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The 2010 Season is coming!

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Spring feels right around the corner, and plans are underway for the 2010 season of the Brighton Farmers’ Market.  Opening Day will be May 30; save the date and plan to come with your family to greet the market’s great local farmers and vendors.   Enjoy a cup of coffee and listen to toe-tapping live music while the kids have fun with special activities.

VENDORS:

The Brighton Farmers’ Market welcomes applications from farmers and vendors.  Farmers using organic and sustainable methods of agriculture are especially encouraged to apply.  Applications and rules for the 2010 season are now available at this website; click on “Becoming a Vendor.”  If you would like to apply, please carefully read the rules and submit your application as instructed in the application.  Applications are due by March 26.

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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