[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To continue George's line of thought: > > Why don't the governments of Ithaca and Tompkins County build and run > farmers markets? It is shameful that the city extracts rent from Ithaca > Farmers Market for the use of public property, and made us build and > maintain our own structure and grounds, costs that made the overhead > prohibitive for many farmers to sell at the market. To help defray these > costs we were forced to bring more money in by turning the market into a > fast food and arts and crafts touristic mini-mall.
There was talk a few years ago (2001?) about having the Town of Dryden set up a Farmers Market in Varna. I'll see where that went. (Dryden does at least have farmstands around, but there's certainly more possible.) Thanks, Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/ _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
