Friday, April 23, 2010

Other Markets.

NYC Greenmarket

GOOD: Why didn’t you just call it a farmers' market?

Barry Benepe: Because there were so many ordinary food stores in the city using the words “farmers’ market” even though there were no farmers within a hundred miles selling to the store. They just took this popular term.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

GOOD is thinking about Farmers Markets and EBT

Crowd-sourcing solutions to EBT issues at farmers markets, via Good:
Link

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Usefull Link

This was a helpful precedent for our project.

Mobile Market

Mobile Market!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Packaging Idea

From Inhabitat:
" Yes, [artist] Rodrigo [Piwonka] took a bagel sandwich and put it in an old CD spindle case, thus giving the case a new life as a reusable bagel sandwich container."

As Evan noted earlier in some photographs, many vendors selling produce use baskets to display their food and refill them after the produce is bought. A vendor could gain some interest by using less conventional vessels to store and sell their food in. What do you think?

From Inhabitat: A Barcode that Recedes with a Veggie's Freshness

Inhabitat

A Barcode That Recedes With a Veggie’s Freshness

by Diane Pham, 03/19/10

Walking through the produce aisle shouldn’t be as mysterious as the ingredients on the back of a bag of Cheetos, but sometimes picking out fresh produce can be a befuddling task even for the most seasoned herbivore. Fresh Code, by designers Sisi Yuan, Yiwu Qiu, Lei Zhao, Qiulei Huang, Lijun Zhang & Weihang Shu is a straightforward solution developed as an intelligent barcode not only able to price an item, but also indicate the freshness level of the produce on which it’s affixed. Each bar code uses a special ink that recedes in correlation with passing time and a percentage graph indicating the remaining life of the veggie at hand. So is it time to cook it or compost it? This cabbage looks like it’s on its way out!

Via Yanko Design