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The Pavilion Voice (For Now)  March 14, 2010

The Columbia Farmers’ Market Pavilion Newsletter

Presented by Sustainable Farms and Communities, Inc.

 

Today’s Quote: Value Health!
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. A. J. Reb Materi

CALL TO ACTION - WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS TO REGISTER SOON!!!
Do you have an hour or two to spare on a Saturday morning to help us run the SF&C booth at the Columbia Farmers’ Market? It is a blast!! We need volunteers to talk with people who stop by, help to accept donations for bags and to just have fun! Your time will play a vital role in our mission! Contact Casey at 823-3663 or casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org if you can help!!! Hours needed are between 7:30 – 12:30 every Saturday morning.

HELP NAME THIS BLOG CONTEST! Two More Weeks! What is YOUR bright idea?
So… got any bright ideas on what we should call this Blog? Send me your suggestions and if we use your idea you will receive (drum roll): Our Gratitude (yeah so!) An interview between you and I posted in the Blog (Nice) $25 in Market Tokens! (SCORE!)

Subject: I Think I’m Clever
To: casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org

< 55

 A NEW CSA – Happy Hollow Farm – Boonville
http://www.happyhollowfarm-mo.com
Happy Hollow Farm CSA welcomes families and individuals to become members or “subscribers”.  Each membership receives a box of seasonal produce every week during the 25 week growing season (mid-May thru the end of October).  In exchange, members sign a contract for the season, agree to pay in advance, and help with some of the harvesting and distribution of the share boxes.

The farmer and the consumer thus provide mutual support and share in the risks and benefits of food production.  Both partners also　share in the enjoyment and rewards of small-scale farming. The goal at Happy Hollow Farm CSA is to provide the highest quality produce possible. They strive to offer the most organized, effective and fun way for the members to buy seasonally fresh food directly from a local farm.

Community-supported agriculture farms began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland, and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land. Groups of consumers and farmers in Europe formed cooperative partnerships to fund farming and pay the true costs of ecologically sound and socially equitable agriculture.

A look at the farmer: Liz Graznak

• Born & raised in Columbia Missouri.　
• Undergrad – Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, majored in Environmental Studies & German
• Masters Degree in Plant Breeding (genetics mostly), Cornell University in Ithaca, NY 　
• Worked for The Accokeek Foundation
• General Manager of Superior Garden Center for 6 years, left late fall 2009
• Bought farm in November of 2007
• Started Happy Hollow Farm Spring of 2008

< 55 is a look at local food enterprises, initiatives and the folks that make it happen. If you have an idea for our next article, let us know!

IN THE KNOW - Come inside on a hot Saturday!
Did you know that the pavilion will not only keep rain off of you while you shop, but it will also allow for many new vendors! There will be more than 100 vendors for you to enjoy! Not only that, the indoor education center will give you a place to escape the heat, use a clean bathroom or baby-changing station and you can check out whatever activity is going on indoors that Saturday. Maybe it is a canning demonstration or a cooking class using the what’s-in-season ingredient of the day!! The indoor center will be 5,000 square feet with offices, a commercial kitchen and a great room for activities. Can you see it? Well, all you need to do now is make a tax deductible donation to make it possible. We can work with on multi-year pledges.

This is your one chance to make a substantial investment in the long term health of the market and the community. Without the Pavilion the market is not guaranteed a permanent home!!! We need everyone to make a contribution and to keep giving as you can. This may take three to five years, but if each year you give an amount equal to how you value the market and the health of your community, we will make it happen!!

If you want to help or you want more information, please call Casey at 823-FOOD.

WHAT’S NEW? 

Photo Contest
Thanks to our board and committee member Peter Meng for his great idea…the contest will be called: “The Columbia Photo Eating Contest…How many photos can you eat?”

In short, it will have professional, amateur and non-juried categories and will focus on ALL aspects of local foods- the CFM, restaurants that serve local, gardens, farms, farmers, picnics with local foods, etc. There will be an entry fee for the juried categories and great prizes to the top three winners. We will have more details soon.  Would you like to be on the committee to iron out the details of the contest? Help to find prizes? Contact me! We want to have this ironed out within a few weeks.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?
We need to show potential major contributors that we have thousands of documented donors. Please VISIT our booth each Saturday at the market and make a donation. If you will pay with a check or please fill out a donation form, we can properly thank you AND be able to document your contribution. Please give what you can!

FACEBOOK! I dare you to get local friends to join OUR group in the next 72 hours.
JOIN the Pavilion Facebook page, which can be found by searching for “farmers market pavilion” at www.facebook.com.

FEATURE ARTICLE – Health Benefits of Fresh Foods

University scientists, federal regulators, and our mothers are all in agreement: Eating fresh, organically grown vegetables and fruits, whole grains and legumes — results in a lower risk of many types of cancers and chronic diseases, and promotes healthy aging and higher energy levels.

Click here for the full article
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=faq&dbid=3

Your Support is Always Appreciated!  Click the link below for the easiest ways to become a part of your Pavilion http://www.farmersmarketpavilion.org/donate.html

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

 

The Pavilion Voice (For Now)

March 14, 2010

The Columbia Farmers’ Market Pavilion Newsletter

Presented by

Sustainable Farms and Communities, Inc.

 Next Saturday

March 20

THE OPENING DAY

30^th Anniversary of Your

Columbia Farmers’ Market

 and another season of great food and your opportunity to help create the Pavilion and Education Center!

Today’s Quote: We are all in this together!

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.  ~Leo Tolstoy

Welcome…

To the ~bi-monthly newsletter from SF&C and your future home of the Farmers’ Market Pavilion and Education Center.  This communication will help to keep you up to date on events, news and activities surrounding the Pavilion Project and the efforts of SF&C.  We hope you will join your community members and make your support of the Pavilion known through a tax-deductible donation or pledge.  The Pavilion can only be built with Your support!  Contact us at: casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org if you want more information about how you can help!

 CALL TO ACTION- CAN YOU VOLUNTEER A LITTLE TIME??

Do you have an hour or two to spare on a Saturday morning to help us run the SF&C booth at the Columbia Farmers’ Market?  It is a blast!!  We need volunteers to talk with people who stop by, help to accept donations for bags and to just have fun!  This also allows me and others to have a moment away from the tent to tour donors who have come to visit.  Your time will play a vital role in our mission!  Contact Casey at 823-3663 or casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org if you can help!!!  Hours needed are between 7:30 – 12:30 every Saturday morning. 

 HELP NAME THIS BLOG CONTEST!

Pavilion Voice is lame…I know!

We are Sustainable Farms & Communities, Inc.  We are about much more than a Pavilion!  We are an organization that seeks to connect Mid-Missourians to local foods and sustainable, healthy practices. 

So… got any bright ideas on what we should call this Blog?

Send me your suggestions and if we use your idea you will receive (drum roll):

1. Our Gratitude (yeah so!)
2. An interview between you and I posted in the Blog (Nice)
3. $25 in Market Tokens!  (SCORE!)

Now do I have your attention?  The Catch:  We need at least 20 separate entries for the contest to be valid.  Otherwise, we will just end up giving it to the ONE person who took the time to come up with an idea.  Victoria, I know it would be you!  So, get your thinking caps on and send me your ideas via email to:

Subject:  I Think I’m Clever

To:  casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org

In The Know- Center Stage!

Did you know that the Pavilion design includes a really cool band shell?  It has been designed to accommodate weddings, concerts, performances and…well anything you can think of!  Imagine shopping for great food while an excerpt from an upcoming Missouri Theater performance is played out for your enjoyment?  Maybe you will put down your Pavilion shopping bag (which you need to get ASAP) for a moment and come out on to the grass and join in a Tai Chi class being conducted from the stage.  Or maybe its kids-got-talent day at the market and your daughter is about to go on stage and sing that indeed the sun will come out tomorrow!  Well you can bet your bottom dollar that the band shell will be fun!  When?  As soon as we all chip in to make it a reality!  We need your support now more than ever. 

We are starting to have talks with some potential major donors and what they want to see are thousands of people making some sort of donation.  While we all want the Pavilion, they want to see that we all have given at least some donation to reflect this support.  So please, make it $20 or $1,000, but let’s show these folks that we are all in this together!

If you want to help or you want more information, please call Casey at 823-FOOD.

What’s New

PHOTO CONTEST!! 

We are in the planning stages of creating the first Columbia Farmers’ Market & Local Foods Photo Contest to be hosted by Sustainable Farms & Communities.  This will be a chance for all of you to submit your best photographs of the market, the people, the food and the fun and to be eligible for some great prizes and recognition.  We believe it will be a three-tiered jury system with perhaps the finalists chosen at the Taste of the Market.  There will be a small entry fee and all photographs will have to be made available to SF&C for promotion and fundraising.  Here is a great way for all of you shutterbugs, shooters and artists to have some fun and to help the Pavilion Project!  Your work will be seen by thousands of people for years to come! 

As soon as we have the details worked out, we will get them out to all of you.  If you want to help with the planning OR you want to donate some items for the prize purse PLEASE contact Casey ASAP!

 HERE… TASTE THIS!

The 2010 Taste of the Market will be held on Saturday August 7 starting at 6 pm.  Mark your calendars now.   If you want to volunteer for the evening contact our volunteer coordinator Amanda Garrison-Reed at amanda@chews-your-health.com.  

We appreciate all of your support and suggestions.  We are working on several national and local mailing campaigns for donations, and we encourage you all to bring more of your friends and family into the cause of building your Pavilion and Education Center!  Last July, there were 6,700 shoppers at the market over a four hour period!  Imagine if all 6,700 made a donation tomorrow!

What Can You Do?  WE NEED TO SHOW THEM ALL!!!

We need to show these potential major contributors that we have thousands of documented donors.  Please VISIT our booth each Saturday at the market and make a donation.  If you will pay with a check or please fill out a donation form, we can properly thank you AND be able to document your contribution.  Please give what you can!  This project is likely to take 3-5 years, and we need to keep all of you involved.  I know we all want to see it built tomorrow, but great things come to those who wait…and donate! 

FACEBOOK! 

Finally, there may be some very creative and fun…and rewarding things happening with our Facebook group in the near future!  Let’s make another push to get the group to new heights.  Please get everyone you know to join our group.  We only send out notice of a blog update or calls to action as necessary.  I really do try to limit the emails, but we are a group of action! Can we get the group to 2,000 members?  I know we can!!  Your help is so much appreciated!

JOIN the Pavilion Facebook page, which can be found by searching for “farmers market pavilion” at www.facebook.com.  

Feature Article

In 1866, 1,186 varieties of fruits and vegetables were produced in California. Today, California’s farms produce only 350 commercial crops…

Click here for the full article

 Your Support is Always Appreciated! 

Click the link below for the easiest ways to become a part of your Pavilion!

http://www.farmersmarketpavilion.org/donate.html

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