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PBS – To Market to Market To Buy a Fat Pig DVD available

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig is a celebration of market houses, market places and farmers’ markets across the United States. Rick Sebak checks out crab cakes in Baltimore’s Lexington Market, shops with a chef in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty Farmers’ Market and attends a tomato tasting in Asheville, North Carolina. This [...]

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PPS Training Courses Open for Registration!

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC:  How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a Place Around, Oct. 18-19

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Region’s Farmers’ Markets go High-Tech

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Organic vegetables? Check.

Jams and jellies? Check.

Crafts and baked goods? Check.

E-mail orders? Better check.

Before heading out to set up their stands each week, some area farmers’ market vendors go online, looking for last-minute customer requests for fresh fruits and vegetables, cut flowers and herbs.

Many farmers’ markets now have their own Web [...]

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National Farmers Market Week: August 5-11, 2007

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 7, 2007 | Add Comment

Farmers markets are important, nationwide outlets for agricultural producers. The popularity of these markets continues to rise as more consumers discover the joys of shopping for unique ingredients sold direct from the farm, and the pleasure of buying familiar products in their freshest possible state.

More than 4,300 farmers markets across the country [...]

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PPS Takes Public Spaces Inventory of Fallon, Nevada

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2007 | Add Comment

Three urban planners from PPS visited Churchhill County and Fallon, NV, in an effort to inventory and assess local gathering places and destinations around town. 

Phil Myrick, vice president of PPS, and Elena Madison, assistant vice president, presented a list of sites they felt could be better utilized in Fallon. The team, [...]

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Winners of Jane Jacobs Medal Announced

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 28, 2007 | Add Comment

After funding the research that helped Jane Jacobs produce her landmark book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” nearly 50 yeas ago, the Rockefeller Foundation has inaugurated the first Jane Jacobs Medals.

Barry Benepe, the 79-year-old founder of Greenmarket, will receive the first medal for “lifetime leadership.” Omar Freilla, the 33-year-old founder of [...]

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Hong Kong’s Street Markets at Risk

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 19, 2007 | Add Comment

While neighborhood farmer’s markets are all the rage in the U.S., redevelopment officials in Hong Kong are making plans to raze of the city’s oldest open-air food markets — which is falling victim to gentrification.  Learn more here.

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PPS Market Grantee: Where Cultures Meet, Amid Coconuts and Cousa Squash

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 13, 2007 | Add Comment

There are 4,400 farmers markets in the United States, more than three times the number in 1994, with an estimated sales volume of $1 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture. But not one is quite like Crossroads in Takoma Park, funded in part by a grant awarded by Project for Public Spaces [...]

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Career Opportunities Available at Project for Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces is seeking to fill three positions: Executive Assistant; Associate, Marketing and Development; and Associate, Website and Database Manager.

Click here for the full job descriptions and information on how to apply.

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In Palermo, Life Vibrates in a Fading Market

By ksalay@pps.org on May 22, 2007 | Add Comment

After 700 years, a Sicilian market’s heart still beats. It’s a place where old men selling olives suddenly start singing their favorite arias.

Image (c) Chris Warde-Jones for The New York Times

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Less Green at the Farmers’ Market

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2007 | Add Comment

An op-ed from the New York Times on possible changes to the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program in the 2007 Farm Bill, and how this could impact farmers’ markets.

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Flames Sear Historic Market — Why We Care So Much

By ksalay@pps.org on May 15, 2007 | Add Comment

“Flames soared through the high roof of the 134-year-old Eastern Market as firefighters struggled to control the conflagration. By dawn on April 30, about $30 million in damage was incurred.

Immediately, public grief welled up. Throngs flocked to the site seven blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, comforting themselves and the distraught vendors of meats, [...]

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