On a beautiful September morning, our group headed to the
Pioneer Park Farmer’s Market, which takes place every Saturday from June to
October. When you enter the farmers market, the smells of wonderful produce,
amazing pastries, and delicious barbeque send your nose on a trip to somewhere
heavenly. As we walked around, we witnessed amazing interactions between the
seller and customer, but none between the passing customers. We spoke with
several of the venders and found out that some of them had been coming for as
long as the farmers market had been around, eighteen years.
This
place is an open space for buyers and sellers to interact and share their
knowledge that they have gained throughout the years. This place conveys the
message of maintaining our local economy by supporting these independent
farmers and to eat healthier, specifically, organic.
This
is a very casual and open event that is open to everyone that would like to
come. There is an abundance of free samples that anyone can take. People of all
economic echelons are welcome. They have a wooden coin system that partners
with the food stamp system to allow people of all classes to have access to
fresh foods.
Our
book, City as Text, states that a
public place is “[an] area of agreement which might be expected to appear in
the interaction of a single physical reality, a common culture, and a basic
physiologic nature.” From everyone that we talked to, the image here is a very
open place that everyone can come and gain from others experiences. We definitely
gained several pieces of information and maybe even a few pounds from all the
samples and food that we took home.
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