Yesterday was the first day for the outdoor Farmer's Market. Even though it rained for most of the time it was great to be outside again. Started out slow but then the pace picked up. By 10 a.m. the crowds were out in full force. Unfortunately a fairly large portion of the field had to be fenced off due to vandals driving their vehicle through the field and tearing it up the week or two before ! This has happened more than once and now the district is finally going to put a chain link fence and gate across both openings into the field. Well with any luck at all a feasability study has now been completed and the city of Courtenay has given the Farmer's Market the go ahead to start a building fund to put a permanent structure onto the Farquarson Farm lands in the middle of the city! This is such great news for us as a market. We may finally have a permanent site that will be maintained by the city. We hope to have an education centre etc. attached to the venue as well. For now we can dream big and go from there. Anyway today is a nicer (weather )day and I am off to Tofino for a few days (lucky me ) to tandem teach a portion of the Master Organic Land Care program. I am very excited about this and I get to see my darling daughter to boot !
