Holstein Farmers Market - Canada's First Galactic Market!

[JesterTerrestrial]

OK here is one thing I have done to help build a Radiant Zone.

I started a farmers market in my town and just got asked to start another one next year! So I figure I started 1 last year...I might as well start 2 next year for a total of 3. I got a laser! Its cool.

Booth Fees Only 10 bucks...until money collapses then i dunno what happens...we'll figure something out...gold...silver...barter perhaps :mfr_lol:

The goal has always been to become Canada's First Galactic Market so we can build Universal Connections!

Come on people...keep it together. Don't forget its the Golden Age.

I've been up all night every Friday baking Galactic Cinnamon Bread all summer just to make this happen and I Love it.

www.HolsteinFarmersMarket.ca
Friendly Visitors & Vendors of all Nations & Planets Welcome!
Michael Toldnes - The JesterTerrestrial Himself
:welcomeani:

[Northboy]

Could we build it into a market network, first having multiple locations in given region and then going national?

To me, this should be the first project for Avalon as it creates a second teir of trade activity. If we have local markets and producers of many things, we won't get hit so bad when the music stops and everyones scrambling for a chair.

Great work! A great inspiration!

[JesterTerrestrial]

Lets do it! I got all kinds of information on how to start a market.

That is interesting that you are thinking so big but I guess you have to in order to go galactic.

There are already several networks in place that are great resources to work with. Farmers Markets Ontario is one of the biggest ones. We are a member.

Building a virtual network would be a very good thing. I am working on some new plans for the website. Once it started this spring I have been running in circles and then my laptop died. I plan to launch it next year with some advanced ways of vendors and customers to connect. I would love to tie this into Avalon somehow and help others get a market started in their town.

Markets are the way of the future...AGAIN.

In the 1980's there was something like 50 markets in Ontario and now there is well over 120 plus handfuls of other private markets and farm gate sales. Its a struggle. There are lots of rules from the government. Some of them are there for good reasons because health and safety are important. You dont want people getting sick. I have a DVD with info about it. Basic stuff. Wash your hands and dishes and tables. :original:

[JesterTerrestrial]

Alright here is one more project I'm working on. :thumb_yello:

I built this with scraps and would love to go large scale. I mean this could be 50 feet tall if you really want one. Anyway...this project is one that I made a couple years ago and am slowly getting all the parts I need to develop this into a market ready product. Free Energy from the wind!

The research development of Canada came to see it at my shop but there was no further development in this. It is still open for investment and development.

I went to the dragons den at CBC but I'm not really corporate material as Sean Wise would probably have guessed in the heat of the den. It was hot. I suppose I was not. That makes it cool.

http://www.aerobine.ca/

[Phtha]

Wow this is such an excellent idea.

I gave up my "real" job and started working on a hobby farm just so I could learn all about it.
The lady I work for has a lot of land and would let me start a big garden if I wanted.

I am going to read through your site asap and possibly bombard you with questions. :biggrin2:

[draconine]

The market is a great idea. Global catastrophes aside, it's a great way to interact and distribute high quality food products. It creates a sense of community that lacks in mass-produced products just do not have. The distance created by consumer trends of today are part of the reason we all seem to be on our own islands slowly drifting away from each other.

I checked the aerobine and I like the design. It says to 'contact us' on the page but with no contact info. You should add that to the page. I just wanted to ask if I could use this design, and I'm assuming you own it.

[Gale]

I am originally from Peterborough Ontario and I had always enjoyed the weekend farmers market. Everything from fresh meat, vegetables to hand made gifts even electronics on Sundays.

I am now in British Columbia and the market here is a few people get together to sell flowers on Saturday morning. Apparently there is strict legislation about slaughtering and selling meat which is a deterrent for farmers.

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey...check out my car...we built a fuel cell in my buddy's living room. HA

we are still testing this. Fuel cell is working. Could be developed into many products. Making the car computer work with it is another issue. So far the test have not produced an increase in millage but there are a couple more mods to do that need to be tested such as the MAP sensor and O2 extenders. Since this video was made I have added check valves that split the brown gas (HHO) between the throttle and the vacuum I have not put it on a flow meter because I don't have one and need to build one

Get some water. Stick some electricity in it. Whada Ya get?
HHO okay?!

HHOOKA!st - The Water Bong For Your Car!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvrSlYSd6c

These are the type of things I want to sell at the markets...and more...I'm just getting warmed up. I am trying to fund these projects (and some other bigger ones TBA :) by baking galactic cinnamon bread. Its a half baked idea if u ever heard one but im givin it all I got. I'm just planning my big Harvest Party for the market...might even be free vendors fees as we have most of the overhead bill paid off.

Northboy, Phtha, draconine, Gale
Thanks for your replies. I hope we can get something organized and build a team of people who will help lead the way. Were gonna make it. I just know it. The hardest part is getting people to come to the market. Even 10-20 more customers makes a major difference in supporting the market. Our first goal or basic building frame was 6 vendors - 100 customers who spend $10 each. This was the goal to start building a micro economy. We have just about doubled that on our first year!

Yeah rebuild the areobine it if you want. Its a fairly simple design. I still need to get the generator developed. I was thinking about a homopolar design. I started testing with a 3 phase PM design but need to build a larger scale one...this fall. I made it in my head and then it manifested. :D

I lived right in the heart Peterborough for 3 years. I miss the grilled cheese at the only cafe (its not the only cafe, just what its called). I went to Trent University for some computer science but as much as I'm not corporate material I'm not university material either. I learned everything I need on the first class from one "crazy" professor...it goes like this.

WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY HOW.
I don't believe anything until I know everything all at once right now.

JT
MARKET MARKET MARKET

[Northboy]

Lets do it! I got all kinds of information on how to start a market.

That is interesting that you are thinking so big but I guess you have to in order to go galactic.

There are already several networks in place that are great resources to work with. Farmers Markets Ontario is one of the biggest ones. We are a member.

Building a virtual network would be a very good thing. I am working on some new plans for the website. Once it started this spring I have been running in circles and then my laptop died. I plan to launch it next year with some advanced ways of vendors and customers to connect. I would love to tie this into Avalon somehow and help others get a market started in their town.

Markets are the way of the future...AGAIN.

In the 1980's there was something like 50 markets in Ontario and now there is well over 120 plus handfuls of other private markets and farm gate sales. Its a struggle. There are lots of rules from the government. Some of them are there for good reasons because health and safety are important. You dont want people getting sick. I have a DVD with info about it. Basic stuff. Wash your hands and dishes and tables. :original:

Could you post a how to manual on strating a village market on a thread?

Communities revolve around their marketplaces, its the natural meeting place, so to develop community I believe this is one of the cornerstones. Once we get a few volunteers to work on starting markets next year (let's aim for the spring), we can start threading them together.

[JesterTerrestrial]

Sure. Here is one that I found in my research last year to get anyone started who is interested.

Alberta Agriculture and Food Managers Guide (http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/apa8431/$FILE/farmers_market_manual_2007.pdf)

[JesterTerrestrial]

Ok...just for reference...

I started another thread in the Economy section of this site to try raise some more awareness to getting something together.

Avalon Galactic Farmers and Artisans Market Network (http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2107)

[JesterTerrestrial]

Here is the new lights we built. I'm working on some bigger ones and am looking into LED Grow lights. for FOOD. Seriously. :mfr_lol:

Yes. That is 15 super brights running on 1AA.

Now. Just need to do something with it. Grow Tubes! Other lighting. I don't know, what ever you need I guess.

JT - !ST

[JesterTerrestrial]

Here is another one for fun...Water powered engine very low friction.

This was built a couple years ago as an experiment mainly so see what would happen. A little squirt of water and the thing takes off like a jet!

Filsinger Turbine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erf7Fn--324

Check out the water turbine. Cant wait to get a bigger pressure washer on it and a super generator. Not sure of what this can be developed into but man dose this thing ever spin fast. :thumb_yello:

[Norval]

Thats a Tesla disc turbine Jester, , ,

[JesterTerrestrial]

Thats a Tesla disc turbine Jester, , ,

I think his ran on steam...but I could be wrong. I have not really looked at his patents for that one.

If you wanted to make this even more efficient there are a couple modifications that have already been drawn up but not manufactured...yet :original:

Time and Money...two things I'm not good at keeping track of.

Come on matrix singularity help me out here :)

JT

[mervo]

Here is the new lights we built. I'm working on some bigger ones and am looking into LED Grow lights. for FOOD. Seriously. :mfr_lol:

Yes. That is 15 super brights running on 1AA.

Now. Just need to do something with it. Grow Tubes! Other lighting. I don't know, what ever you need I guess.

JT - !ST

Oh hey seriously this is brilliant...

The "market" concpept...

Look how the powers have taken the word and applied to
stocks and money.

We used to grow food and eat it.

Now we work for someone in trade for pictures of obscenely rich
and dead people. We also get paid with numbers on computers
which some convert to pictures.

Then we take pictures to stores and trade them for food
grown 3,000 miles away.

Back to the lights...on the lines of my light engine.

I've converted the kids old bikes into windmills.

I paint pictures...I'll paint pictures for things I need
and gold but not for pictures of ruch people or numbers on
computers.

Wiarton Market
[URL="http:www.mervo.com/market"[/URL]

(copyright message there to warn off a "for profit" publisher who takes without asking!)...please take no offence! i really don't care.

Feel free to email me.

[mervo]

Here is the new lights we built. I'm working on some bigger ones and am looking into LED Grow lights. for FOOD. Seriously. :mfr_lol:

Yes. That is 15 super brights running on 1AA.

Now. Just need to do something with it. Grow Tubes! Other lighting. I don't know, what ever you need I guess.

JT - !ST

Oh hey seriously this is brilliant...

The "market" concpept...

Look how the powers have taken the word and applied to
stocks and money.

We used to grow food and eat it.

Now we work for someone in trade for pictures of obscenely rich
and dead people. We also get paid with numbers on computers
which some convert to pictures.

Then we take pictures to stores and trade them for food
grown 3,000 miles away.

Back to the lights...on the lines of my light engine.

I've converted the kids old bikes into windmills.

I paint pictures...I'll paint pictures for things I need
and gold but not for pictures of ruch people or numbers on
computers.

Wiarton Market
http:www.mervo.com/market

(copyright message there to warn off a "for profit" publisher who takes without asking!)...please take no offence! i really don't care.

Feel free to email me.

[mervo]

Here is the new lights we built. I'm working on some bigger ones and am looking into LED Grow lights. for FOOD. Seriously. :mfr_lol:

Yes. That is 15 super brights running on 1AA.

Now. Just need to do something with it. Grow Tubes! Other lighting. I don't know, what ever you need I guess.

JT - !ST

Oh hey seriously this is brilliant...

The "market" concpept...

Look how the powers have taken the word and applied to
stocks and money.

We used to grow food and eat it.

Now we work for someone in trade for pictures of obscenely rich
and dead people. We also get paid with numbers on computers
which some convert to pictures.

Then we take pictures to stores and trade them for food
grown 3,000 miles away.

Back to the lights...on the lines of my light engine.

I've converted the kids old bikes into windmills.

I paint pictures...I'll paint pictures for things I need
and gold but not for pictures of ruch people or numbers on
computers.

Wiarton Market
"http:www.mervo.com/market"

(copyright message there to warn off a "for profit" publisher who takes without asking!)...please take no offence! i really don't care.

Feel free to email me.

[mervo]

Here is the new lights we built. I'm working on some bigger ones and am looking into LED Grow lights. for FOOD. Seriously. :mfr_lol:

Yes. That is 15 super brights running on 1AA.

Now. Just need to do something with it. Grow Tubes! Other lighting. I don't know, what ever you need I guess.

JT - !ST

Oh hey seriously this is brilliant...

The "market" concpept...

Look how the powers have taken the word and applied to
stocks and money.

We used to grow food and eat it.

Now we work for someone in trade for pictures of obscenely rich
and dead people. We also get paid with numbers on computers
which some convert to pictures.

Then we take pictures to stores and trade them for food
grown 3,000 miles away.

Back to the lights...on the lines of my light engine.

I've converted the kids old bikes into windmills.

I paint pictures...I'll paint pictures for things I need
and gold but not for pictures of ruch people or numbers on
computers.

Wiarton Market (http:www.mervo.com/market)


(copyright message there to warn off a "for profit" publisher who takes without asking!)...please take no offence! i really don't care.

Feel free to email me.

[JesterTerrestrial]

hey I heard about you guys in Wiarton. How's willy? HA! :mfr_lol:

This was the first year for your market too...congrats! What I heard was very good things ;)

Did you get a little trigger happy there?

Thats great that you paint and i hope to get to see your works someday. Everyone has a skill or something that they can add to a market. Talk to you soon.

Create the future!
JT

[JesterTerrestrial]

Galactic Cinnamon Bread - Get em while there fresh!

!ST Magnetic Kick Coils - Get em while there Hot.

Seriously..could use a little help here with the science and inventions and getting them out there. Got a great team just trying to figure out the answers and the questions :)

Much more as the future gets here.

[Northboy]

Anyone wishing to work on opening community markets in Canada may consider using their Community Futures office to organize themselves locally.

Just go into an office and tell them you want to work on developing a series of village markets across the region. You might be surprised how much help you get.

[JesterTerrestrial]

Anyone wishing to work on opening community markets in Canada may consider using their Community Futures office to organize themselves locally.

Just go into an office and tell them you want to work on developing a series of village markets across the region. You might be surprised how much help you get.

hey Northboy
So you going to start one in your town? :)

What it clearly needs is a plan. I would consider drafting a plan to outline some of the key features if there was enough support in terms of numbers of friends. It takes good people to want to start something. It dose not have to be a huge market, a little effort makes a huge difference.

I hear that some parts of the world have all kinds of markets. 2 or 3 vendors at some of them. The point is they try and made a big difference to the world of a few customers. Micro economy's all running on their own yet networked to a spiritual minded team. I'm not even sure that I know what a galactic market is or that the world is ready for such a thing, but I sure would like one!

What I do know is that developing markets across the land will be key to survival in the future. It only makes sense. There is enough on this planet for ALL of everyone. The goal is that when the tides change on the way this bass ackwards world works we will be trading with our galactic family and neighbors...come on, once my cinnamon bread gets out the whole milky way is going to want a taste....its amazing im serious I don't even want to sell it!

I see lots of great information around here and think that we should get a complete list of how to grow each type of fruit and vegetable all in a database. This would great to help people start their own farm to support more local markets. The more people we get the stronger the network will be. Markets on the move...high-teck home based business network.

Dont to forget to vote...for markets. ^ Up there ^

[JesterTerrestrial]

LETS BARTER SYSTEM (http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/)

Here is a link to the barter system that could be set up. There is much information here that could be the building blocks for something bigger then my current dreams can manifest. Have a look. There is a FAQ that basically sums it up.

I am also working on an organic growers guide with a friend that 1. will help me grow amazing food. 2. help others grow amazing food. I plan to add this to my market site this fall. Well thanks for reading and checing my post out. Its a wild world eh...good thing I have even wilder plans!

JT

[ranma187]

Wow i wonder if jester will start Quarks bar on deep space nine:mfr_lol:


but yeah this sounds great!

[JesterTerrestrial]

Wow i wonder if jester will start Quarks bar on deep space nine:mfr_lol:


but yeah this sounds great!

I was thinking more like

The Grand Funk Cafe! :thumb_yello:

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey check it out. We just had another review done on our market!!!

Seasonal Ontario Food Blog Holstein Farmers' Market (http://seasonalontariofood.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Farmers%20Market)

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey...we got all out bills paid so were giving it away!!
FREE VENDOR SPACE OCT 18 & 25th!!

The goal for next year is free vendor space all or at least part of the year. I'm not quite sure how this will work yet but if there is a will there is a way.

Plans in the works for another market next year underway...if anyone else out there wants to get involved and start a market in your town now is the time to start...its a lot of fun and makes your town a better place! Come to the market...bring your revolution boots!

Not a lot of votes for markets out there...hmmmmm well I'm working on tons of new projects some of which i have posted above and one project is software that can be used for a market site that will link vendors all over the place, that should keep me busy all winter. Hang tight Canada...were gonna make it! I just know it! :thumb_yello:

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey there to all my friends at avalon...you are one wild bunch if I ever met one. I have never meet most of you face to face but sure do enjoy reading most of what people write ;)

Have you ever heard such wild topics that are being discussed here? Holy **** I think I just went Galactic! Universal bound I am so it seems! I'm just gonna keep one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the holy handle. Thank you all so much for sharing with me your stories and information much of it has help make scene of these monumental changes that are happening to us all. After a few months of reading here and we can make a movie called what the bleep don't we know. This is because you can have the truth or you can have lies. You can also argue the truth but you will be wrong.

I'm working on plans for next years market if anyone out there wants to help make this market bigger then I can ever dream and I seem to be able to dream big. I have a lot more vendors lined up for this year and am always looking for more help to grow this little market into well...read the above posts I am just about out of my head with ideas. Well i just know there are a few good people on my team...i just know it ;)

I'm working on starting a new booth at the market selling some interesting items. Here is a sneak peak to our new site. www.isteam.ca Its all just for fun :lmao: well back to the laboratory and to work i go. Best wishes and good vibes to anyone who reads this. Peace JT

[Myplanet2]

Next year I'd like to see a floating dock for my saucer.

Oh yeah. Isteam will have to have saucers for sale before then, ok?

think big.:naughty::cup:

[JesterTerrestrial]

http://www.holsteinfarmersmarket.ca/HFM%202009%202ND%20SEASON2.jpg



Help make this the best intergalactic market ever!

Economy hurtin' on your planet? Join a market in your town today!

[THE eXchanger]

the 13th vote -- for yes , let's do it

Jester Terrestrial 's ideas / and, implementing them
is amasing :)

thanks for coming to the ground crew meeting

& sharing you, and, your ideas

love/susan
the eXchanger

[JesterTerrestrial]

thank you eXchanger...you have done a excellent service to the ground crew! I should thank you so much. Until the next meeting I'll be chillin in my market office dreaming big on the front lines of new peaceful earth :mfr_lol:

[Antaletriangle]

I can't understand why there are no other options rather that "A" or "B"? lol.

[Phtha]

Hey Jester, how is everything going?
I got myself a few acres of organic land, moving may first, and am gonna try and get a lot of crops going by the end of this season.
We have a farmers market out here every Sunday, but its really not that what you call health conscious, although its getting better.

I am thinking of starting my own little market as soon as I have the product.
Was there any legal stuff you have to go through to start a market in your area?

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey Phtha going great I would have to say. Sounds like a great idea...moving to some organic land and growing some vegetables!

When I first started my market I emailed my local township council. In my case I asked to use the local park. There is a recreation advisory committee that looks after all the recreation and park issues. Then there is the township council member of 7 or 8 councilors. The township has shown some support in a local community guide for business with our listing in it. I have also received free printing from the economic development committee. As for financial support I'm mostly on my own. We have to pay the township $100 a month to rent. My township is the only one and Grey and Bruce county that charges rent. Guess I'm just gonna have to get a little more radical this year. I sort of don't mind paying some rent though because it is a very nice park. No free rides round here. lol I used to have a job but once avalon opened in September things in my life just got way to weird and i had to quit just to keep up with it all :mfr_lol: So now I'm just going at my market full time...Its all I got. Its been the most amazing experience of my life, yet. This year I am just floating through the winter and have been working hard to get ready for THE SUMMER OF AWESOME!

Anyway. Lots of councils and meetings. Plan for things to take a little longer then you plan. Sometimes dealing with this many people it can take days for things to happen. I contacted the local health unit and have had good communications with them as to the guidelines for keeping people safe at a farmers market. There was a farmers market package available with some posters to hang up at the market and a DVD for Food safety at a farmers market. WASH YOUR HANDS! We have to provide a hand washing station with potable water that I have been driving to the closest free UV water filter at a conservation park a few KM from my market. This year I have permission to use the UV water filter that is located in the Pavilion building where someday I hope to be able to grow the market into. I am also getting a deal on the insurance so that will save us at least 500 bucks! But the insurance is not as good. The other cover me and the staff. Forget lottery tickets...I gamble with my life...i know I have some friends that watch out for me much better then any insurance agent in a suit ever could.

So I have found a way to reduce our costs and this will in turn give us a few more dollars to spend on special events and guest speakers and advertising. I'll be working around the clock as usual. Gotta get me a watch that tracks spiral time. :) I also just found out that I am accepted into a market garden grant program. The Super Funk Power Market Garden just got five hundred big ones. So I am putting in a much larger garden this year to help support my market. So long story short I would contact your local health office and ask them to dig out any info they have. Also contact the local municipal office. The mountian of information you get from there should keep you busy for a while. More importantly tho contact your neighbor and everyone you know. Call the papers and media people. Make posters and come up with some cool ideas...call it a galactic market and keep on rockin in the free world Best Wishes for you and your market Peace JT :D

[Phtha]

Cheers Jester glad its going good there.
It sounds like you are having a lot of fun with it, that usually means your doing the right thing eh. :thumb_yello:

And great info, I always forget about contacting people by email when it comes to these things. I really like the idea of the Galactic Market so I will certainly be using that name, hopefully they will start popping up all over! I got the art work covered, once upon a time I had a career doing digital videogame art, and kinda miss parts of it, so always happy to have an excuse to fire up the old art programs. If you ever need art done let me know. Free for the Galactic Market. ;) The banners and other art I have seen so far for the market is really nice stuffs.


Btw, what did you need insurance for?

[THE eXchanger]

Super site - and, gr8 ideas

enjoyed eXchanging with you today

keep us posted , on new developed

gr8 new website :)

[THE eXchanger]

how was business today, at the market

let us know, how it's going :)

i enjoyed visiting it

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hey eXChanger... not sure if you will read this or not but it was great to have met you and piers at my market! We had a blast and I hope everything is well out there with you too! I know how crazy it can get.

I got so caught up on being able to love and just about got lost in my research I have not followed up on my market thread! My second season of markets was... as I called it...the summer of awesome! I am still just floating on empty in the financial as usual. I really started out with nothing and yup, that's about what i got left. :) :(

We have doubled the size of the market from the first year and I expect next year to be another important year of networking and growth as we continue to establish and expand our market venture. My own personal garden will be bigger this year to help provide food for my market table! I am going to have SOOOO many strawberries next year! :thumb_yello:

Anyone wanting to partner up and help me develop this crazy business venture of the Farmers Market and my Grand Funk Cafe where I actually turn my house into a business location please contact me asap because...the time is now! I can not float on empty much longer. I do plan to go for a third season and develop my house into the market store and operate my baking/cafe once I secure funding and renovations are complete. I am going to talk to a private business lending firm this week and see if there is any help there but thought I would toss it out there to anyone here who might want to get involved in something new.

SHOW AND PROVE

That's the game I'm playing. I have 2 years of books for my market and and my cafe/wood craft business. I would really love to work with someone who has a positive vision of the future and a few bucks to make it happen. I have developed an entire network of market vendors and set the stage for growth of a little farmers market into a solid marketplace that will lead the way into the new economy. I am well aware of the importance of what we have here but in reality this thing can not fly if it can not float. It has been a very long road that few have traveled but I have made it this far...why stop now?

So...who wants to do some business with the jester? Let me put it this way... COME ON!!! We can work with government issued cash or gold or whatever :naughty: With funding I might even be able to get the hyper slush time freeze machine fixed! lol

Anyway... I'm off to a market managers class put on by a local food organization tomorrow www.foodlinkgreybruce.com

forward motion in a positive direction - Peace JT

[no caste]

Hi Jester -

I don't have any money to invest (either) :original::sad:

BUT - if I did, or was closer, I'd buy your strawberries. I LOVE your taste, I LOVE your posters - there might be something there for a store? graphic art? - I LOVE your energy!! I LOVE the music you post.

So, I don't know how yet, but I am thinking .....

... GALACTIC EXPANSION!! (too) ... into the aether....

I also LOVE your how to love thread!!

who knows....

[Gnosis5]

OK here is one thing I have done to help build a Radiant Zone.

I started a farmers market in my town and just got asked to start another one next year! So I figure I started 1 last year...I might as well start 2 next year for a total of 3. I got a laser! Its cool.

Booth Fees Only 10 bucks...until money collapses then i dunno what happens...we'll figure something out...gold...silver...barter perhaps :mfr_lol:

The goal has always been to become Canada's First Galactic Market so we can build Universal Connections!

Come on people...keep it together. Don't forget its the Golden Age.

I've been up all night every Friday baking Galactic Cinnamon Bread all summer just to make this happen and I Love it.

www.HolsteinFarmersMarket.ca
Friendly Visitors & Vendors of all Nations & Planets Welcome!
Michael Toldnes - The JesterTerrestrial Himself
:welcomeani:


Folks, I have met this fella in person and he is awesome!!! Such an upscale being and very capable coupled with common sense and idealism. Don't underestimate this fella!

You can't go wrong hooking up with him and creating some great co-survival.

I just spent two hours trying to help my hubby get the big picture and even though I'm usually a cool person it was quite frustrating, but he is coming along and we are forming a collective vision of how we can actually spiritually profit from anything this current geo/political/economic scene is going to dish out.


This fella already has it all figured out and he needs some more very upbeat and wise people to work with him, which I am sure he is already attracting. Definitely fits my definition of what a true leader should be.

blessings,
Gnosis

[Gnosis5]

I am starting to think more artsy craftsy and am pretty good with my hands and I wonder what direction I should go in. What are people looking for most at farmer's markets, especially the one's you set up?


Lets do it! I got all kinds of information on how to start a market.

That is interesting that you are thinking so big but I guess you have to in order to go galactic.

There are already several networks in place that are great resources to work with. Farmers Markets Ontario is one of the biggest ones. We are a member.

Building a virtual network would be a very good thing. I am working on some new plans for the website. Once it started this spring I have been running in circles and then my laptop died. I plan to launch it next year with some advanced ways of vendors and customers to connect. I would love to tie this into Avalon somehow and help others get a market started in their town.

Markets are the way of the future...AGAIN.

In the 1980's there was something like 50 markets in Ontario and now there is well over 120 plus handfuls of other private markets and farm gate sales. Its a struggle. There are lots of rules from the government. Some of them are there for good reasons because health and safety are important. You dont want people getting sick. I have a DVD with info about it. Basic stuff. Wash your hands and dishes and tables. :original:

[JesterTerrestrial]

Hi Jester -

I don't have any money to invest (either) :original::sad:

BUT - if I did, or was closer, I'd buy your strawberries. I LOVE your taste, I LOVE your posters - there might be something there for a store? graphic art? - I LOVE your energy!! I LOVE the music you post.

So, I don't know how yet, but I am thinking .....

... GALACTIC EXPANSION!! (too) ... into the aether....

I also LOVE your how to love thread!!

who knows....

Yeah...this whole going galactic thing is kinda wild sometimes :) when your in the veggi market you gotta keep it fresh!

Heres a couple pictures of my own secret garden :biggrin2:

Strawberry!!!
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010022.jpg

My Strawberry Garden!!! They have grown even bigger!!! Their Everywhere!!! Its a conspiracy!!! :lmfao:
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010013.jpg

Some of my Tomatoes!!!
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010027-1.jpg

[JesterTerrestrial]

I am starting to think more artsy craftsy and am pretty good with my hands and I wonder what direction I should go in. What are people looking for most at farmer's markets, especially the one's you set up?

Well thank you for the kind words :wub2: It was quite a very energetic time when we met. My head it still spinning from that get together! I would not say I have it all figured out...just kinda wingin it! :)

Well I have mainly focused on my original market. I spoke to my township about a second market but for some strange reason the govenment dose not seem to want to jump up and down to help me on my mission that I am here on earth to do :naughty: I have spoken to another market director in my area and gave them some great advice on running their market and I heard that it was a good year for them. It has turned out to be a large amount of work to run my market. We should do what we do best and do it...best. So I am focusing on my little market and aiming big... some say I got my head in the clouds but the truth is my eyes are in the stars!

All kinds of crafts seem to do well. People are looking for the vegetables of course but other things do well, honey, maple syrup, baking and other food items. As far as crafts go...its hard to say...knitted items hats scarves mitts, jewelery, bird houses, paintings, pottery, the universe really is the no limit. Finding something that is funky and functional seems to be the trick! Sometimes you need to do a few different things to keep enough variety. That's another important thing...variety...gotta keep it fresh! When you have a small market place it can start to get "old" fast...coming up with something new each week is a challenge and exciting...at least that what I keep telling myself. The most important thing I can think of...is have fun! Peace JT

[Gnosis5]

Yeah...this whole going galactic thing is kinda wild sometimes :) when your in the veggi market you gotta keep it fresh!

Heres a couple pictures of my own secret garden :biggrin2:

Strawberry!!!
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010022.jpg

My Strawberry Garden!!! They have grown even bigger!!! Their Everywhere!!! Its a conspiracy!!! :lmfao:
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010013.jpg

Some of my Tomatoes!!!
http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss328/JesterTerrestrial/Super%20Funk%20Power%20Market%20Garden/I3010027-1.jpg

Wow! A lot of cow manure must have gone into that great looking garden! Do you also use straw as mulch?

[Gnosis5]

Hey...check out my car...we built a fuel cell in my buddy's living room. HA

we are still testing this. Fuel cell is working. Could be developed into many products. Making the car computer work with it is another issue. So far the test have not produced an increase in millage but there are a couple more mods to do that need to be tested such as the MAP sensor and O2 extenders. Since this video was made I have added check valves that split the brown gas (HHO) between the throttle and the vacuum I have not put it on a flow meter because I don't have one and need to build one

Get some water. Stick some electricity in it. Whada Ya get?
HHO okay?!

HHOOKA!st - The Water Bong For Your Car!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvrSlYSd6c

These are the type of things I want to sell at the markets...and more...I'm just getting warmed up. I am trying to fund these projects (and some other bigger ones TBA :) by baking galactic cinnamon bread. Its a half baked idea if u ever heard one but im givin it all I got. I'm just planning my big Harvest Party for the market...might even be free vendors fees as we have most of the overhead bill paid off.

Northboy, Phtha, draconine, Gale
Thanks for your replies. I hope we can get something organized and build a team of people who will help lead the way. Were gonna make it. I just know it. The hardest part is getting people to come to the market. Even 10-20 more customers makes a major difference in supporting the market. Our first goal or basic building frame was 6 vendors - 100 customers who spend $10 each. This was the goal to start building a micro economy. We have just about doubled that on our first year!

Yeah rebuild the areobine it if you want. Its a fairly simple design. I still need to get the generator developed. I was thinking about a homopolar design. I started testing with a 3 phase PM design but need to build a larger scale one...this fall. I made it in my head and then it manifested. :D

I lived right in the heart Peterborough for 3 years. I miss the grilled cheese at the only cafe (its not the only cafe, just what its called). I went to Trent University for some computer science but as much as I'm not corporate material I'm not university material either. I learned everything I need on the first class from one "crazy" professor...it goes like this.

WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY HOW.
I don't believe anything until I know everything all at once right now.

JT
MARKET MARKET MARKET

As soon as you said "free" for the vendors that just did not seem right to me because $10 is as close to free as anyone can expect and YOU need to pay yourself somehow for your coordination efforts and even though you might get other things from the vendors in return for your contribution towards them, one still needs cash to pay things like electric bills. Just my two cents here.

blessings
gnosis

[JesterTerrestrial]

Wow! A lot of cow manure must have gone into that great looking garden! Do you also use straw as mulch?

As soon as you said "free" for the vendors that just did not seem right to me because $10 is as close to free as anyone can expect and YOU need to pay yourself somehow for your coordination efforts and even though you might get other things from the vendors in return for your contribution towards them, one still needs cash to pay things like electric bills. Just my two cents here.

blessings
gnosis

hi gnosis,

thanks for the links in the PM you sent me :thumb_yello:

I did not use any manure. Just seeds and water and sun. I did end up with a blight to the tomatoes a few weeks after this picture. Most other things did well. Im not sure if it was all the chemtrails that were sprayed on us that caused the weather to be cool and damp or the galactic equator or el nino or what but right when they needed the heat the most they did not get it. Ah well I'll just try harder next year.

Yes vendor fees are still collected. It was just the last two weeks were free. I am registering my market as a private business in order to be able to get some funding to move ahead. I had considered registering as non-profit if there was at least enough funding to pay some small salaries but after two years of personally funding the entire venture there has been no benefit to this so I will run it private and I am currently seeking some investors to help me take this to the next level and turn it into the awesome galactic market I know it will be. I had a dream about this market when I was about 13 years old and I have since discovered that it was a future vision of my market.

Anyway I did get one phone call because of this post on avalon from a very nice person who has some great ideas and I am sure we will talk again! Keep it fresh avalon! Lots of work to do even in the winter!

JT

[Gnosis5]

I think you are one of the coolest people on this forum! So upbeat all the time, where does that come from?

I want to ask your opinion, since I have some manual skills at making various things, what would you say are things that visitors to the markets appreciate the most? Is it food items, or is it craft items. What are the "best sellers" that you have observed?

Thank you,
Colleen

[JesterTerrestrial]

I think you are one of the coolest people on this forum! So upbeat all the time, where does that come from?

I want to ask your opinion, since I have some manual skills at making various things, what would you say are things that visitors to the markets appreciate the most? Is it food items, or is it craft items. What are the "best sellers" that you have observed?

Thank you,
Colleen

Well food needs to be the priority. People need to eat. Even when evil money based economy's crash and burn like towers loaded with explosives.

Anyway...FOOD. A market should be based around local food production and small artisan and local business. They are both equally important really but the food is a little more equally important because its really the base of a farmers market. so 2 + 2 = 5 for very large amounts of 2. :lmfao:

That said. Its all about balance.

Things that sell Vegetables especially local organic/all natural, all kinds of baking, specialty food items, jams, honey, maple syrup, and so on...

Crafts can do well too but tend to sell less frequently as food...I mean you can only buy so many "things" but most people eat every day or two. But that said if a crafter works hard and makes enough variety they can do lots of things to trade for other services and items.

There is lots of bartering going on all the time between customers and vendors. Everyone has something to offer...even the customers! If you have a functional skill you just need to put it into action with what you have got and go for it. Leap before you look and learn to fly so you never hit rock bottom.

Outer Space!!! I think that's where it comes from!

~ ~ M E G A C R E A T I V I T Y ~ ~

:wub2:

Peace jt

[Gnosis5]

Okay, thanks for the advices :-) Maybe I can set up a lemonade stand, lol.

I have a sausage machine and have been threatening to do something with it....any health codes I must be aware of at the Holstein Market?

[JesterTerrestrial]

Okay, thanks for the advices :-) Maybe I can set up a lemonade stand, lol.

I have a sausage machine and have been threatening to do something with it....any health codes I must be aware of at the Holstein Market?

As I tell my vendors... Were not the law! :) But...we don't want people getting sick. Each vendor should follow all health regulations for their specific industry. This means that the vendor must do some research of their own. There is lots of information available. I am working with a group of other markets this winter and we are going the be getting some more advanced information available to share among many other local farmers markets. TEAMWORK YEAH!

here is a public health contact list. Don't forget to ask them about aspartame, fluoride, and toxic vaccines because they really like that! :lmao:

http://www.farmersmarketsontario.com/Documents/Public%20Health%20Contact%20List%20Feb%2009.pdf

Baked goods seem to have less problems because the heat from baking kills most bacterias off. Meats and dairy tend to have more concerns. Keep hot foods hot and cold food cold. I would suggest that you do some basic research into your specific product online...book a couple of hours to sift through the growing bloggyness of the internet to find some solid and verifiable information! Hope that helps.

[Gnosis5]

Yes, thank you. If I put enough whisky in the sausages I'm sure they will be bacteria free :-)

[JesterTerrestrial]

Well, I have been at it all week working hard going as fast as I can. Making things for next year and trying to stay focused. I have talked to one person about this business idea and might be able to help them get a small market store operation started in the city. There is growing awareness of the importance of growing our own food. I see a need. I have some ideas as to the solutions of how to work with the already existing local food network to grow and become stronger where we will be able to exceed the food needs. Right in our own back yard. Well at this point in time...November 2009 I am working very hard to see what I can do to make this happen. I have personally funded this venture from my own stash of cash from a previously full time job at a machine shop. Anyway my ideas flow like a river but the cash flow needed to grow must come from an outside source.

I got numbers! I got spreadsheets! I got market magic! So again I give a shout out to any real world business person who wants to get involved and have fun I got a kick ass idea that's sure to be kind of a big deal! Anyway. I'm just floating along as usual. Its about all i can do with 40 bucks to my name! The rest of my funds are tied up in the loop of all the other markets that I have been attending this fall with own market products just to keep it all moving until I find someone who has some of that money stuff and wants to play the game of SHOW AND PROVE! Help me turn the heat up! Its getting cold out this winter! :( :)

So for real?? Anyone out there who wants to invest or buy in or however that business stuff works get a hold of me. Make me a deal! I don't even like money... oh this crazy planet earth. Who wants to invest in the plan and help make it a success!!!

So long story short. Im still just winging it. 2010 - 3RD SEASON!!! MARKET MARKET MARKET!!! THREE TIMES AS AWESOME!!!

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW :woot_jump:
HOLSTEIN FARMERS MARKET :lmfao:
CANADA'S FIRST GALACTIC MARKET :wub2:
FRIENDLY VISITORS FROM ALL NATIONS AND PLANETS WELCOME! :welcomeani:
SAUCER PARKING AVAILABLE :thumb_yello:

[Gnosis5]

You and this fella have some things in common.

http://www.holodynamics.com/interview.html

and here

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/vwoolf.htm

[no caste]

Hi Jester,

I was just reading your update re investors and had a thought. YOU have such a great energy, that I think your product should be YOU. (I'm winging it, too.) So, rather than you moving your produce, your produce moves YOU as the item. Like, hey I'm Jester. My market is the BASIS BASE of my reputation, my life.

How I see that moving is: show people how to grow their own stuff (they pay you for it, consulting). I don't know where you live, but around here people want information about recycling. $100/consult. $200+ if you show up with the rain tub for the eaves run off, low flow shower head and toilet info. Sell seeds as a sideline, or partner with a heritage seed company. (Cross promotion for a percentage of their product.)

An example: You could go into local schools, or even do a wider circumference traveling road show. How to line this up? A lot of people do. I worked with someone, with a child care-journalism background, who set up a non-profit, though another artist I knew did this too as a sole proprietor. Most schools have budgets already for extra curricular activities, and it's at the discretion of the administration and parent councils how to spend it.

Basically you come in as a project. You compile what the benefits to the students will be, e.g. literacy, numeracy, responsibility, citizenship, nutrition, joy (health benefits!), making preservatives, art & colour spectrums, awareness (natural cycles) or whatever it is you can demonstrate the children will gain. I kind of see a heritage angle. (E.g. Ride a bike!)

Then, a lot of big city corporations also have money put aside for donations for these kinds of projects. All you have to do is find the right department. What I used to do, when I worked with the NGO I mentioned was think of the corporation I hated the most, then dial them up. I'm like you, don't really like money, but. However, taking it from XYZ Corp to funnel it into a great program was very easy, which surprised even me. I didn't think I was that nail-em-to=the-door.

Then there are foundations. All of these things take an application. There are deadlines, annual cycles, specific interests that many companies and organizations have. They need to get rid of the money for tax purposes.

Now, a fun thing - and artful thing - is if you can get your, say, program, to BE a fundraiser. That's hard. My idea for myself was to give kids a camera, have THEM take shots of their world, then they sell the packages of cards (business acumen!) to parents, friends, parents' friends, relatives for school projects. After expenses, like wholesale cost of cards, they keep some and give the rest back in to the school. School is the hub. Maybe you could do jam. {ha music!} Pick one: strawberry. Keep it simple. Or what I grew at school cards, if they plant some little things.

Someone did the photography thing with homeless people in Vancouver, and you should SEE what they saw. Beauty everywhere. They got a disposable camera and off they went for a day.

My 2 cents. :shocked:

[THE eXchanger]

What gr8 ideas :)

((((big hugs to you JESTER))))

[Gnosis5]

Yes, and what a good 2cents that was, for myself too :-)

When I lived in the huge metropolis of LA there were two major grocery chains We sold oil paintings on outdoor easels. One day I called the PR person of one of the biggest chains and told her I would like to do a fund raiser for a project I had in mind, called "Project Drug-Free Children" and I would like to donate $50,000 that year to a non-profit corporation that went into schools and educated children in an entertaining way about drugs. I told the PR person that the $50,000 would be donated not in the name of our company but in the name of the grocery store, AND, if they let us display our oil paintings on the huge sidewalks outside their stores we would pass out a brochure that positioned the grocery store beside this non-profit cause which we both knew was a big issue in the LA suburbs.

The PR person loved it, we donated the $50k ($100k the second year) and we grew our business from a two-person business operating out of a garage to a warehouse with 8-10 sales people, doing 4 or 5 locations every weekend.

We made some good money and the grocery chain got good publicity and people purchased something that had not only an aesthetic value, but they could also contribute to bettering their community.




Do you think fresh fried doughnuts would be a big hit at the Galactic Markets?

[Gnosis5]

What gr8 ideas :)

((((big hugs to you JESTER))))

Hi, eXchanger, you look beautiful!

[THE eXchanger]

Hi, eXchanger, you look beautiful!

ahh, i am merely a reflection, of all my good friends ;)

whiskey & sausage - a breakfast of champs ;) :thumb_yello:

maybe, i could bring my de-aging chamber LOL

it would look good, beside the flying saucer runway !!!

[Gnosis5]

ahh, i am merely a reflection, of all my good friends ;)

whiskey & sausage - a breakfast of champs ;) :thumb_yello:

maybe, i could bring my de-aging chamber LOL

Ah, yes, also likewise beautiful :trumpet:

[THE eXchanger]

yes, spring is in the air - what's up with the market ???

btw, this is a great idea for people to do - in their areas :)

[JesterTerrestrial]

yes, spring is in the air - what's up with the market ???

btw, this is a great idea for people to do - in their areas :)

Just calling around to find out who my vendors work for!!!

LOL

Actually its been kind of quiet. But going to be going on a poster run soon to do some advertising. I really hope I get lots of vendors and traffic. I don't have a dime in the budget. I have 20 bucks to my name and not really sure how its all gonna work out. I just keep on making it up as I go. It has been a long winter and I am happy that spring is coming soon so we can get busy. I have lots of things made out of wood and getting some stock piles crafts ready for sale. Also looking into making some new products this year...but am unfortunately limited by lack of funds. This planet and money I tell ya! just wild.

Hey if we had anti-gravity and freed this planet from the controls it faces perhaps we may actually become a galactic market. i tell ya i have seen some interesting and un-usual folk come visit me already :wink2:

So this is my third year already. Wow. We had an average of 10 vendors last year and I expect about the same hopefully a little larger this year. I sometimes freak people out and get a little over metaphysical but higher energy just seems to flow in a straight shot. Last year was the summer of Awesome!

THIS YEAR IS THE SUMMER OF MAGIC!!!

Who wants a booth...tell your friends...the market is on!!!

as long as my garden is not defeated by chemtrails and poor weather I should have tons of strawberries this year! mmmmmm yeah!

plus a hand full of other vegies. plus many other vendors will be bringing their goods and were just gonna have a market party every saturday in the park.

I hope you get a chance to visit this year...I make sure to save a Peace Bomb for you.