Comments on: Jean-Talon Market, Revisited http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2009/01/04/jean-talon-market-revisited/ Daniel Roy's blog about life and videogames Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hugo http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2009/01/04/jean-talon-market-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Hugo Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:55:53 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=181#comment-209 "But I can’t shake the hand that grew these. " I dont know why, but this sentence made me laugh for 10 minutes. “But I can’t shake the hand that grew these. ”

I dont know why, but this sentence made me laugh for 10 minutes.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2009/01/04/jean-talon-market-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Daniel Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:06:57 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=181#comment-208 Tracy, I'm touched and humbled by your response. Thank you!! And I'll see you Saturday, of course. :) Tracy, I’m touched and humbled by your response. Thank you!!

And I’ll see you Saturday, of course. :)

]]> By: Tracy Caron http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2009/01/04/jean-talon-market-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Tracy Caron Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:44:57 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=181#comment-207 I would like to comment on the question: which is better? in reference to the Jean-Talon Market and Old Strathcona Farmer's Market. I can't speak for Montreal's famed Jean-Talon, but as a vendor of the OSFM, I can tell you about what I see every Saturday as we set up our booth at 6:30 am. The first thing we experience as we walk in from the -35 C Edmonton winter is the energy from the vendors who have driven over 3 hours from their farms, greenhouses and galleries to carefully and lovingly display the result of the previous weeks hard work. As we pass by, each one takes the time to send a smile with 'Good Morning..how was your week'? As the morning progress, our focus strays from setting up to the anticipation of our first customer of the day 'Jack' who stops for a brief chat and often leaves his shopping bags with us for safe keeping as he rounds up the last few items. We watch the friendly German vendor struggle with the bad hip after driving 2.5 hours and then standing for another 8 for the last 20 years to sell his fresh organic brown eggs and hand made perogies. We over hear our neighbour Sheri who sells had crafted pottery chatting with the other Potter Thanking them for letting her use their kiln when hers broke down the previous week. We step into help vendors who need assistance at their booth and never refuse when asked to. OSFM is about community and people. We see each other 4 days a month but we are like one huge extended family of strangers. But we could not do it without our customers...the people we consider our friends. We (vendors) look forward to seeing our regular 'friends' as each hour passes and worrying about them when they don't appear at their usually time or if they miss the Market that day. We remember their names and what they buy or how they like it prepared. It is people like Daniel who encourage and inspire us to feed our chickens, pet our cattle, water the tomatoes, through our clay and turn on the coffee roaster each and every week regardless of the weather or how fatigued we are. We look forward to his return not for his patronage but for his passion. He gets it!!! I would like to comment on the question: which is better? in reference to the Jean-Talon Market and Old Strathcona Farmer’s Market.
I can’t speak for Montreal’s famed Jean-Talon, but as a vendor of the OSFM, I can tell you about what I see every Saturday as we set up our booth at 6:30 am.
The first thing we experience as we walk in from the -35 C Edmonton winter is the energy from the vendors who have driven over 3 hours from their farms, greenhouses and galleries to carefully and lovingly display the result of the previous weeks hard work. As we pass by, each one takes the time to send a smile with ‘Good Morning..how was your week’?

As the morning progress, our focus strays from setting up to the anticipation of our first customer of the day ‘Jack’ who stops for a brief chat and often leaves his shopping bags with us for safe keeping as he rounds up the last few items.

We watch the friendly German vendor struggle with the bad hip after driving 2.5 hours and then standing for another 8 for the last 20 years to sell his fresh organic brown eggs and hand made perogies.

We over hear our neighbour Sheri who sells had crafted pottery chatting with the other Potter Thanking them for letting her use their kiln when hers broke down the previous week.

We step into help vendors who need assistance at their booth and never refuse when asked to.

OSFM is about community and people. We see each other 4 days a month but we are like one huge extended family of strangers. But we could not do it without our customers…the people we consider our friends.

We (vendors) look forward to seeing our regular ‘friends’ as each hour passes and worrying about them when they don’t appear at their usually time or if they miss the Market that day. We remember their names and what they buy or how they like it prepared.

It is people like Daniel who encourage and inspire us to feed our chickens, pet our cattle, water the tomatoes, through our clay and turn on the coffee roaster each and every week regardless of the weather or how fatigued we are.

We look forward to his return not for his patronage but for his passion.

He gets it!!!

]]> By: Jesse http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/2009/01/04/jean-talon-market-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Jesse Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:58:23 +0000 http://www.alt-shift.com/blog/?p=181#comment-206 So most important question : Which is better? ;) So most important question : Which is better? ;)

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