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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] The Hillsboro, N.C. Farmers Market, a Vendor Operated Market needs your support
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:34:05 -0400



If you have relatives, friends or acquaintances who sell at the Hillsboro,
N.C. Farmers Market now is the time
to show support for them and for keeping that market a vendor operated one
offering access to its resources to all
farmers in the Orange County region.

A basic and essential fact about farmers markets:

What makes a farmers market a success? The vendors and the quality products
they bring to sell to the public;

not boards of directors, presidents, department heads, rules, regulations,
excess fees, bureaucracy, red tape, hoops to
jump through, waiting lists, etc. etc. ad infinitum. People are attracted to
the markets in their region and come each
week to see the farmers and homemakers who brings the fine things they like
to buy and take home with them to enjoy.

Do they come to witness the spectacle of officious, self-serving market
politicians bestowing favors on loyal
non-competitors as they carry out their protectionist agenda? Hardly. Because
protectionism is illegal.

The HFM is facing a takeover attempt by a small group of insigificant
vendors, non-vendors and retired hobby farmers
who want to deprive vendors of any control over their market and limit access
by new vendors based on an arbitrary and
protectionist agenda. They waited until others did all the work of starting
and nurturing the HFM, obtained land and a
federal grant for a shelter to put on it and now that it has matured and
shows signs of becoming one of the best in this
part of N.C are trying to steal it from the vendors for their own exclusive
use.

Show your support now for keeping the Hillsboro Farmers Market a Vendor
Operated Market.

--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Venaura Farm
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://market-farming.com/venaurafarm
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech





  • [permaculture] The Hillsboro, N.C. Farmers Market, a Vendor Operated Market needs your support, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 06/12/2007

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