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Noe Valley Famers Market
CA, CA
Public Service Centers
El Camino Real, CA
The Noe Valley Farmers Market is a year-round California certified farmers' market operated primarily by community volunteers and run in partnership with the Noe Valley Ministry.
The farmers’ market was born when a group of Noe Valley neighbors and activists shared their dismay and disbelief at the sudden closure of the local natural food store. The Real Food Company, which had been a part of Noe Valley for 25 years, closed its doors Thursday night before the 2003 Labor Day Weekend, dismissing 30 workers, the majority of whom had been organizing a union.
Recognizing an injustice, Noe Valley neighbors immediately set out to support the workers, farmers, merchants, and neighbors who missed not only their source for organic produce, but an anchor store in the heart of the retail district. As a direct response to the shuttering of Real Food, community members organized weekly meetings at the Noe Valley Ministry attended by up to 200 people per week to decide how to support the fired workers and how to provide healthy food to the entire community. Two key outcomes of these meetings were the decision to assist the Real Food workers in pursuing their claim of “union busting” with the National Labor Relations Board (a claim ultimately won by the workers in 2007) and the decision to start our own Noe Valley Farmers’ Market to demonstrate that our own community could, with the help of local farmers, provide our own organic and other healthy food Also, as a neighborhood we very much wanted to find a way to continue to create the spirit of community that had emerged in response to the closure of Real Food, and a farmers’ market seemed the ideal vehicle for doing so.
In the support of this spirit of community and its own values of providing service to the community, the Noe Valley Ministry agreed to co-sponsor the market by offering its newly completed parking lot at 3865 24th Street as the venue.
The farmers’ market was born when a group of Noe Valley neighbors and activists shared their dismay and disbelief at the sudden closure of the local natural food store. The Real Food Company, which had been a part of Noe Valley for 25 years, closed its doors Thursday night before the 2003 Labor Day Weekend, dismissing 30 workers, the majority of whom had been organizing a union.
Recognizing an injustice, Noe Valley neighbors immediately set out to support the workers, farmers, merchants, and neighbors who missed not only their source for organic produce, but an anchor store in the heart of the retail district. As a direct response to the shuttering of Real Food, community members organized weekly meetings at the Noe Valley Ministry attended by up to 200 people per week to decide how to support the fired workers and how to provide healthy food to the entire community. Two key outcomes of these meetings were the decision to assist the Real Food workers in pursuing their claim of “union busting” with the National Labor Relations Board (a claim ultimately won by the workers in 2007) and the decision to start our own Noe Valley Farmers’ Market to demonstrate that our own community could, with the help of local farmers, provide our own organic and other healthy food Also, as a neighborhood we very much wanted to find a way to continue to create the spirit of community that had emerged in response to the closure of Real Food, and a farmers’ market seemed the ideal vehicle for doing so.
In the support of this spirit of community and its own values of providing service to the community, the Noe Valley Ministry agreed to co-sponsor the market by offering its newly completed parking lot at 3865 24th Street as the venue.
El Camino Real, CA
The Noe Valley Farmers Market is a year-round California certified farmers' market operated primarily by community volunteers and run in partnership with the Noe Valley Ministry.
The farmers’ market was born when a group of Noe Valley neighbors and activists shared their dismay and disbelief at the sudden closure of the local natural food store. The Real Food Company, which had been a part of Noe Valley for 25 years, closed its doors Thursday night before the 2003 Labor Day Weekend, dismissing 30 workers, the majority of whom had been organizing a union.
Recognizing an injustice, Noe Valley neighbors immediately set out to support the workers, farmers, merchants, and neighbors who missed not only their source for organic produce, but an anchor store in the heart of the retail district. As a direct response to the shuttering of Real Food, community members organized weekly meetings at the Noe Valley Ministry attended by up to 200 people per week to decide how to support the fired workers and how to provide healthy food to the entire community. Two key outcomes of these meetings were the decision to assist the Real Food workers in pursuing their claim of “union busting” with the National Labor Relations Board (a claim ultimately won by the workers in 2007) and the decision to start our own Noe Valley Farmers’ Market to demonstrate that our own community could, with the help of local farmers, provide our own organic and other healthy food Also, as a neighborhood we very much wanted to find a way to continue to create the spirit of community that had emerged in response to the closure of Real Food, and a farmers’ market seemed the ideal vehicle for doing so.
In the support of this spirit of community and its own values of providing service to the community, the Noe Valley Ministry agreed to co-sponsor the market by offering its newly completed parking lot at 3865 24th Street as the venue.
The farmers’ market was born when a group of Noe Valley neighbors and activists shared their dismay and disbelief at the sudden closure of the local natural food store. The Real Food Company, which had been a part of Noe Valley for 25 years, closed its doors Thursday night before the 2003 Labor Day Weekend, dismissing 30 workers, the majority of whom had been organizing a union.
Recognizing an injustice, Noe Valley neighbors immediately set out to support the workers, farmers, merchants, and neighbors who missed not only their source for organic produce, but an anchor store in the heart of the retail district. As a direct response to the shuttering of Real Food, community members organized weekly meetings at the Noe Valley Ministry attended by up to 200 people per week to decide how to support the fired workers and how to provide healthy food to the entire community. Two key outcomes of these meetings were the decision to assist the Real Food workers in pursuing their claim of “union busting” with the National Labor Relations Board (a claim ultimately won by the workers in 2007) and the decision to start our own Noe Valley Farmers’ Market to demonstrate that our own community could, with the help of local farmers, provide our own organic and other healthy food Also, as a neighborhood we very much wanted to find a way to continue to create the spirit of community that had emerged in response to the closure of Real Food, and a farmers’ market seemed the ideal vehicle for doing so.
In the support of this spirit of community and its own values of providing service to the community, the Noe Valley Ministry agreed to co-sponsor the market by offering its newly completed parking lot at 3865 24th Street as the venue.