I miss the dogs at Moscow Farmers Market. Next to the tiny tots, they were one of the most fun parts. Now that its on Main St., it is not only a lot more walking and much harder (or even impossible, in some cases, like my roommates) for very elderly and walking disabled people who cant walk far, but it is also a whole lot more boring without the dogs. And it pretty much destroyed the community/nonprofit row, too, except for a very few holdouts, so there is less community feel and it is more just another commercial event. I go because I have a commitment to local and a couple of close-friend growers I dont get to see much otherwise (not that they can spare more than a few seconds to chat, with the fascist push to clear the vendors out like garbage the moment the market is over), but I sure dont look forward to it like I used to. Its never felt like a real farmers market since they started the insane push to ditch the pickup trucks. I wish Moscow had a real farmers market. It used to. I fight tears sometimes just pulling into the parking lot where the market should be, nice and compact and easy to find the produce, with dogs and trucks like a farmers market should have, and disabled parking literally just a few steps from the beginning of the produce. Liz could not go even once last year, and I am seeing fewer very elderly people. I miss that, too I gave it a year, and I have not gotten used to it at all. I do not see why they cant at least put the produce in the middle so it would not be a six block walk to find the produce and get back to where you started (plus another block or two each way to get to and from parking, none of which is close). If anything, being forced to walk by all the crafts every week is going to make me more resentful and less likely to even stop and look let alone buy them. This crazy arrangement has turned most of them into annoyances that are in the way of finding what I really came for, especially if I am running late. It all makes me very sad sometimes. :( If you like it on Main, fine. You dont need to tell me about it. Obviously some people like it for whatever reasons, none of which are going to make it possible for Liz to go to market. I have a right to my opinion too, and my opinion is that accessibility to as many people as possible should be paramount at this type of regular community event,, which is not what is happening. It doesnt matter how many parking places on 4th you mark disabled every Saturday, they are all a block away from where anything much is happening, and then its the six block round trip if you want to see it all, making a total of at least eight blocks. For some people that might as well be fifty miles. Some people only have two or three blocks in them. They could shop at the old market, and now they cant shop at this one. But then Moscow never has exactly been a community that placed enough value on accessibility, and this is certainly continuing in that tradition. :/
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 02:23:23 +0000
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