The Bethlehem Center sets the Grand Opening of its Urban Farm & Market Saturday, July 25th

The Bethlehem Center sets the Grand Opening of its Urban Farm & Market Saturday, July 25th

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It's just welcome back everyone that market and farm located in south chattanooga then joining us now as gloriana both the director of community outreach at the back and said our good morning gloria good morning kay are you doing today and get muc for joining us this morning.

I'm really excited about this project.

Tell us more about the armor.

The farm and market is going on downtown is called the alton park community in urban farm in margate.

It is a new initiative that were really excited to kick the purpose is to create a communal gathering and around food.

It also fosters economic empowerment fire community and access to different resources because the press were to be affordable and available to the lab fresh fruits and vegetables in the summertime going to tell a mountain and the things that ar available when i will have everything ranging from collard we have watermelon that are growing up with will be large enough for our grand opening on the 20 we have lots of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lactic tomatoe, green tomatoes that you like to make a green tomatoes like so many of us do we have flowers that are available with an organization that keeps growth last week during our stuff open we had blackberries and blueberries and catchy arms. yo may have to a possibilities for fresh fruits and best with her and even herself.

Staple items rice and oatmeal and cereal and pasta and spaghetti equipped with basil from the garments that you can make a full meal.

You're making me hungry this morning gloria starring a little bit about how you got on the start, and why do you think it' was so important in our community so we start to have the conversation about a year and a half ago we had two different initiatives at the center that were really successful.

We had a small day were community rape would come out and get a small vendor fee and sell items ranging from iro today becoming to eliminate tim and content community has continued to ask and then the same time or talking with our community partners in learning that i market idea would be that our community would appreciate and we the garden space that we brought on a new employee and we have a partnership with the jilted band who has a phenomenal collective that helps hire urba gardening and it just grew from the conversations are happening out is different silos and when kobe hit our plan prior to that was to use our car and teaching tool kit and then when kobe he kind possibilities explode in and we added some additional garden beds and we decided to use it to create certain stability for community because we didn't know what was coming.

What would be happening with it and i'm how much gig will be able to get out and we also didn't know at the time and hav a half kids in our building so smart what a little bit about some of the guidelines with the coronavirus right now and when they announce when management t come out to purchase many of these items a little bit about the social distancing, and the mass requirement yes so we will have some thinking and requiring everyone that walks into the market awareness, especially fo the mayor's mandate and all of our vendors will also be wearin clear assistant.

This we have will have arrows on the ground, pointing people in the direction they should go just like a regular supermarket on individuals of the advice to be no more than 2 to 3 and 10.

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They said that vendors, and then will also be asking our vendors to kindly help to encourage and enforce as long as everyone they want to keep our seniors.

They can be shopping at the market will keep our little and think like you vendors safe and at that were just trying to do our part.

So much for joining us this morning again.

Ethics want to check it out.

Thursday july the 20 fifth grand opening down there forward to having you the 20 fifth at 200 w.

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