The Steering Committee has met twice to work on plans for the season.

Andrew Conner (DTH), Charlotte Smith(Appleseed Farm/Pour-a-Pie), Luke Anderson,Cathy Cloud (Johnson Branch), Candace Hack (White Violet Center), and Jim Luzar (Purdue Extension) and Andrea Lau (L&A Family Farm) make up the committee.

We will have a paid Market Master this year, and expect to have that person identified and hired in the next few weeks.

We'll have THREE meetings for call-out, recruitment, and vendor info:

The first is on Saturday, April 25 at 8 am, at Clabber Girl in the Bake Shop.

Then at the Vigo County Public Library at noon on Monday, April 27 and at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 pm.

New (or veteran) vendors need attend only one meeting.

I've begun booking musical entertainment/performances for the market. Those have been popular in the past, but infrequent. Our goal is to have music every week. If you have a name to suggest, or want tovolunteer - give me call or drop an e-mail.

Our market will move another step toward being "producer only" this year. Our focus has been on providing produce grown by our own vendors - so that customers can keep a close connection to their food source - but we have allowed limited re-sale. The intention was to satisfy customer expectations for in-season produce that our own growers didn't happen to have.

This year - we will further restrict resale, by requiring that every item have a standard 8 1/2 x 11 inch laminated sign (provided by the market) to prominently identify the produce as resale - along with the name and location of the grower. Vendors will have ask the Market Master a week in advance, and any self-grown produce offered by a vendor will be given first priority before we allow the re-sale item to be brought to the market.