by Digger Barr
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The enthusiasm poured from her heart as she proudly corrected me. “I don’t like them, ” she responded.
“I don’t like them, I LOVE them! ”
She was talking about rocks.
The scene was on the opening day of a new Farmers market and my booth had a display of orgonites and crystal points and towers.
This young lady of about 8 years old came pushing through the overwhelming crowd into my booth and stood bathing in the stones’ energy.
I smiled at her and said, “I like it that you like rocks”.
She acknowledged my presence, by turning, looking directly into my eyes and metamorphosed my perspective with her announcement..
Her enthusiasm was effortless and I am fully on board with her.
The whole day was filled with moments like this. Each person who stepped out of the fray and came into my area brought with them a unique and yet communal energetic connection.
This is exactly the vibe a farmers market carries with it. But this Grand opening was so much bigger than just another day at a market.
Months and maybe years in the planning, this was the unveiling of a market that is ahead of its time while simultaneously being long overdue.
It is an indoor outdoor, year round teaching kitchen and business incubator. This facility is designed to help improve our future.
This concept is about sharing the gifts and knowledge in an exchange of experience as well as promoting and supporting local micro businesses.
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I am grateful beyond words for everyone who made this concept a reality.
After months, years, of hard work this innovative idea was brought into fruition by a group of very driven and compassionate ladies.
I say compassion because in their efforts to bring the cutting edge program together they had to bring dinosaurs like myself into the modern way of running community commerce.
Don’t worry, I know that the learning curve happens both ways and with all parties.
This has been a learning experience for us all.
The basic premise of this market as a teaching environment took hold from its very inception
Nothing displays that connection between the old and the new with more love than that bright young face beaming in front of a crystal display.
She didn’t know or care about all of the hard work it took to bring the market to this opening day.
She might not know how old the rocks are or how many hands or generations went into creating the displayed items.
She only knew that she found what she loved and gave willingly and unconditionally in her appreciation of the moment.
There were many such interactions that warmed the heart.
This was a day of people connecting in the most marvelous way. This is a glimpse of our future and how the people want to live. The overwhelming response from the public shows us that people are hungry for this grassroots, homegrown way of living. They want to give their hard earned money to local producers. They want to know where their food comes from. They want to support artists, and artisans that put their all into a product be it candles, lotion, baked goods, a hot lunch or cool green plants for the garden. When you have so much love flowing into the products, the community reciprocates. When you have a venue such as this that gives the community opportunity to come together, that community overwhelmingly said yes.
And the children thrive in this environment.
For comparison let me invoke the image of a supermarket.
Can you see two kids in tow? One in a cart while the other hangs on to the side.
You know the story. Kids are cranky making it difficult for the parent.
The parent gets stern, the kids cry.
Chaos.
Across from me was a kids booth.
The market had created a kids station with dirt, sand, houses, a play kitchen. All of the fun stuff.
And the kids joined in with each other, presumably strangers and engaged with focus and happiness.
The only mishap was when a toddler wanted to carry off one of the houses and the parent had to convince them to put it back.
Each child was given a scavenger hunt page and a crayon.
Now off to do the shopping with the adults, boredom problem not just solved, inverted.
Metamorphosed.
Speaking of families, let’s not forget the vendors. Each vendor was a family from the community.
Everyone that put their heart into their product then gave in an all out effort to serve thousands that day.
Yes, the turn out for a small market was in the thousands.
And next to me, a miracle of all miracles was a brand new six day old baby as her mother sold baked goods while she stayed oblivious to it all in her bassinet.
The mom sold out of her cinnamon rolls like it was just another day, baby and all.
Down the way a gentleman helped his wife fulfill her ambition as a chef.
Across from them a juice stand that makes the best fresh juice that I have ever tasted.
From inside the building another vendor, reaching out, asking questions as their booth will be attending next week.
We all engaged with each other as we bridged any gaps and became stronger at the core of this evolving community.
This is where the world meets. At the market.
No matter where you go. No matter what country. No matter who the people are. This is the heart of a community.
When you have community and when you have the people who create the opportunity for community to come together, you have the future.
In the case of this market, this is the future. Not just in how it operates and what it provides but in the fact that it connects the people to each other.
And that is Gold!
We are blessed in so many ways.
Digger25