09-06-2016, 06:11 AM
This is lost on PW, but the point is a Farmer's Market is supposed to be for Farmers, doh. All this weepy old woman concern for "native Hawaiian farmers" starts making me vomit after awhile. The Hilo Farmer's Market has managed to mostly stay true to its word but the Maku'u and Pahoa "Farmer's Markets" are CRAFT FAIRS, with trinkets, dust collectors, prepared food tables.
Do you need pictures? Go to Maku'u and Pahoa "Farmer's Markets" and take photos of every table/booth that is trinkets, crystals, knife collections, dust collectors, nik-nak, and take a photo of the person there. It is going to be a white face. Native Hawaiians do not sell mood crystals and all the other tourist-scam useless junk. There are some prepared food tables with native Hawaiians. Most of the real farmers are Thai or Filipino.
The suggestion for a Produce-Only Saturday Morning Actual Farmer's Market was to alleviate this somewhat dictatorial condition among some people in Puna that everything has to have an element of zaniness surrounding it. Also, a Saturday morning Produce-Only would make some look a little less hypocritical of being weepy self-righteousness concerned for Native Hawaiian farmers. A Saturday Produce-Only would actually support this Agriculture Initiative that has been babbled about for over 4 years. It is only for local farmers, so any competition to the Hilo Saturday market is irrelevant. That way, local farmers can get their crops prepared Friday, sell on Saturday morning 7-12, bring what's unsold back to the Sunday market. It is two trips to the market in two days but it isn't like 100 years ago when Real Local Farmers were taking wagons and crossing the Wailuku to the real Hilo farmer's Market.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
Do you need pictures? Go to Maku'u and Pahoa "Farmer's Markets" and take photos of every table/booth that is trinkets, crystals, knife collections, dust collectors, nik-nak, and take a photo of the person there. It is going to be a white face. Native Hawaiians do not sell mood crystals and all the other tourist-scam useless junk. There are some prepared food tables with native Hawaiians. Most of the real farmers are Thai or Filipino.
The suggestion for a Produce-Only Saturday Morning Actual Farmer's Market was to alleviate this somewhat dictatorial condition among some people in Puna that everything has to have an element of zaniness surrounding it. Also, a Saturday morning Produce-Only would make some look a little less hypocritical of being weepy self-righteousness concerned for Native Hawaiian farmers. A Saturday Produce-Only would actually support this Agriculture Initiative that has been babbled about for over 4 years. It is only for local farmers, so any competition to the Hilo Saturday market is irrelevant. That way, local farmers can get their crops prepared Friday, sell on Saturday morning 7-12, bring what's unsold back to the Sunday market. It is two trips to the market in two days but it isn't like 100 years ago when Real Local Farmers were taking wagons and crossing the Wailuku to the real Hilo farmer's Market.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*