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ORAL HISTORY
Tyler Horne
Urban Harvest Farmer's Market
On a Saturday morning in 2008, Tyler Horne arrived for the first time as a volunteer at the Urban Harvest Farmers Market. “I’ll never forget that day,” he says. “My brother had been in a bad motorcycle accident on 59 the night before. I had gone to take care of him, with our family, and I had committed to going in that morning. So, on very little sleep, I showed up to the market.”
A recent college graduate, Tyler found Urban Harvest “by just searching around,” and when asked what inspired him to pursue this opportunity says- “I was looking for more connection in my life and I wanted to be involved in something.”
Little did he know that bleary-eyed morning marked the beginning of a seventeen-year journey. He was appointed the Market’s full time manager in 2010, and upon announcing his 2025 departure he said, “I got to help grow a market that became more than a place to shop. It’s where small businesses found their start, relationships were built and community showed up week after week. I learned to live with patience, navigate conflict and be present through the good and the hard. I’m proud of what we built and even prouder of the people I built it with.”
