March 2010

Day97

March 12, 2010

Chores, emails, writing my Local 101 talk, picking up kids, digging a bean out of a 4 year olds nose, back to writing the talk, putting finishing touches on application forms, back to the talk, to bed.

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Article in the Calgary Beacon

March 10, 2010

Here is another great article about what we are trying to do with the Kingsland Farmers Market. “The biggest benefit of farmers markets is they allow for the building of one on one relationships between farmers and the people who eat their food,” says Hoven. “Farmers markets allow farmers to generate more income for the [...]

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Day 98

March 10, 2010

Today was kind of a personal day. My wife is expecting a baby and today was the ultrasound day. I did chores, and then we headed off to town. Everything was all good with the baby. I always find it exciting to see little babies on the ultrasound monitor. And yes, the baby is due [...]

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Day 99

March 10, 2010

A good day today. Lots of visits to the ilovealbertafarmers.com website since Sunday. The exciting part is how the idea is spreading. The vast majority of visits are from Calgary, then other parts of Alberta. We even had a few visitors from Europe. Quite a few vendor registrations through the website. The neat thing is [...]

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ilovealbertafarmers.com

March 7, 2010

For more information on the proposed Kingsland Farmer’s Market, please visit our new website www.ilovealbertafarmers.com. Do you love Alberta Farmers?

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Introducing the Kingsland Farmers’ Market!

March 6, 2010

What a week! First the links… FFWD Weekly http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/news/calgary-farmers-market-vendors-break-out-to-form-new-local-market-5313/ Calgary Herald http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Farmers+Market+vendors+consider+move+breakaway+local+market/2641679/story.html The best part of the article are the comments. I think you get a great feel for what people are thinking about. Generally, people are really positive and excited for our vision. We have about 100 days until we want to open the [...]