Calgary Farmers Market

Friday at the Calgary Farmers Market – Part 1

October 3, 2009

Everyone kept coming and ask me where the meeting was. What meeting? I would reply. I know nothing of a meeting. But they kept coming. And kept asking… Finally I told a few people that they just were not invited. So remember everyone… there was no meeting. To all the paranoid people who think I [...]

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Who is In and Who is Out?

September 30, 2009

Going to be a crazy weekend at the good ole Calgary Farmers Market. Everyone’s deposits for their new spot at the Blackfoot location needs to be in by Sunday. For me, it would be an $8311 deposit and committing to another 10 years of being at the CFM. Life is too short to enslave myself [...]

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New Fast Forward Article on the Calgary Farmers Market

September 24, 2009

Go get it! As I read this article, I actually got angry. Not at Fast Forward, but at the Calgary Farmers Market. But I am trying to stay positive instead of having this blog become Tim’s place to complain. Some vendors are having to put up over $200 000 to go forward. I am being [...]

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The Calgary Farmers Market Go Ahead Plan

September 21, 2009

The 25 members of the Calgary Farmers Market New Generation Coop have voted on Saturday night to approve the Sustainability Committee’s plan to move the farmers market to the Blackfoot and Heritage location. The measure was heavily supported by the members but there were a few dissenting votes, of which I was one. It is [...]

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Another Shot of the Crowd from Saturday

September 8, 2009

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My Initial Thoughts on the New Plan for the CFM

September 7, 2009

Honest to God, my first thought after looking at the plan for the new Calgary Farmers Market was that they should rename it to either the “Calgary Resellers Market” or the “Jack Habina and Friends Market”. More thoughts later. Field work is calling…

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Organic Beef

September 7, 2009

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The Crowd at the Calgary Farmers Market 09/05/2009

September 5, 2009

A shot of the crowd at the Calgary Farmers Market today. This was in one of the slower times when I had a chance to wander away from the stall and take a few pictures. Lots of rumours floating around the market….. It has been three weeks since we were told that we would be [...]