Correction to my last sentence. That's one painless way to start to work together as a community!!
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:56:47 +0000
Subject: Re: [ward5] Hypocrites and Crypto Racism
Hello, The Edgewood Farmer's market is about more than having a farmer's market. It was more about providing fresh fruits and veggies to a community that lost its grocery store. It is also open to all of Ward5 and the entire city.
Many seniors in the Edgewood community don't have cars, and there is no shuttle bus to get them over the bridge to the Giant. They also can not walk long distances pushing or carrying heavy bags of groceries.
I was involved in the planning and a main concern was to provide healthy food choices and to help avoid a food desert in that area. From day one, it has been about helping to improve the quality of life for folk in the Ward 5 community. Hazel and others a doing a great job. I am sure each year it will get better.
If you stop by ask for Mike he actually runs the market every Saturday morning. Oh, check out the big juicy peaches. They make great peach cobbler if you don't eat most of them before finishing recipe!
Hey, if anyone knows of resources, farmers or vendors that need more places to distribute their food or goods, why not be a good neighbor and share that information with folk getting the Edgewood Farmer's market rolling. That's one painless way to start to collectively work together as a community. Alice
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:55:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [ward5] Hypocrites and Crypto Racism
Agreed. I don't know the reasons for the remark but it seemed mean-spirited. Hazel and team should be commended for trying so hard. It isn't easy and is being set up in an area where the residents may not be used to a farmers market. The market might not get the advertisement it needs and may not be as visible where it is. But it is an effort to do something.
I am speaking specifially about the comments made about the nascent farmer's market being developed. Hazel Thoma is working diligently to create a farmers market, This is not an easy task. It took the Brookland Market a long time to get it together. I know because I used to play drums there when it was at Col Brooks Mansion. Only in the last year or so has it really taken off. Persistence is a key and Hazel has that for sure. Instead of supporting her, Allison Stewart asked a rhetorical and pointedly snide question, implying that Hazel's new farmers' market was too small and lacking resources!
I don't know about you folks but I think that is an obvious insult to Hazel and to this community in general ... there will no doubt be loud cries of ... Oh, no, I just wanted to know who would be there this week! Ms. Stewart's comment is an obvious and obnoxious attempt at sarcasm, an attempt to belittle the efforts a long time community activist and exemplary citizen who is trying to improve the quality of life in this community! AND ...it ain't right!
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Sent: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 4:23 am
Subject: [ward5] Hypocrites and Crypto Racism
Citizen's of Ward Five
It is my belief that this Yahoo Group needs to perform a deep and comprehensive examination of conscience (A uniquely Catholic concept). We should look into our collective hearts and ask ourselves, are we part of the solution or part of the problem? We need to consider the entire Ward 5 community and not just Edgewood, or Brookland or, whatever! We need to realize accept and yes, celebrate the cultural and social differences that are the basis of a plural culture such as we are blessed to have here in Washington DC. We need to come together ... not pull apart. People in Brookland need to be concerned about the people in close proximity to McMillan and the McMillan folks need to care for what happens to the resident adjacent to 901 Monroe.
The last few years have been fraught with strife and conflict. Many of us opted for development at any cost. Anyone who used the term, "Smart Development," was branded a reactionary. As a result the developers and the large land owners (CUA, The Paulists) have been able to abrogate almost every agreement made in their one-sided, takeover of the center of Brookland. CUA was allowed to "warehouse," and tear down decent housing and sit on it for years waiting for this moment to "cash in." All of the religious orders who were given property here in Brookland are now getting ready to follow their lead. The result will most likely be devastating to this community.
The divide between the long time largely African American community and the new, largely white, upward mobile young marrieds and others is growing and becoming very uncomfortable. This is especially evident in some of the rhetoric used on this List serve here in Ward 5. I am speaking specifially about the comments made about the nascent farmer's market being developed. Hazel Thoma is working diligently to create a farmers market, This is not an easy task. It took the Brookland Market a long time to get it together. I know because I used to play drums there when it was at Col Brooks Mansion. Only in the last year or so has it really taken off. Persistence is a key and Hazel has that for sure. Instead of supporting her, Allison Stewart asked a rhetorical and pointedly snide question, implying that Hazel's new farmers' market was too small and lacking resources!
I don't know about you folks but I think that is an obvious insult to Hazel and to this community in general ... there will no doubt be loud cries of ... Oh, no, I just wanted to know who would be there this week! Ms. Stewart's comment is an obvious and obnoxious attempt at sarcasm, an attempt to belittle the efforts a long time community activist and exemplary citizen who is trying to improve the quality of life in this community! AND ...it ain't right!
I'm signing off for now, but I'm not done!
I'll be back!
Jerry in Indignation
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