
MARKET DAY NEWS
Spring, 2008
Welcome to the Market Day Guides with information about farmers
markets, flea markets, arts and crafts shows, trade
days, and pick-your-own fruit... around Wimberley and well beyond the Hill Country
area (for all you valued visitors from other
parts).
Spring is the time to start market day
searches in earnest, with some markets that
close for the winter now running full steam
ahead and the fabulous produce available this
time of year in the farmers markets. It's a
great time to shop al fresco.
And the Market
Vendors
and Products Guide is the first place to look
for information about that special find you
meant to go back to get someday, or just to
browse through to visit vendors. Many of the
vendors also have online shopping features,
making it easy and convenient to order
online.
Whether you're a first-time visitor or have
been with us from the first day of the site, a
decade ago, you know by now that a primary
mission of VisitWimberley.com is environmental responsibility. We see this
expanded resource as
another way to provide tools to make a
significant difference in individual lives and,
in small increments, the health of our ever more
challenged planet. Selective shopping at a local flea market can be a way to
recycle and have fun, too.
The new Market Day guides include extra
tools, more
than just markets. For instance, if you're like
us, you'd also like to know just how much fossil
fuel will be required to get to these
tantalizing destinations. With every price hike,
it's becoming less and less economical to drive
some distance in the hope of a bargain at the
end of the journey.
This is why we've added tools like links to a
mileage calculator and "Your
MPG."
Over the next year, we also anticipate adding
many more resources and markets to broaden your
choices.
Eat locally? For just some of the good
reasons why this is the best idea ever for
feeding ourselves, check out Why
Eat Locally Grown Foods. Then
download the scorecard
to keep track of how close you can come to the
goals of the challenge.
If you'd like to add your market or product to the list,
you are invited to submit
your listing for the new guide.
Unlike restrictions on the other guides at
VisitWimberley.com limiting listings to
businesses and organizations in the immediate
area, the geographical limitation for markets
and market vendors is expanded to include the continental U.S. We'd like to help
get the word out about good options anywhere in
the country. Listings will be considered for publication here if
we can determine they fit the guidelines; any
superlative resource has potential to make the
list.
If you're a vendor or organization who'd like
a Link Ad on the Vendor & Product guide, please use this form
to submit your listing request. All listings, links and resources in this guide are
selected to offer information that can help us all,
wherever we may live, to eat locally, use renewable
resources,
recycle, and move toward a greener, more sustainable way
of life.
Incidentally, we haven't forgotten about our
good friends at Wimberley
Market Days. The second largest
(non-farmers) market
in Texas happens here the first Saturday of most
months, made possible by volunteers from the Wimberley
Lions Club. Wimberley Market Days are
held from spring through December. For year
round shopping, visit the wonderful
shops in Wimberley.
Whether you're a vendor, a shopper, a concerned
citizen of the earth, or all of the above, welcome to
Market Days!
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