This is what we have been hearing from the community:
1. I high majority of the community members are restaurant and bar employees which means, they the late-Friday-night types. They have expressed feeling left out of the market because working till 2am or later means not getting adequate sleep if they were to come to the market.
2. The immediate neighbors to the market prefer to have the option to park overnight and they prefer to move their car by 8am instead of moving it by 6am, or having to find alternative parking late at night. (this is one of the biggest reasons we are wanting to change this, because we take the parking situation very seriously and want to accomidate the community as best we can)
3. So many community members would love to have more time for lunch at the market and extending the closing time by an hour and a half gives them time to come and enjoy the market and lunch instead of feeling like they are in the middle of chaos when the vendors are packing up.
4. From the vendors point of view: Some of our vendors travel for a couple hours to get here by 7am, which makes for a very early morning and farmers especially need more shut eye!
The Golden Hill Certified Farmers' Market is now into its 6th month of being open! Golden Hill and South Park and all of the surrounding Greater Golden Hill communities have been incredibly supportive. We thank you and are very excited to keep growing and adding more quality vendors to our line up.
As a new addition to the community we are keeping our ear to the ground and listening for any feedback from the community. Now that we are at the 6th month mark it is time to take some of those customer/community suggestions and try to put them in motion.
The most expressed suggestion we are hearing from the community is to change the hours of our market, to start later than 8am.
So please let us make a
joint decision by getting your input!
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