- July 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
After over a year on hiatus, the Eastside Backyard Market is back with a straightforward goal: give locals one more way to find and support small businesses.
The market was in business Sunday outside of East Side Denton, making its second appearance since its return. About a dozen small businesses from around the Dallas-Fort Worth area were set up from 2 to 6 p.m., including bakers, soap makers, artists and more.
The Backyard Market has been run since 2015, under a total of three separate organizers. It stopped being held in 2019, when the second of those people moved to a different state, but made its return last month under the organization of Katie Burke and her pandemic-born business, Madeby Events.
Burke said her business seemed like a good fit to bring back the market for its third iteration, offering herself and other small business owners another opportunity to network and build their clientele.
“The big thing is…