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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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