Erin and Joe Eaton, left, offer sauce samples to customers at the Columbia Basin Home and Garden Show Friday morning. They sell products from small-scale barbecue and hot sauce producers, Joe Eaton said, the sort of thing you can’t find in the grocery store.
March 3, 2023
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Columbia Basin Home and Garden Show draws crowds
MOSES LAKE — It was only about an hour into the first day of the Columbia Basin Home and Garden Show Friday morning, and already the place was packed. “I’m very happy with the way it’s started,” said Joe Eaton, behind tables laden with hot sauces and jerky. “You know, I've been vending for 28 years. And when someone says it's a first-time event, I always get a little nervous.” The show occupied the Commercial Building at the Grant County Fairgrounds, and it wasn’t just customers who filled the venue. The show’s organizers, the team at Seed Cupboard Nursery, had originally planned for 50 vendors, but ended up having closer to 70. Originally, the organizers had asked a different organization to put the show together, Seed Cupboard owner Lisa Villegas said, but couldn’t get anyone interested, so they ended up organizing it themselves.