Lansdale Farmers Market
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Calling All Vendors!
The Lansdale Farmers’ Market is excited to announce that we are now accepting vendor applications for the 2012 season!
Our mission is to maintain a seasonal farmers’ market that supports local producers of healthy, nourishing foods and quality, crafted goods. We desire to build community while providing educational programs that promote local,
sustainable living. In keeping with this goal, we strive to select vendors who reflect these values and assist us in promoting education and creating community.Click here to download an application.
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Food Day!
Today marks the first annual Food Day! Sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. The supporters of Food Day have six principal goals:- Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods
- Support sustainable farms & limit subsidies to big agribusiness
- Expand access to food and alleviate hunger
- Protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms
- Promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids
- Support fair conditions for food and farm workers
The Lansdale Farmers’ Market supports these goals and further wishes to inspire awareness and appreciation for FOOD! We encourage our customers to consider where their food comes from—who grows it, bakes it or prepares it and how? Our market is proud to have vendors who understand the need for sustainable practices in agriculture, a commitment to our community’s access to food and fair conditions for workers.
So today, please celebrate food—fresh fruits, vegetables and healthy whole grains and support the local farms and farmers that produce them. Think more closely about the importance of feeding your family healthy food produced in a sustainable way. And share our passion for this cause by supporting the Lansdale Farmers’ Market….just two Saturdays left in the season!
Learn more at www.foodday.org/
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Labor Day!
According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, the first Monday in September shall honor the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. There are many folks in our community who are more than deserving of this tribute, and among them are the vendors of the Lansdale Farmers’ Market.
While you and I are sound asleep in our comfortable beds each morning, the farmers who bring produce to market have been awake for hours, harvesting crops before the sun rises and steals the moisture collected throughout the night. And it’s no secret that bakers are early risers, production begins by 3am to get the ovens loaded in time to have our morning muffins ready and waiting for us. And beyond just being laborers, these men and women are small business owners, running every aspect of their company from CEO to cashier.
Like most holidays in the US, we often lose sight of the original intent for the observance. It probably crosses our minds to honor workers on Labor Day, but the thought is quickly dismissed as we hurriedly prepare for weekend parades, cookouts or last minute school preparations. This year we encourage you to honor some of the hardest working people in our community WHILE you stock up for that weekend barbecue. As you visit the market this Saturday think about our hard working vendors and the contributions they make. Ironically, while you and I are at our picnics and parades, many of them will likely be in the fields and kitchens working to keep their small businesses profitable.
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