Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL

I am going to share with you my PERSONAL opinion and story with Farmers and Green markets , without naming them because they know who they are.

I have applied  in the past 10 years to display at four Green and Farmer markets in my area and all ended up in nowhere after few times of trials.As an urban farmer growing radishes and herbs and greens imagine how much money you need to pay in order to have a stand at the market?One Farmer market owner asked for 150 $ per month for the four Saturdays of display and also wanted insurance policy that costs like 600 $ per the SIX months of growing and market season.How much do you pay for a bunch of radishes?Would that money pay the bill of a small urban farmer to the BIG MONEY market owner- or manager- who enjoys political cover beach umbrella and a fat chair to support his fat ...wallet ?Common!

I went to commissioners and asked for help because the owner is being given FREE usage of the city parking location without paying any rent and guess what...No body responded to offer help except one who offered fifty bucks from her own pocket! ..I am sick of the RACIAL discremination and abuse of small farmers at Farmers markets.I am sick of the way the local governments do to help such owners who only try to get rich by just selling to tourists and bringing in Jewellry venders and others non-farmers, but mostly merchants ,to the market as vendors.They are eroding the marketing visibility to small farmers and some one needs to stop them.

I was rejected from one Green market because the manager  who works for the X-city did not like my national origin and religion.Yes, there is so much discremination and abuse and slavery going on to farmers , but most of the time it is not reported because of the fear factor and retaliation .No more.Farmers wake up and speak up.I am glad that I am not the only one to do so, I am happy to hear another farmer from another state who did just that and I felt I need to speak up myself because I am struggl;ing with the same problem at Farmer/Green market.I approached commisioners in my area who say they are green and support the environment and asked them to interfer and set up a FREE sstreet market for farmers and people who lost their jobsd and have acraft to market their work and make a few bucks to pay the bills...Guess what ..Hello! Nobody home...I am glad we have local harvest to vent .I will be even more glad if local harvest kick out those fake farmer /green markets from their web which advocates the moto REAL FARMERS...and those markets are not REAL Farmers markets but rather REAL merchant markets.So help us God,Amen!