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Re: update on N Miss. farmers market plans & WIC Farmers Market
- From: mckemie AT inetport.com
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: update on N Miss. farmers market plans & WIC Farmers Market
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:40:08 -0600
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:01:25PM -0500, nan and stewart wrote:
> HI friends, this is in reference to a proposed "farmers market" in n. miss
Well, I thank you for bring this topic to the list. It has certainly
made the list traffic much more interesting for me!
One of my recent posts was a solicitation for stories of long term
success in a mixed peddler - not peddler market. Did you notice that
there were none?
For a non-peddler market to succeed and remain non-peddler, peddlers
must be excluded from decision making. That's pretty obvious. If your
market organizers demand "democracy" and equal status for peddlers, then
it will become a peddler market and, for peace of mind, you must just
accept that. Choose another battle that you have a chance of winning.
Keep your eyes peeled for right thinking folks and band together with
them. After a few years, this new market is likely to generate some
converts to "right thinking". For the first few years you may be able
to make some money at that market and cultivate some new customers.
Just be prepared for the market to become progressively less profitable
for honest participants and for it to eventually die when consumers
become aware of what's going on. How sad that this sorry story has to be
repeated so often and in so many places!
> anyway, thanks for listening....my skin is pretty thin tonight!
Prosper!
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Onward! Through the Fog!
Willie
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown
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update on N Miss. farmers market plans & WIC Farmers Market,
nan and stewart, 02/15/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: update on N Miss. farmers market plans & WIC Farmers Market, mckemie, 02/15/2001
- Re: update on N Miss. farmers market plans & WIC Farmers Market, Vic & Pat Jackowsky, 02/15/2001
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