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The Palouse Is Big Enough for More Than One Farmers Market. In Fact, We Need More.
Read more: The Palouse Is Big Enough for More Than One Farmers Market. In Fact, We Need More.Why Moscow and Pullman should be partners in building a stronger regional economy, not competitors fighting over the same Saturday morning. By Paul Warner | Pullman Market on Main There’s been some conversation recently about Pullman Market on Main operating on Saturdays at the same time as the Moscow Farmers Market. Some have suggested that…
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One Year of Pullman Market on Main
Read more: One Year of Pullman Market on MainWhat started in a parking lot has become a year-round downtown market built by vendors, volunteers, community partners, and a stubborn belief that Pullman needs this. I’m writing this as one of the people who has had the privilege, and occasional exhaustion, of helping carry Pullman Market on Main through its first year. This is…
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Building a Farmers Market: The Math, the Love, and the Part Nobody Puts on the Poster
Read more: Building a Farmers Market: The Math, the Love, and the Part Nobody Puts on the PosterPeople see a room full of vendors, bags of fresh market finds, kids negotiating for cookies like tiny CEOs, and 300 to 350 neighbors cycling through the doors, and they assume the market is a tidy little money-maker. It is not. This is a post about the real math behind building a small-town market, why…
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Choose Your Partners Wisely (Because Success Makes Things Weird)
Read more: Choose Your Partners Wisely (Because Success Makes Things Weird)Entrepreneurship has taught me a lot. But if I had to boil it down to one lesson I wish I’d learned earlier (and re-learned fewer times), it’s this: Choose your partners wisely. Not your vendors, your logo designer, or even your accountant. Your partners. The people who have access, influence, and proximity to the thing…
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Pullman Doesn’t Need Just One Big Event. It Needs 45 Reasons to Visit.
Read more: Pullman Doesn’t Need Just One Big Event. It Needs 45 Reasons to Visit.Pullman has done and will continue to do the “one big event” thing. We can absolutely keep doing it. But if we’re serious about becoming a place people choose on purpose, we need something different. We need a rhythm. On Feb 14, we had another strong Pullman Market on Main. More vendors, familiar faces, new…
