Coming to LA: Mar Vista Farmers Market
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 08. 4.06
Residents of Los Angeles, listen up: a new farmers' market opens in downtown Mar Vista this coming Sunday, August 6th. From 9:00 am to 1 pm every Sunday thereafter, the market will bring local, organic produce, fresh flowers, prepared foods and more to the west LA neighborhood; the market will be on Grandview Blvd. between Venice Blvd. and Pacific Avenue. The market fills a void in the community that lost its nearest market at the Santa Monica Airport earlier this year, helping those in the area hoping to solve the organic vs. local riddle by doing both at the same time. This Sunday also marks the beginning of National Farmers Market Week, so if you don't live in the City of Angels, go find one closer to home to go to. Thanks to J for the tip! ::Mar Vista Farmers Market
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There are more than 3700 farmers markets that take place every week during growing season throughout the USA. This is a core constituency for ecological systems and solutions.
I would suggest that people start demonstrating practical energy and resource alternatives like simple, affordable solar and energy efficiency devices at farmers markets. If we start now and continue through the Autumn, there will be a lot more people ready to survive and thrive under whatever conditions the vicissitudes of fortune, acts of God, or cold of Winter throw our way. After all, Solar Is Civil Defense.
Do such activities regularly with a political tinge and it will have a real effect on the November 2006 elections. One technique I like is copying WWII homefront energy and conservation posters and displaying them at farmers markets and other local events. It is exceedingly educational to look at the difference in attitude on the homefront of WWII and in the homeland of Gulf War II. See
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2006/07/its-all-one-war-that-never-ends.html for further information (and downloadable posters).
They didn't lose the market at the Santa Monica Airport. That market was originally at Virginia Park. The park went under renovation and the FarMar found a temporary home at the airport, now the renovation is done and the market moved back home.