[Highland Park] Save the Highland Park Farmers Market!
The Farmers Market Friends organization is holding a seminar called Fifty Ways to Love Your Market this Saturday, January 14, 2006 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church from 9:30-12:00. If you haven't heard, the Highland Park Farmers Market (also known as the "Zoo" market" is being moved to a location closer to the Highland Park Reservoir. Moving a market can be devastating, and if the community does not get involved, the market may not survive this transition. The Highland Park Farmers Market is another wonderful feature of living in Highland Park. For those of you who may have stopped attending the market because of the traffic or because one of your favorite vendors no longer participates, this is your opportunity to help shape the market and make it the best it can be. Farmers Market Friends is a grass-roots organization of individuals who understand what farmers markets mean to a community: the freshest food, interaction with the growers, a meaningful social experience, reinvestment of dollars into the local and regional economy, and help sustaining smaller and family-owned farms as well as preserving green space in Western Pennsylvania. Representatives from the City and the media will be in attendance, so having a strong show of support at this meeting is imperative. DeeAnna Cavinee is the organizer of the meeting and will be facilitating the meeting with the goal of creating an action plan to support the resettlement effort. See www.farmersmarketfriends.org for more information, or call DeeAnna Cavinee at (412) 576-9355.
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Michelle Belan