If You're In the Market...

It may look all calm and serene here on the blog front -- lots of happy nodding flowers and delicious food -- but behind the scenes, I've been scrambling like crazy to do my part in the plans for launching our local foods market.

As a quick update, we finally have a legal entity now and an elected Board of Directors (I was chosen to serve as secretary), and we're pushing out the publicity with brochures at local Earth Day fairs, mini-posters around town, and press releases for (and interviews with) newspapers in the area. And let's not forget, we've also been trying to pin down the phasing of our project and figuring out what renovations will need to be done to the building and when.

Whew!


We're making amazing progress, and it's time to go public. We're holding a community information meeting at the public library (here in Wooster) on Monday, May 4 at 7 PM, and we hope to draw in lots of local growers and other food producers as well as potential customer-members to share with them the dream and the plan. It should be an exciting evening -- lots of people have already expressed enthusiasm for our project -- and if you're in the area, you're welcome to attend.

We've still got a lot of work to do, but we hope that the enthusiasm we generate Monday night will bring some other volunteers into the picture so we can push ahead even more.

Won't you Root us on?