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LAS VEGAS FARMER'S MARKET 2009
Gardens Park
Co-sponsored by
The Summerlin Council
Tuesdays from 4pm - 8pm
Bruce Trent Park
Co-sponsored by
The City of Las Vegas
Wednesdays from 4pm - 8pm
Fremont
Co-Sponsored by
Fremont East District
Fridays 4pm - 8pm
Henderson Farmer's Market
240 Water Street Henderson
NV 89015 THURSDAY 9am - 2pm
Boulder City
Bicentennial Park Colorado & Utah Streets
Boulder City, NV 89005
Admittedly, it will be subsistence at a higher level -- through the internet, computerization, and technology, each of us will have the capacity to do things for ourselves that are beyond the imagination of today's impoverished subsistence farmers. But, relative to those who own all of the means of production, a few entertainers (be they basketball players, lecturers, moviestars, or mega-church leaders), and a few laborers (building the machines, computers, the information infrastructure and doing basic and applied research), we will all be poor. Perhaps only relatively and perhaps only in material terms. But poor, living at a subsistence level, consuming food from our own gardens, building our own houses, wearing clothes for function not fashion, educating our own children through the internet, capturing essential power through distributed energy, and buying very little of goods that are bound to be too expensive for most -- probably just computers. It won't necessarily be bad. Perhaps we can refocus on relationships, family, community, art, music, literature, and life, rather than define ourselves in terms of our job and our things. Perhaps we can refocus on spirituality instead of materialism. Who knows? Maybe the new society won't be such a bad thing after all -- at least if we insist that the few who have the privilege of production have a responsibility to share the wealth with the many.
Excerpt from article "The New Subsistence"
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/south_america/
Are you a merchant utilizing the need of society for the necessities of life, for monopoly and exorbitant profit? Or a sincere, hard-working and diligent man facilitating the exchange between the weaver and the farmer? Are you charging a reasonable profit as a middleman between supply and demand?
If you are the first, then you are a criminal whether you live in a palace or a prison. If you are the second, then you are a charitable man whether you are thanked or denounced by people.
Excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's "The New Frontier" or also translated as "The New Deal"
In the New Subsistence of our Economy, financial and moral, we must learn as Americans and as a Human Race that spans the Globe, that the time has come to go back to the Basics. Technology has come so far that libraries can be reached with the touch of your fingertips. In the New Millenium, we can see that the Nuclear family is not what it was 50 years ago. People have become compartamentalized into virtual worlds. The end result being a breakdown in community. Due to Corporations being supported over the small business man, we have seen them go into extinction, or have we? Change is inevitable, but we have the opportunity to redefine ourselves, as well as our communities. These are opportunities start at the most basic level. Food, Youth, Health, and Education. With communities supporting Food Corporations like Smiths, Albertsons, Vons, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Sams Club, Costco and the like, our communities have forgotten our local Farmers as well as keeping Money within the Local Economy.
