Farm to Byrd Park Families?
Intrepid ByrdPark.net reporter, John Bourgeois, suggested in a recent comment thread that we ask that the Farm to Family bus make a regular stop in the neighborhood. The Farm to Family bus brings locally grown produce and other edible items to various parts of the city for retail purchase. Their inventory of natural foods is not readily available at local grocery stores. If this is an idea that you would support, please vote in the polls here and speak up with a comment. A Byrd Park stop needs to be worth their while. If we get enough positive reaction, we just may lure the re-purposed 1987 school bus to our neighborhood bringing their supplies of gourmet goodies. Of course, critical input is welcome too.
Where the Farm to Family bus stops could determine how much business they can generate. Should it be in the middle of the Byrd Park neighborhood, so adults can flock to it like children to the ice cream man? Maybe a visible spot like the tennis courts? Somewhere more central for Maymont and Randolph neighborhoods? Cast your vote and explain your perspective.
Let’s keep the voting going through 2/21 in order to give the Farm to Family folks all the input they might need.
My sense is that we need foot traffic on Idlewood Ave. If West End Market prospers, our neighborhood will prosper. If we concentrate all of our inter-neighborhood dollars on that corner (whether it be in the market or right outside on the bus), things can only get better.
The more we shop at the market, the more products it will carry that we use, and the better experience it will be to live in the neighborhood. If we push our energy and our money somewhere else, nothing will change on that corner.
Our collective dollars have the power to change the way things are.
what do y’all think?
I would consider the parking area to the east of the Carillon as there is ample parking and it would be convenient to residents of the Byrd Park area as well as Westover Hills.
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