The Drive-Through Bite-Size Market will run weekly on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the parking lot of the Iowa State Capitol complex at East 13th Street and East Grand Avenue. About 20 vendors will line up each week, handing purchases to customers through their car windows.  

Shoppers are welcome to drive past the vendors, selecting among the offerings from their cars. But to keep things moving, they also may preorder goods online. Preorders must be placed by 6 p.m. on the Thursday before each week's market, and Kelly Foss, director of the Downtown Farmers' Market, recommends that customers who have placed orders tape a piece of paper with their name to their cars to help vendors find their packages. 

The new market will be a fraction of the size of the one people know and love, so it won't offer as much variety. But it's a step toward reclaiming one of the many touchstones of Des Moines life that the pandemic has disrupted.

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