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Market Opens May 30!

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Welcome back!

The 2010 season of the Brighton Farmers’ Market opens Sunday, May 30 at 9 am.    The farmers have been taking advantage of our early, warm spring, and they’ll be bringing an abundance of fresh, early summer crops to whet our appetites for the season ahead.  Come for sweet tender peas, asparagus, lettuce and other salad greens, radishes, and maybe the first strawberries.   Greet your favorite farmers and meet some new ones; see the vendor list in the sidebar.

Supervisor Sandra Frankel will join us once again for the traditional cutting of the vine, and Clamor will again launch the new season with its one-of-a-kind musical style.  What other market anywhere celebrates its grand opening with a trombone?

Green Energy Fair June 13

Color Brighton Green will host its annual Green Energy Fair at the market on Sunday, June 13.  The Energy Fair will showcase businesses, technologies, and organizations promoting greater energy-efficiency.  There will be a silent auction of energy-saving devices and services to support educational programs of Color Brighton Green.  Color Brighton Green is a great partner of the Brighton Farmers’ Market and will once again collect recylables at the market, including #5 plastics.  For more information about the Green Energy Fair, see http://www.colorbrightongreen.org/site/index.php?page=energy-fair

EBT, Credit, and Debit at the market

Thanks to Foodlink, the market will again welcome EBT shoppers at the market.  Just bring your EBT card to the Foodlink table and purchase tokens to use as cash.   It is also possible to purchase tokens with credit or debit cards; the tokens also can be used like cash at the market.  Thanks to Foodlink, and please support its good work in the community.

Request for Support

Many of you have asked to have prepared, ready-to-eat foods available at the Brighton Farmers’ Market.  Unfortunately, the current permitting fees required by the Monroe County Health Department have made it prohibitively expensive for small-scale restaurants and caterers to sell their food at farmers’ markets.  We are requesting that the Monroe County Legislature consider legislation to reduce the fees.  We feel that this would be a huge boost to farmers’ markets and would allow us to offer the delicious, high-quality prepared food that so many have asked for.   We would be grateful if you would be willing to send a letter of support for this proposal to your Monroe County Legislator (see http://www.monroecounty.gov/legislature-legislators.php for a list of legislators).   Alternatively, you may send the letter to us at info@brightonfarmersmarket.org and we will forward it.  A sample letter follows; please add your name, and feel free to change or add anything you wish.

To the Monroe County Legislature:

I, ______________________, support legislation to amend the current Monroe County Health Department permit to operate a temporary food service establishment. In the case of local farmers markets, it is fiscally unreasonable to require local restaurants to pay the required $115 fee every 14 days. Since each market is open only one day per week, the reality is that the restaurant is paying $115.00 for only 2 events within those 2 weeks.

It would be to the benefit of the local businesses, farmers markets, and the community to require a once per season fee of $115 to serve prepared food at farmers markets in Monroe County.

Local farmers markets provide a critical nutritional and social value to the community and this effort will allow them to increase their market attendance and therefore increase their value to the neighborhoods that they serve, while continuing to support local businesses, and our local farmers.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

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