Downtown SLO is excited to welcome our community back to the Market. After more than a year of non-operation and reduced capacity as an essential market due to COVID-19, Downtown SLO is thrilled to announce that the Thursday Night Farmers’ Market has returned to full operations, taking over five blocks of Higuera street every Thursday beginning June 17 from 6-9 pm. In addition to the Certified Farmers Market section, which features 25-30 produce vendors each week, Market visitors can now expect to see the following types of vendors when they come Downtown on Thursday nights:

• Certified Farmers offering fresh local produce
• Food Artisans offering pre-sealed to-go food items/ingredients such as bread, pastries, salsa, and more.
• Craft/Home goods such as soap, salves, candles, and more.
• Hot/Cold food, including BBQ, Korean, Indian, tamales, donuts, and more.
• Entertainment, including market favorites like Lord of the Cello (electric cello), Derek Derek (acrobats and juggling), comedy acts, rock covers and more.

Vendors and Entertainment Market Map

In accordance with the state of California reopening guidelines, masks and social distancing will not be required at the Market.

For more information on the market please visit DowntownSLO.com/farmers and follow @DowntownSLOFarmersMarket

Chamber Series: Schubert, Mozart, & Clara Schumann

Schubert – String Trio in B-flat, D. 581

Chamber Series: Schubert, Mozart, & Clara Schumann

Schubert – String Trio in B-flat, D. 581

The History Center of San Luis Obispo County will offer free, one-hour guided tours every Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. from the front of the Carnegie Library at 696 Monterey Street. Tours begin this Saturday, June 19 and will continue through Labor Day weekend.

Each tour will focus on the Mission Plaza sites that are associated with the actions of the 1858 Committee of Vigilance, the subject of the recent book The Quick and the Dead: Resistance, Banditry, and Vigilance Revisited on the Central Coast by History Center volunteer Pete Kelley. With the relaxation of most Covid-19 measures, masks will be needed only for those who are not fully vaccinated. This weekly tour is accessible to those in wheelchairs or other impairments.

Attendees will “walk back” to a turbulent time when Monterey Street was El Camino Real, a dusty lane running through an anxious pueblo with a derelict and “secularized” Mission San Luis Obispo. Next to it, where the History Center now stands was the only one wood-frame house in town. That was the home of a remarkable woman, Ramona Carrillo Pacheco Wilson, whose story is revealed in this tour – along with the dreadful reality of the vigilantes and their victims.

Saturdays in Summer

Starting at 10:00 am

Meet at the Carnegie Library

696 Monterey Street

No charge, come and enjoy!