Vote For Our Farmers Market

Calling all Calico Rock food lovers!

LocalHarvest has partnered with Care2 to create a summer-long contest called, "Love Your Farmers Market." Here's how it works: everyone is invited to cast one vote for their favorite farmers market. Voting registers our farmers market for weekly $250 prize drawings, and receiving a lot of votes will win one lucky market the top prize of $5,000. To encourage a "get out the vote" effort, there are also prizes for the top recruiters - people who ask their friends to vote. So spread the word!

When you vote you can write a short review of our farmers market, which you can choose to have posted on the LocalHarvest website. Here's what I wrote:

"Our little hideaway river town may not show up on many maps, but the people here uphold a strong tradition of growing their own food and sharing it with their neighbors. At the Calico Rock Market, growers get to connect with the public and with each other. Good food is bought and sold, gardening secrets are shared, and smiles are given for free. Our market nourishes our whole community!"

CAST YOUR VOTE HERE:

"We love farmers markets for all these reasons, and because we think they are important. In a world of anonymous food, it does a body good to stand across a table loaded down with vegetables, and look at the face of the person's whose labor brought this food into being. This person, those hands, that strong back all worked the soil on a particular farm near here, under sun and rain to grow this food. This food that we will take home, prepare, and feed to our families for their nourishment. For me it's nothing less than this: shopping at the farmers market can bring your heart back to your food." ~ Erin Barnett, Director of LocalHarvest