Greenmarket Activates Community Life
Posted by Glenn on July 8, 2006 - 1:03pm in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: community, greenmarkets, jessica lappin, scott stringer, social capital, upper east side [list all tags]

Today was a good day for local produce and community development. The new greenmarket at St. Stephen's church brought together all the local elected officials in including Councilmember Jessica Lappin and Borough President Scott Stringer as well as the Father Angelo of St. Stephen (pictured above) and many folks from the local community board.
The Upper Green Side has a quick post about it up. It was great to see so many people talking, sharing recipes, bringing their dogs and children with them to shop.
And the crowds were bigger than expected because of the big outreach effort we did over the past two weeks.





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