OSU/OKC FARMER'S MARKET -

How many of us greet a snow day off from work with the anticipation of getting
caught up around the house and cooking a big pot of stew? Now imagine you are a
farmer, perhaps a farmer who has only one day per week to lay out your weekly
harvest - the bounty of your months of hard work - to procure your paycheck for
the entire week. What does a snow day mean to you now? Ouch.

Stephanie Jordan (Conservation Chair, Sierra Club Cimarron Group), Bob Davis
(Local Food Chair, Sustainable East Oklahoma County), Cheryl Camp (Market
Manager for OSU/OKC) and Dianne Perkins (Sierra Club) didn't want to see that
happen, so we put on our thinking caps and picked up the phone. The result is
Farmer's Market Take Two, at the usual Saturday meeting spot (400 N Portland)
THIS SUNDAY FROM 12:00-3:00.

Some of the vendors were skeptical about how many shoppers could be re-routed on
short notice, so let's show them the power of community and show up in droves.
Please post this to any applicable listservs you know of, mention it to your
friends at church, or ask your neighbor if they would like to go with you, or
even offer to pick something up for them. Cheryl will also be contacting the
local news sources.

We can use our networking to turn a would-be financial hit for the farmers into
a chance to see how much the community is in their corner. And isn't that why we
all do what we do?

See you tomorrow!

Steph, Bob, Cheryl and Dianne