit.

“So that way we can apply for things like USDA grants,” Schaecher said. Many grant opportunities exist for farmers markets, involving such things.