Hmm... Is it time for Marianne to make her own farmer's market?
;) Lol that sounds like a LOT of work for an already super busy chick!
We're headed to ours on Saturday. Super excited.
Hmm... Is it time for Marianne to make her own farmer's market?
;) Lol that sounds like a LOT of work for an already super busy chick!
We're headed to ours on Saturday. Super excited.
I have been sitting on my hands to not volunteer for the market project. It is founded and directed by a non- profit that is administering a grant that was given to Lemon Grove from a huge health care provider. I was part of the original steering committee and spend a lot of my time banging my head against the wall. So frustrating to see the money go to administration and printing and bull like that. From the original 1 million dollar grant, the citizens got one walking path in a park that was given to the cheapest contractor who did a shitty job.
This is part of the next phase of the grant and the person they hired to start the market has already started a bunch of markets - that pretty much all failed. I did give them a presentation on how to promote with all kinds of ideas how to get the people involved and engaged - so far, I haven't even gotten the flyers yet to put on my little library which many people frequent. No Instagram campaign, Facebook, anything. So frustrating!!!
But I have better things to do than to bang my head against stone walls...
Exactly. No sense trying to teach someone that doesn't want to learn. Your contributions won't go unrecognized by folks that are serious about the project. If it does go under, I bet your yard will be the new market ;)
That's sad to hear about misappropriated funds.
Well, they all seemed to be spent in a fine way with the project donor. They thought that 100,000 in printing cost was okay. Just many of the activists that were excited and involved in the project felt that a) nobody was really interested in our opinion and b)that the community got very little out of the deal... Oh well.
One of the framers is very local and I always will support him. Maybe, once I have finished some of my projects, I revive that Organic Edibles Garden Club I used to run. But all of that is a lot of work and right now, I feel I want to work on my own stuff for a while :)