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- From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: starting farmers' markets
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:55:04 -0500
I have some questions to ask for those of
you connected with farmer's markets.
Our little market is located downtown, in
the historic district-more tourists than residents (you cook when you go on
vacation don't you ;^/ ??) I drove back down there today to do some
thinking.
Have any of you started your own farmer's
market, or manage/managed one?
Are any of you connected with private
farmer's markets, and is there such a thing?
I have access to several commercial
properties on which to start a new market. The locations are close to the
major shopping area (yes, we only have one!), which pulls from 4 counties.
They're close to several, major, affluent neighborhoods. The city
supports the one downtown, just barely, just so they can appease the other
businesses, and say see? We're trying to build traffic downtown. A
major blow to the area came this past fall when a $125 million bridge project
opened, deflecting all incoming traffic into the downtown-no impulse shoppers
now. I don't know to what extent it will affect the fm, but it must affect
it.
From a consumer's viewpoint (mom with
kids), a new location, where I'd like to put one, would entice me to shop at a
fm. Convenience is the name of the game these days & I feel we farmers
at this particular fm are missing out on alot of sales/potential
customers. The city-run fm has rules that tie the hands of the
farmers (not allowing farm animals to visit occasionally-I'd love to take a
couple of my silkies for the kids to see!), and do not have rules that would
help us (they allow resellers & far too many crafters, & people who sell
socks-go figure!!!). It also has alot of problems with keeping
market managers-lots of favoritism & cat-fights among the women
vendors-I hate this! (Makes me want to get my farmstand built & CSA
going, but can't do it this soon.)
I don't want to run a market-I'm a
farmer. But then I need the market to stay a farmer!
Very frustrated,
Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens Pollocksville, North Carolina |
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starting farmers' markets,
Elizabeth Pike, 01/28/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Betsy, 01/28/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Marcie Rosenzweig, 01/29/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Glenn, 01/29/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Betsy, 01/29/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Lee Lawton, 01/29/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Edward Marshall, 01/29/2000
- Re: starting farmers' markets, Elizabeth Pike, 01/29/2000
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