BATON ROUGE - At this year's Federales Fest, patrons got to shop at a market run entirely by kids.

It's called the Children's Entrepreneur Market, where the kids may be small, but their goals and ideas are big.

For aspiring entrepreneurs like Harper Galloway of Posh Pop Gourmet Popcorn, it starts with a small idea.

"I run this with my sister. In 2020, we were making Christmas holiday treats, and we wanted to pop the popcorn, so when we popped it, we had leftover chocolate and then sprinkles, and we put it on a cookie tray. We were like mmm, this is good and my sister was like I think we got something," Galloway said.

Many of the vendors focused on the upcoming holiday season with lots of fall and winter-themed products, such as entrepreneur Holly Jones of Sketches and Strings, who was

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