Lollapalooza Farmers' Market
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Join us for Lollapalooza's Farmers' Market - coming to a town near you!
July and August 2003
Come sell your organic produce at one of the summer's biggest traveling
music festivals - Lollapalooza! (see listing of cities at end of this email)
This year, Lollapalooza, in partnership with Localharvest.org and in collaboration with
NewFarm.org,
will present a farmer's market in every city we visit. The goal of Lollapalooza's Organic Farmer's
Market is to educate the public about the importance of buying local and organic and to provide an
arena for local farmers to sell their ready-to-eat produce - and we need your help! We would love
to have you join us for the day and sell anything that's organic, good tasting and
ready-to-eat. So summer fruits are perfect as well as nuts, fresh roasted
corn on the cob, homemade sweets, pies and cookies. We'd love to have you
bring your fresh strawberries, grapes, nectarines, cherries, blackberries,
watermelon, etc and more to sell at Lollapalooza!
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In case you don't know, Lollapalooza is an all day music festival whose fans
are an eclectic bunch. They come early and stay all day. They are dedicated
to the music and excited to check out what¹s new. Lollapalooza will feature
up-and-coming band as well as headliners like Jane's Addiction, Audioslave
and Incubus. Lollapalooza will perform in outdoor amphitheaters and other
venues across the United States this summer, and attendance at each show is
expected between 15,000 and 30,000 patrons per day.
Lollapalooza's Farmers' Market will help educate the public that:
Nearly 20 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S. goes into growing,
processing and delivering the food we eat.
Most of our food travels hundreds of miles before it reaches us, and uses
countless gallons of fossil fuels for transportation and electricity in
the process. A food system dependant on cheap energy is a weak link in
the long term security of our food supply.
Unless our food is grown specifically on an organic farm, it's been
grown using dangerous petrochemicals and pesticides all before we even
think about eating it. Many family farms use organic methods as a way
of caring about the long term health of their land and communities.
Most of your food dollar goes into the hands of a few large agribusiness
conglomerates, while we continue to lose family farms at a fast pace.
Buying from local farmers will help keep their farms profitable, reducing
the pressure to sell their land, and helping keep our communities and diets
diverse and healthy.
As an organic farmer, you are already working on creating a healthy planet.
Lollapalooza is hoping to help educate concert goers about the importance of
organic farming and buying local, and provide healthy, good tasting fresh
products to our concert goers. Lollapalooza is also committed to reducing
the waste produced at each show. Should you decide to join us, please limit
the disposable items (napkins, plastic utensils, cups, etc) you use with
your goods. We can also provide you with resources to obtain biodegradable
and recyclable utensils and paper products.
Please be prepared to set up just as if you were selling at your local
market. Most spaces we have will be set up for the equivalent of a 10' X
10' space. If you need it, Lollapalooza can provide you with one table for
you to use to sell your products, but we encourage you to bring your own
small tent, tables, canopies, etc. to enhance your presentation.
Although Lollapalooza is an all day and into the night event, the hours of
the organic farmers' market will be Noon 6pm daily (exact time will vary
slightly from show to show.) You will be able to set up approximately 3
hours before show begins.
The day rate to vend in Lollapalooza's organic farmer's market is $50. No
commission or percentage will be taken on goods sold.
Space is filling up quickly! Reserve your spot today!
If you would like more information on participating in Lollapalooza's
Farmers' Market, contact Claudette Silver at cmsilver@lollapalooza.com.
Lollapalooza also wants to invite both local and national nonpofits working
on issues of family farms, organic farming, and pesticide reform to table
at Lollapalooza. Please let us know if you have an organization in mind
that fits the bill.
2003 Lollapalooza Tour Schedule
(www.lollapalooza.com)
July 5 Indianapolis Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville, IN
July 8 Kansas City Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Bonner Springs, KS
July 9 St. Louis UMB Bank Pavillion Maryland Heights, MO
July 11 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheatre Milwaukee, WI
July 12 Chicago Tweeter Center Tinley Park, IL
July 13 Columbus Germain Ampitheatre Columbus, OH
July 16 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH
July 18 Detroit DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI
July 19 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pavilion Pittsburgh, PA
July 20 Cleveland Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH
July 23 Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ
July 25 Boston Tweeter Center Mansfield, MA
July 26 Syracuse Vernon Downs Raceway Vernon, NY
July 27 Philadelphia Tweeter at the Waterfront Camden, NJ
July 30 New York Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Wantagh, NY
August 1 Washington D.C. Nissan Pavilion Bristow, VA
August 3 Atlanta Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
August 5 West Palm Beach Sound Advice Ampitheatre W. Palm Beach, FL
August 8 Dallas Smirnoff Music Centre Dallas, TX
August 9 San Antonio Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Selma, TX
August 10 Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, TX
August 12 Albuquerque Journal Pavilion Albuquerque, NM
August 13 Denver Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre Greenwood Village, CO
August 15 Phoenix Cricket Pavilion Phoenix, AZ
August 16 Los Angeles Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen San Bernardino, CA
August 17 San Diego Coors Amphitheatre Chula Vista, CA
August 19 San Francisco Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
August 21 Salt Lake City USANA Amphitheater Salt Lake City, UT
August 23 Seattle White River Amphitheatre Auburn, WA
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