[OKC] FW: OSU/OKC Farmer's Market- tomorrow!

[Shauna Struby]

FYI

 

OSU/OKC FARMER'S MARKET - 

How many of us greet a snow day off from work with the anticipation of
getting caught up around the house and cooking a big pot of stew? Now
imagine you are a farmer, perhaps a farmer who has only one day per week to
lay out your weekly harvest - the bounty of your months of hard work - to
procure your paycheck for the entire week. What does a snow day mean to you
now? Ouch.

Stephanie Jordan (Conservation Chair, Sierra Club Cimarron Group), Bob Davis
(Local Food Chair, Sustainable East Oklahoma County), Cheryl Camp (Market
Manager for OSU/OKC) and Dianne Perkins (Sierra Club) didn't want to see
that happen, so we put on our thinking caps and picked up the phone. The
result is Farmer's Market Take Two, at the usual Saturday meeting spot (400
N Portland) THIS SUNDAY FROM 12:00-3:00.

Some of the vendors were skeptical about how many shoppers could be
re-routed on short notice, so let's show them the power of community and
show up in droves. Please post this to any applicable listservs you know of,
mention it to your friends at church, or ask your neighbor if they would
like to go with you, or even offer to pick something up for them. Cheryl
will also be contacting the local news sources.

We can use our networking to turn a would-be financial hit for the farmers
into a chance to see how much the community is in their corner. And isn't
that why we all do what we do?

See you tomorrow!

Steph, Bob, Cheryl and Dianne

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