Comments on: Kitchen Table Talks: Urban Homesteading in SF on 1/19

By: A Season of Abundance - Santa Cruz Local Foods

A Season of Abundance - Santa Cruz Local Foods — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:47:38 +0000

[...] note: Heidi will speak about her chickens and more tomorrow night at the Kitchen Table Talks on urban homesteading, which is SOLD [...]

By: Civil Eats » Blog Archive » A Season of Abundance

Civil Eats » Blog Archive » A Season of Abundance — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:40:30 +0000

[...] note: Heidi will speak about her chickens and more tomorrow night at the Kitchen Table Talks on urban homesteading, which is SOLD OUT! AKPC_IDS += "6099,"; Share and [...]

By: Green foodie events this January | Nourish The Spirit

Green foodie events this January | Nourish The Spirit — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:43:30 +0000

[...] a couple of great conscious foodie events close to my home. One is this Tuesday, January 19th when Kitchen Table Talks kicks off the new year with a gathering on urban homesteading. Though food justice guru Will [...]

By: Tim Forrest

Tim Forrest — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:45:09 +0000

The success and growth of the direct to consumer ‘farmers markets’ actually promotes the category of produce and educates consumers on incorporating fresh fruit and vegetables as part of their diet. The trips to the farmers market are often fun, exciting, educational, entertaining, and tasty! This growth is directly supporting the growth of produce sales in the United States via traditional retailers for a myriad of reasons.
A solid group of American consumers are seeking diversion and entertainment when visiting the ‘farmers markets.’ Americans enjoy farm direct and purchase it at times but they also have lives to lead and need the ability to purchase their food quickly, efficiently, when they want, and convenient for their drive home not wanting to drive extra miles or minutes. Already, I am seeing traditional retailers take this information and apply it their produce sections by having similar fun, entertaining, events inside grocery stores.
The ‘farmers market’ is like a big sampling and learning event that is assisting with the teaching and sharing the beauty of produce. These consumers then pick up more produce on their next grocery store shopping trip. Look at the growth of produce sales in this nation and you will see an extra $5 billion in just the last few years alone and Americans are spending 10% more of their food dollar on produce.
The ‘farmers markets’ are doing a great service for the American food system and Americans diets with traditional grocery stores enjoying much of the benefit. In the future, you will be seeing more of the success marketing tactics of ‘farmers markets’ incorporated into traditional stores.