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Help Fairfield Iowa Farmer’s Market Win $5,000

by Heather Miller on 22 June 2009
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Care2.com, the popular web destination for all things green living, animal welfare,  human rights and more, has partnered with the Local Harvest directory website of all local farms, farmers markets and other local food sources, to sponsor a contest for Farmer’s Markets!  The winning market gets $5,000 and every week a market is drawn at random to win $250.

The Fairfield Farmer’s Market is in the running with 58 votes so far.  I’m sure there are quite a lot of improvements the Farmer’s Market could make with that $5,000 if they won.  The link below should take you to the voting page where you enter some basic info and a comment about why you love the Farmer’s Market.  (You can comment anonymously if you wish.)  It only takes a minute, and every vote counts!  Plus it’s neat to see what everyone else has been saying about the Farmer’s Market.

http://www.care2.com/farmersmarket/4150/?refer=20169.13.1245536068.070435

If for some reason the link doesn’t work either by clicking or copy and paste, you can always go to the home page and look up the Fairfield Farmer’s Market.

After you’ve voted – spread the news!  The voting site has some easy buttons to post links back to the contest to Facebook, Twitter, etc.  At the time of this writing, the leading market is Durham, NC with 260 votes, so we’ve got a ways to go to catch up!

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Heather Miller - who has written 14 articles on Fairfield Voice.

A resident of Fairfield for over 25 years, Heather is an active cheerleader for the things she loves about small-town life: from local produce and restaurants to entertainment and art. A self professed music junkie, internet geek and sometimes poet, Heather hosts the Lyrical Venus Radio Hour every Tuesday from 9-10am on Fairfield's grassroots community station KRUU. She blogs about the female singer-songwriters featured on the show at LyricalVenus.com.

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4 Responses to “Help Fairfield Iowa Farmer’s Market Win $5,000”

  1. Will Merydith says:
    June 22, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    I just added vote 79.

  2. Will Merydith says:
    June 29, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    Looks like they awarded the first winner:

    "Congratulations to Forsyth Farmers' Market in Savannah, GA, the first winner of our weekly $250 prize in Care2 and LocalHarvest's Love Your Farmers Market contest! The Forsyth Farmers' Market runs every Saturday and features regionally grown, fresh food and food products sold by the producers. The Forsyth Farmers' Market is organized by the Savannah Local Food Collaborative, whose mission is to increase food access for all of Savannah."

  3. Heather Miller says:
    June 29, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    We're at 120 votes, here are the top five so far:

    * Durham Farmers Market
    Durham, NC
    1025 votes
    *Carrboro Farmers' Market
    Carrboro, NC
    933 votes
    *Flint Farmers' Market
    Flint, MI
    882 votes
    *
    Carolina First Saturday Market
    Greenville, SC
    613 votes
    *Athens Farmers Market
    Athens, OH
    435 votes

  4. Heather Miller says:
    June 29, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    We're at 120 votes, here are the top five so far:

    * Durham Farmers Market
    Durham, NC
    1025 votes
    *Carrboro Farmers' Market
    Carrboro, NC
    933 votes
    *Flint Farmers' Market
    Flint, MI
    882 votes
    * Carolina First Saturday Market
    Greenville, SC
    613 votes
    *Athens Farmers Market
    Athens, OH
    435 votes

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