Posted by Ruth Marsh on August 24, 2009 at 12:09am
Hi everyone
Here's an idea. We have not been able to get a permanent stall at the Kerikeri Farmers market for Transition Towns...... That's probably because it is a farmers market not a growers market. Listen to the distinction in the talk on the you tube below. It's based on the Whangarei experience.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TranisitonTownWHGREI
So here's the idea. How about we have an OOOOby stall at the famers market. At this stall we sell produce on behalf of others. For example some people may have just one basket of kumara or oranges to sell, not a whole stall. We in our community garden have had surplus cauliflower recently which we could have sold at the market.
We can operate this stall by sharing responsibilty amongst all OOOOby members - or at least those who are able and willing.....We take a small percentatge of the sale to pay for the stall. And we promote Transition Towns as the stall as well.
How about it??
Please leave comments because I think this has potential.
Thanks for reading this far.
Ruth
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Excellent idea. Maybe it could also be used as a trading table, eg if someone wanted to bring in a basket of kumeras and exchange for a basket of oranges. I could probably also do one Sunday a month.
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