Food Security Carnival Discussion Post.

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Solicit or offer ideas, cheer each other on, ask for or offer data or resources, team up and do a group-authored post or a mini-carnival cluster of posts, find a beta, be a beta ...

I would like to say: I am not at all worried about avoiding duplication, and suggest that nobody else be either.

If eight people do posts on How To Cook Eggs, they will all be different, they will all be right and useful, and each of them will be somebody's absolute most useful and favourite post of the whole carnival.

Carry on!

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When we were travelling in the UK in 2007 - and a) I'm sure I was easily spotted as a backpacker from a mile away, plus b) Being a traveller I only ever went to each market once, and c) only MOST of the people who are pro-hosteller are also local pro-poor folks just trying to get by - all of which may have made a BIG difference over what works for people who are trying to do the market near them on a budget, note,

When I was going to farmer's markets in [primarily the SW of] England, arriving 30 minutes from closing time would lead to vendors giving me piles and bag and loads and scads of beautiful ripe fresh produce for a 1 pound coin - like they'd start at double the posted amount for price and then often keep going - usually to the tune of "here, this is grand now but it won't keep until next market day, take it back and share it out". Which I would always do as I couldn't carry it on with me.

Downside: no predictability. You might get only fruit, or only veg.

Also, many vendors I have talked to at farmer's markets say they really wish they could do more hours or more markets, IF they could get the booth coverage. Maybe they're making polite excuses to avoid telling me they don't like teh market I'm asking them about and clearly do like and so don't want to do that one. Or possibly there are more booth-running-in-exchange-for-produce opportunities available than it looks like there are.