September 23, 2025 • 44 mins
This week, Theo examines how violent language has not just become normalized and weaponized against the unhoused, but how its worst offenders are lauded as heroes. Then: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Crenshaw Farmer's Market, Theo speaks with organizers Laura, Ashley, Summer, and Jennifer about how community food justice is working to preserve and build community in South LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Previously on Witian House.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This executive order emboldens the states and cities to follow
the lead right of what this executive order is saying.
So what will be the impact? Just like undoubtedly worse
without question, if more and more people are being brought
to psychiatric hospitals and being committed against their well, this
doesn't get at the root issue. These are ineffective measures
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and then they are deeply harmful. So we are going
to have more trauma, more harm, wasted resources and not
actually solving the problem. If all of that really is
where we land when we're having this conversation, it really
can only further show that this isn't about helping people.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Welcome to Wityan House. I'm your host, Leo Henderson. This
week we're going to tackle two competing movements. First the
violence of language and his weaponization against the unhoused, and
on the other end, the hopeful light of food justice
organizers fighting against this hate as the glue of the
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community keeping everyone fed and connected.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But first on House.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
News, getting one's message out to be understood is key
in any successful communication. Language matters, words matter, and one's
message matters. A vivid example is the death of the
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most reviled rabbit and racist podcaster Charlie Kirk. Kirk was
an unrepentant white supremacist and Christian nationalists that inspired and
fomented a violent ideology which ultimately led to his death.
His hateful language was used to demonize people of color,
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the ULGBQTIA community, women, and the list goes on. The
frightening part of this detestable man's message is it is
becoming normalized. Recently, an aspect the violent language was used
by Fox News anchors about the unhoused community.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They have given billions of dollars to mental health and
the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to
take the programs. A lot of them don't want to
get the health that is necessary. You can't give them
a choice. Either you take the resources that we're going
to give you and or you decide that you're going
to be locked up in jail.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's the way it has to be.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, or involuntary lethal injective or something just.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Kill on the kill.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Previously, the Mayor of Lancaster, Raymond Paris, said this about
unhoused people and the use of fitanol.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I could give them the fentanyl, I would I absolutely
would make no mistake about it. Did you have something
you wanted to share with us other than your anger
and your rage?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Well, what kind of a major talks about giving the
homeless fentanyl and you.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Guys don't say anything about it.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
That's a metaphor no metaphor what do you saying that for.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I'm saying, if you want, I do not want the
homeless criminal population who are drug addicted, who are robbing,
raping and murdering our citizens to Maggie in Lancaster and yes,
if I could give this that particular population fentanyl, I
would give them fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
An man.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I'm an equal man man, because I don't want drug
addicts and murdering our citizens.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's evil.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well, then I am in.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
With so much happening with the unhoused community today, it
is easy to adopt this viewpoint, this ideology, because it
starts from the top, from President Trump's executive order all
the way down to Fox News media pundits. It is
an opportune time to remember, if you can demonize a
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group of people, then you can criminalize them. Now is
the time in our communities to speak out, not power
or be bullied from doing what's right. We can't let
fascist win, and that's on House News. When we come back,
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we'll chat with organizers at the Krenshaw Farmers' Market. Welcome
back to Weedian House. I'm Theo Henderson. Recently we've been
talking to about food justice a lot on the show.
Last month I went to Thermo, California and Coachella Valley
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to speak to organizers and participants of a long running
mutual a pop up to provide fresh food and supplies
to their communities. Here is organizer and frequent guests Melissa Ossadero.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I am organizing with the people who literally are the
backbone of our food system. Without them, we literally cannot survive.
And yet they are the last to be thought of
in just the whole construct of this system. What I
see in the fields and the injustice to farm workers,
what I see in our cities, and the injustice with
the unhoused books, it's exactly the same. That violence is
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the same, the system is the same, the other is
the same. Allowing that level of understanding of all the
oppression that's happening in the food system allows us, hopefully,
for me, my hope is to dream better on what
we can do.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This week we're taking a look at a food justice
organization closer to home in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles.
I spoke to organizers with the Crenshaw Farmers' Market ahead
of their twentieth anniversary community Badge this upcoming Saturday, September
twenty seven. For the last two decades, the Crenshaw Farmers
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Market has been a place for people to access.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Healthy food and build community.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And for their big celebration, they're going all out with performances,
family friendly activities, and community leaders speaking. Laura, Ashley, Summer
and Jennifer came into the studio to share more about
the event and the market's ongoing efforts. Here's our chat.
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We have some very special guests in the studios today.
We have an exciting event that's happening on the twenty
seventh of September. And before I get into it or
reveal too much of the details, I want to introduce
our guests, and they're going to introduce themselves and tell
us a little bit about the history of the communities
that they service and what the events is about. So
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before I start off and let me introduce our guests. Today,
we have Summer, Jennifer and we have Ashley also behind
the scenes. If you don't see her, we have Laura
so Ba. Shout out to all of them. So welcome
to Willian House and I thank you all for taking
the time of your busy schedules to educate us and
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to keep us involved and connected into the community.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Thank you for having us. I'm Jennifer Grissom, the executive
director of Food Access. La Crenshaw farmers Market is one
of our nine farmers' markets.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
That we operate.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
We also do a lot of programming around nutrition security
and making sure that people have access to fresh fruits
and vegetables perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How long have you been working with Food Access.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I have been here for just a little over two years,
so sometimes it feels like ten, but it's just been two.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What motivated you to be working into this exciting field?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
So I am very passionate about making sure that everybody
has the access and the knowledge to feed their bodies
in a healthy way. But also understand how much that
impacts our communities and our local food economies and the
wellness of a community. And I know how important those
things are and how overlooked they are many many times.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
As you know, times it's changing in so many ways
consistently with the events earlier. Before we got on studio,
I was mentioning how REDI and House was impacted and
the un the House community was impacted by the pandemic
and the differences how people were facing the pandemic and
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the young house community. We're facing food and security and
food hunger, and I wanted to ask from the un
house perspective, how do you feel that it aligns with
the food access community.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Oh, I think it's very closely aligned. That's a community
that we want to serve if we want to be
able to have relationships with them and foster the relationships
between unhoused and our farmers and vendors that are at
all of our markets. We want them to be able
to take advantage of the programs and the benefits that
are available, and we do. We see that changing a lot,
and it's hard to keep up with what's changing, and
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how do we negotiate what we have to offer and
make sure that it's going to the right places and
to the people who need that, and can further support
those farmers and their work so that we can continue
this cycle of creating these stable food economies.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Most recently I did an episode about von house farm
workers that are responsible for all of our produce and
vegetables from house or on house. If you go to
a restaurant, you're getting produced from this community. If you're
going to the grocery stores and getting the produce from there,
it's from largely directed and from the farms. And here
in California, how can we help make sure that they
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be able to sustain themselves Because with the ice impacted communities.
When I interviewed a lot of the residents there, there's
a lot of shifting priorities. For example, one of the
unhoused families that was talking about their husband and wife
were working, and they had chosen that one person works
and the other person doesn't because in case they get snatched,
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their children will not be an orphaned or without a
parent to be able to support them. These new realities,
which also impacts housing, rent and other things down the road,
are very real considerations. The second thing, particularly out there
in the valley, there are a lot of schools there,
but the schools when as an educator you have to
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have someone that's on the list to be able to
pick up your child. Now they're targeting them and if
you're taking the parents that are coming to pick up
their child that's on the list, the kid cannot be
released where they're going into the system. And that's another
consideration that I don't think a lot of the community
members understand, and so I'm just giving these things out
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just at the top of the head, but I think
it's important to give bear witness to these things that
many of the unhoused farmers are talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
So absolutely we've been having a lot of those conversations too,
and trying to figure out how we as an organization
keep our farm workers safe but also help support them
and continuing to make a living. So we've done some
things like food distributions where we have done it real
low key. We've taken one of our most susceptible markets
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and you know, tried to make it a very safe
space for not only you know, the people who are
visiting the market, but specifically for our farm workers and
people who are our vendors at the market. So there's
a lot of adjusting that's being done and a lot
of listening because there's things that we, you know, we
haven't had to necessarily face head on until recently. So
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it's a big, big obstacle to face and try to
make sure that we're supporting them and keeping them safe
and how do we do that correctly? And so you
know our team has been great about helping addrest that.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, we'll get back with you and I will give
the introduce the rest of the team. Ashley in Summer
welcome and please tell us a little bit about you guys.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Yeah, thank you so much for having us today. My
name is Ashley Clayton. I am the Crenshaw Farmers Market
Manager and so I am there every Saturday rain er
shine in clement weather to support the local community and
make sure that food is accessible to them.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Hi THEO, thank you so much for having us. My
name is Summer Vernon and I am the senior Manager
of Farmer's Market Operations for Food Access LA and I
oversee all of our South LA farmers markets. We have
four South LA farmers markets which includes Central Avenue Farmers Market,
Crenshaw Farmer's Market, Watswillowbrook Farmers Market and Compton College Farmer's Market.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What days are the Farmer's markets, So the audience if
they would like to drop into sure I can.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Start with our South LA ones. So our South La
Ones will start on Wednesday, so we run all nine
of our farmers' markets run Wednesdays through Sundays, and so
we have Wednesdays, we have WATS Willowbrog Farmers' Markets which
runs from nine am to two pm. That's at the
MLK Outpatient Center and Willowbrook. After that we have the
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Compton College Farmers Market which runs from three to seven
thirty on the Compton College campus. On Thursday, we have
two farmers' markets. We have our Central Avenue Farmers Market
which runs from nine am to two pm and that
actually runs out of the Council District nine Constituent Center
off Central Avenue and forty third. And then we have
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our La River Farmers Market, which is on the edge
of Chinatown and that runs from three to seven thirty
at the LA State Historic Park. And then on Fridays
we have our Echo Park Farmers Market which runs from
three to seven thirty and that is in the Echo
Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. And then on Saturdays we
have two farmers' markets. That is our Cringeon Farmer's Market
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which runs from ten to three pm and that's off
of Cringe and s Lawson and then our brand new
farmer's market, which is our Little Tokyo Farmer's Market which
just opened Labor Day weekend, and that runs from nine
to two pm. And Little Tokyo off I don't know
the adjust for that one yet.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's brand new.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
And then on Sunday we have two farmers' markets. We
have Hollywood Farmer's Market, which is our biggest market and
actually the biggest farmer's market in Los Angeles, and that
runs from eight to one pm off of Selma and
IVR in Hearta, Hollywood. And then we have our Atwater
Village Farmers Market, which is in the Atwater neighborhood of
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LA and that runs at the same time from I
believe it's ninety oh an hour later than Hollywood, which.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Is ninety two.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, what's going to ask you a quick question and
follow the question about the Chinatown one. How long have
you guys have been doing the Chinatown Farmer's Market.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Yeah, so that one actually opened literally I think the
month I started with Food Access LA. So that opened
I think the first I think the end of April
or the beginning of May twenty twenty two. And so
we're coming up I guess three and a half years
of that market coming up on four because that's not
going to be my anniversary, and so yeah, we're coming
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up kind of like on the critical time. I think
for farmers markets, like that's kind of like after the
two three year mark is like when they kind of
start get going, and they you know, in the industry,
they say it takes like up to five years for
like a farmer's market to kind of finally kind of
catch its footing in a community, and so I think
we are just now probably starting to see the kind
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of fruits of the labor that we put into that market.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why is this so important to have farmers markets in
these communities that you have highlighted.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Yeah, it's important to have farmer's markets because we had
to have access to fresh foods and veggies. And I
think when people look at grocery stores, they don't really
understand or some people don't understand like the impacts that
sustainability at the grocery stores I guess have on our economy,
on our sustainability environment because the fruit and the produce
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and the veggies and all those things are coming from
so many different places, and the real benefit of farmer's
markets is community and locality regionality and being able to
kind of serve the people who are in that direct community.
And so the food of the farmer's markets are coming
from the people who the people in that community. It's
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being grown locally regionally, and that is a benefit to
the community at large.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
There is such an importance to having strong, stable local
food economies. A lot of the reasons why you spoke
about earlier that those farmers need that support to keep
growing the food, and if we do not have those
farmers growing food, then we will all be hungry, regardless
of your status in life. So, you know, stabilizing those
communities and then add on to that the health and
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wellness that comes from eating nutrient rich foods that haven't
been traveling for miles or been sitting in a plastic
bag for days and days on end. And we know
there are tons of data points and tons of studies
done that when there are healthy communities, they are going
to do better in all areas of life. And so
you know, we are here to support those farmers and
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make sure that they get support, but also support our
communities making sure that they can be part of that.
And to some degree it's a real active resistance, you know,
to show up and support people who are growing food
with their hands, with their labors, wet and tears. It's
not some machine that's making it. It's not a chemical
that's being pushed out in the shape of a chicken nugget,
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you know, not that you know, if people want to
eat that, that's fine too, But there's just so much
to support and so much goodness that comes from this
cycle of growing food within a community.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We also kind of skipped over, but also the price
to we need to have that conversation, and I was
hoping around it and so I had extrapolated further on
it also because of the food deserts. This is conversation
that being Melissa noticed, particularly when I did briefly stay
around in the South kritch Shall area. They used to
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have on Critshawn's Sloughson they used to have with said croakers.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
But what was this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Rouse and the rouse was considerably different than the rauhs
on Seventh and Flower. And what it did was it
was at one point I was trying to tailor to
use the community, but also because it was struggling because
of gentrification and because of the economic instability, that was
going on in the area, they were not able to
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sustain itself.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And so when me and Melissa were.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Talking about what like with the un house community and
things like that here in Like the second example was
in Chinatown, there was a grocery store at Walmart that
had root there and that closed out. And as more
and more of versus going on, and like a little Tokyo,
there's not necessarily strong stores that will be able to
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meet the need of fresh produce as it is. They
have small stores, but it's not that strong level like
a food swap or a food place food market to
be able to pick up the slack. So that was
what I was trying to make sure that that interconnected
point was to be brought out to.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Yeah, So to that point, like one of the biggest
reasons why we relocated Crenshaw Farmer's Market to I don't
know if to gets to the listeners out there and
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I believe it was.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
We were at the bottom holes Crinchhaw Plaza for I
think close to a decade and then just due to
uncertainty of that space, we decided to relocate. And one
of the prime places that were presented to us was
Crinshaw and Slows and because of the closing of that
routs at that point, I think it had been closed
for I think a year or two because I didn't
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think I can clothes before the before the pandemic. Yeah,
so it was closed by the time we got there,
and so we chose that space to fill that gap
because there was there was no grocery store for so
long once that closed, which is wild the fact that
they would even make that decision in that community with
so many people to serve. And so that was one
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of the biggest reasons why we even chose because to
relocate a market is a really really big decision because
even we only moved two miles up the street and
it's still affecting us through almost three years later, because
that little distance like effects thousands.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
And thousands of people.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Like some people won't go that far because it's not
within either their means or it's just like out of
their their little bubble that they want to travel to.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
So we have to consider a lot. We really redokate
to market.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
But for us, like there were so many things to
think about and that was like one of the core
the core decisions and making us move to that space.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Also point in point out two, just to give a
visual about Crimshawn Slawson and the area of there. Those sidewalks,
those blocks are like what we used to call when
I lived in Texas, those Texas miles, because they are
not small manageable blocks like let's say in Little Tokyo.
The blocks a little bit more manageable. For the population
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in Little Tokyo is like it's a heavier elderly community,
and so you know, to imagine them to walk this
from one point and end of creation to the end
of revelation would be it's more of a notion. And
more importantly too, it deals with the conversation of convenience.
You know, when I was growing up many years ago,
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great now, but I remember there were convenience stores or
places that were easier to get you, that were economical,
fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They were able to do.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But because of the greed and gentrification and all of
the ills of society in many respects, it has been
like a bygone era. Actually, can you give us a
little bit of a primer or refresher on how do
you interconnect with the pieces here?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Yeah? So, actually, I want to talk about a couple
of different things. You were talking about convenience and being
able to get to the market, and so the great
thing about the Crenshaw Farmers Market is we are right
off the metro line, so you can literally get off
the Metro on crenshawn Slawson and then walk across the street.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
And which is recently, yeah, which is recent.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
When I was down, it took a very long time
to get that up, but that's.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yeah, it's very recent, but it does help bring people
to the market. There's also a bus stop directly in
front of the market and so I believe it's the
dash that takes you straight there and it comes every
I believe hour, and so it does add a level
of convenience in terms of being able to add that
accessibility component. Also, I wanted to note a but you
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mentioned earlier about pricing in comparison to grocery stores. And
so one of my fas favorite things that I always
like to highlight about working at the Farmer's Market is
we do we have what's called market match, and so
we do a dollar for dollar match on EBT up
to a certain point at each one of our farmers markets.
And so at Crenshaw specifically, currently we're matching up to
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forty dollars. So if you came to us and you
were like, hey, I want to take forty dollars off
of my ABT card, then we would give you forty
dollars off of your EBT card, plus an additional forty
and twenty of those dollars are strictly for fruits and
vegetables and the other twenty is for anything EBT eligible
at the market. And so we do try and provide
some additional support for people who are unable to, say,
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like go to the grocery store or are unable to
go through other means in order to be able to
get food.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Which is an excellent and brought out too. EBT is
what we call here in Los Angeles. Is in other
places they have it's like the food stamp card or
card that they use that instead of back in the
day where my mom's time, where we used to have
those old fashioned foodstamp books and my mother used to.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Pull out and on the store. So we don't they
don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
We can put on the account computerized gr for the
cash is the general relief portion of it. On that
note too, because like for many unhoused community members, they
don't have a stove, they don't have For me, it
was difficult, and especially you have health considerations. One of
maybe a benefit with dealing with farmers' markets is maybe
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having to a sense of portion control. And this is
what I mean as a diverted person, I have to
eat at a certain point in time, I have to
eat a certain make sure my blood sheckle is stable
where the third of stores, or if I would go
into a place like let's say Rous, I would have
to probably have over an over abundance of food, but
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I can't store it, which helps blo en up the
sugar balloons up the weight. And so whereas if you
could be able to portion control what you have and
a certain way that you can be able to stay
healthy and not have over overextend yourself financially, that's one
of the things I think is a benefit to think
on as well. You don't have to deploy all of
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your funds to a place or you have to price
match it. Costs could be a lot considerably more cheaper,
and your gr money at EBT money can go a
lot farther than it could go into somewhere like places
that I consider that exploits the un housed, like seven elevens,
because those proliferation of those seven elevens are occupied by
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people that make it very difficult for you to be
able to sustain.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yourself health wise.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
But also there's limitations on what you can You can't
use gr.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Funds for hot food. That's another point of contention with me.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So when we come back more with the organizers of
the print Shop Farmers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Mark, welcome back. This is the o Hindus.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Let's jump back into my discussion with the folks at
the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
We can continue talking about SNAP and EBT benefits too,
and I think there's such a personal, you know, perspective
of that and that's where we come from. I think
a lot in our organization of you know, making sure
we're helping individuals and those dollars go back into the
market and are going to those farmers, so you know,
goes back to that point you were talking about where
we really want to support those farmers and so it's
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really a win win and like it supports this whole
group and this you know again local ecosystem which're going
to hear me say that word a lot, the local
food economy, but also when you take a step back
from that, and even if you just you know, I
don't know why you would want to, but if you
want to take the personal out of it, when you're
talking about those snap eb T dollars, and then when
you add market match into that, those dollars are actually multiplied,
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so when they go back into the local food economy,
one dollar actually becomes you know, up to a dollar fifty,
sometimes up to a dollar and eighty cents. So you are,
you're recycling that and strengthening what people can do and
they can go further and you know, make the choices.
And that's something that I love about market match too,
is that it allows people to make some autonomous choices
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and what's best for them. And then on top of that,
you're at the farmer's market, you're making relationships with those vendors,
whether it be you know, the Tai curry or it's
the person who's providing you apples. You're making those relationships.
They're gonna know what you need specifically, so when you
show up the next week, they've got it ready for you.
And that then just goes back into that community wellness
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that's there.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
As someone that's us watching their pennies. If you can
be able to have that relationship with the community and
the farmer's market to be able I won't say haggled,
but be able to they understand your circumstances. And I
know this is from my own personal experience. They work
with you and you can have your to go far.
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That's that's why I've been kind of in that you
have to understand there's a difference where I couldn't do
that and no routes they don't do.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They wouldn't give a flying fig.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I need to hold on to the fifteenth that gr
but if it's that you know, to re evact activated,
this is what the price is is set in stone.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Either you can afford it or you cannot, or keep
it pushing.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So I think that's one of the things particular where
it is so important to have these kinds of community
resources like mutual eight kind of organizations and things like that.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
So absolutely, I mean like our farmers and vendors are
the most generous people that that we know, we love them.
We have a great community. But you know you just
mentioned the community resources, so I want these two to
talk about. Like, we're talking a lot about food and
that is our focus in our mission, but there are
so many community resources that come to the market.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
So yeah, like she was saying, there's so many different
community resources that come to the market. One of the
first ones that comes to mind for me specifically is
our nutrition program. So we do have a nutrition team
out food Access LA that regularly makes time to come
to the market and they'll host classes and show people
how they can take some of the produce that we
actually sell at the market and create meals off of them,
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and so that is really impactful to the community. I've
seen so many people come through and be like, oh
my gosh, I didn't know that I could do that
with like this tomato. I didn't know that I could
make this healthy version of like juice because one time
they made like homemade fruit punch absolutely amazing, and so
just thinking about stuff like that. And then on top
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of that, we also have a lot of community partners
that come into the market and we'll share resources once
a month now Crunchhaw specifically, we're giving away free five
gallon trees and so if someone is like wanting to
bring a tree into their home. They're able to stop
at the market and like pick up a tree and
they'll be able to provide like some shading in their home.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Let's shut out the organization.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
It's Korea Town Youth Center, I believe the name of
the organization specifically for center, Yeah, Koreatown Youth Center. And
then we also have a partnership with Metro who regularly
comes out to the market now and they're providing information
on how to sign up for bus passes and get
people and trans and those are just three of the
different ways that we're able to provide resources and programming
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at the market. But we're regularly working with community partners
across Los Angeles County and to make sure that we're
able to bring in additional resources to the community.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
And it's on top of that just part of the
community well on us is like bringing in community members
on top of that to bring in resources. So Ashley
is doing a really amazing job at Crenshaw just continuously
bringing in those people and they're continuously reaching out to
us too. Because on top of food as a resource
and something that kind of feeds you, like being able
to kind of give other free things to the community
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that's going to kind of serve them other ways is
really important. Also LPL, the Los Angeles Public Library, has
come out and done some really amazing things at the
at the market, which I think is a really awesome
partnership Black Women for Wellness. We really want to start
working with them again. And so just like big and small,
kind of like institutional and not, the market is like
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a really great place to kind of and we reserve
that space for them, you know. And so if you
are a community organization in LA, especially in South LA,
please reach out to us and because we have that
space for you to provide resources to the community. And
then something that's really important for us because that's part
of the market. Food and farmers are what we do,
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but it's also creating a space for a community to
gather and to kind of get resources to improve their lives.
So but also actually kind of did something kind of
sparked in me too when you're talking about nutrition classes
and then you were talking about how, you know, the
unhoused community doesn't have some things to cook on a stove.
So I think it'll be good for us to think
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about how we can incorporate classes or something what type
of things that the market you can prepare without a
stove or with having these other resources that can make
it easy kind of take from the market. So that's
kind of something I think we need to start thinking
about more.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I agree, excellent, Well, I hope you mind if I
take a shift in the conversation. And I wanted to
talk about what's going on Saturday? So what can we
expect going on on Saturdays? So anyone can answer.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
On Saturdays in general or on twenty Saturday seven Saturday. Yeah. No,
So we're actually really really excited. I'm really really excited.
We're celebrating our twentieth anniversary at the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
I have had the luxury of managing the Farmer's market
for a year now and being able to see all
the new vendors and like old vendors and just everyone
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come together to like rally around this special occation has
been really excited for me. We will be having the
Crunchhaw Marching Band from Crunshaw. I will be there performing,
super excited for that. We'll also be having some other
musical acts. We will be having a dance Artistic. DJ
Artistic will be there. He is very famous on Twitch
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if anybody happens to be on that platform. He has
like thousands and thousands of followers, so he's also very
excited to be there. There's going to be a run
happening as a part of this. Was it the Crenshaw
Miles having a run?
Speaker 10 (33:19):
I think South Central Run Social having a community run
starting at nine am or September twenty seventh. So if
you think dud, they're still sign up. So you can
visit our page at Crenshaw FM to get more information
on that.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
And please also visit our page Crenshaw FM and sign
up for our newsletter because we'll continuously be sending out
like emails and information to people about not just this
upcoming twentieth anniversary celebration, but any future activations that we
have at the market.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
There'll also be a Spades freeplay from Love, Peace and Spades.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
What are the community partners at Dancing for the Day.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, so we're going to be hosting a dance class
I mentioned earlier with Old School Skinny, which will be
a lot of fun. That's happening at twelve pm on Saturday.
We will be hearing from some hopeful leave from some
elected officials that will be speaking at the market. We
will be giving away some cake, so I want to
throw that in there. We will be giving away some cake,
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so that should be nice because it's a celebration. You know,
we want to be able to celebrate as much as
we can. We have some merchandise that says Crenshaw on
it for the Farmer's Market. It's going to have like
the twentieth anniversary logo. So we're really really excited for this.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
And this is of course all to commemorate twenty years
in the Crenshaw district. And so I don't think a
lot of people don't realize that the market has been
around for that long, but we have, and we're really
excited to celebrate that. We have a long history in
the community. I don't know if we want to go
into the history, but I'm happy please y yeah, I
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mean so, I mean, I'll go as deep as I know,
because you know, there are people around I can also
shut out who have been part of the legacy of
and Shaw. But the market actually started in Lamur Park
I think in two I mean twenty years ago. Somebody
do the math for me. Two thousand and five, ye.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Yeah, two thousand and five.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
So it actually started in Lamurt Park in front of
Vision Theater. It was there for a few years before
it relocated to the Baldwin Host Cranshaw Plaza, and so
that's kind of where it really got its footings as
a farmer's market. We were there for over a decade
and kind of that's where the market like really grew
into what it is today. A lot of the farmers
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and the food vendors who are still at the market
started with us. I don't know if they started with
us when we're in Lamart Park. I'll have to check
with some of the vendors there, but they have been
with us pretty much since the beginning.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
And for me, that really.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
Shows the community aspect of it, of the farmers market
and just really how important it is.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I guess too, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
I guess it's just I guess it just shows how
amazing the farmer's market is in my mind, because like
it really because once you're like there and you'll be
come a staple, like you just become a part of
the community and so people look forward to seeing you.
But also like there's so many other aspects, you know,
in terms of like your business, like people get used
to like seeing you every week and like actually local
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economy like coming back to that, and so there's just
so many reasons, and I really want to kind of
talk to the folks like what kept.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
You here for so long?
Speaker 10 (36:20):
Like obviously, like I know, like building like a vibe
and a community and a gathering space, and so it's
just it's amazing to have so many vendors who have
been there for so long.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
That's funny that you said that, because I actually did
talk to one of our vendors that I was like,
you've been here for a while, And what he told
me specifically was he actually really just loves the community.
He we were talking. This is around the time Little
Tokyo was opening, and he was like asking me about
having the company he works for like sign up for
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a Little Tokyo too, And I was like, oh, no,
you can't leave me. And he was like, actually, I
would never leave this community like this is my home.
Like those are his exact words, where this is my home.
A lot of our vendors feel that the Crenchhaw Farmers
Market is their home.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
Yeah, I love to share that, and so I think,
like most importantly, like I guess to get to the
point like there are not a lot of farmers' markets
in South Ula, especially in the Crenshaw area, and so
to be able to serve like this space for twenty
years has been is really critical and to be able
to celebrate that is really amazing. And a lot of
the farmers that are with us have been with us
for just as long, and so to be able to
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continue that legacy hopefully and to serve the community in
this way is something that I'm so thankful that we're
able to celebrate, and I'm looking forward to kind of
seeing how else we can help the different types of
communities that are out there in the different ways that
they need. And so now that we're kind of in
our new space, we move from Baldwin Hills to Crenshaw
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and Slawson, which you know, we're still building up that
space and much as smaller space, and so there are
challenges in that in that space, and we hear all
that hear the community out there and what those challenges
are a lot of it has to do with parking,
A lot of it. I mean, there are a lot
of challenges when you move, especially into a smaller space,
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and especially into the place that you weren't before, and
so we're looking forward to, I guess, figuring that out
and seeing how we can better serve the people who
are in that area, especially as they continues to like
rapidly change, And so that for me is going to
be I guess the next episode of the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
All right, Well, this has been a very titillating conversation
and I learned some things that hope by audience as well.
Did I miss anything that you guys going to take
the moment to highlight elucidate our audience with?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
Oh goodness, I do feel like we can talk about
things for hours and hours. But I think, you know
something that Summer brought to my mind while she was talking.
It's just like that resiliency of the farmers that we
just talked about.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
The routes that close.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
But our farmers have been there the whole time, and
through COVID and through ups and downs, and they're still
showing up. So I think it's just like it's such
a celebration of all of that. You know, they are
really the backbone of what makes our farmers market, and
these two ladies also make it happen every week. But
we hope Averredady comes out comes and celebrates with us.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Again, what's happening and what time does it start?
Speaker 9 (39:24):
It starts at ten am. The market will be open
ten am to three pm on Saturday, September twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And where is this going to be?
Speaker 10 (39:32):
Absolutely so address is fifty seven thirty Crenshaw Boulevard. We
are located right next to US Bank and at the
firehouse fifty four parking lot.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
I was just going to say parking is there are
parking options?
Speaker 10 (39:46):
Yeah, so parking is one of the biggest challenges. But
this is LA so we all know that. So yeah,
there is parking, just not a US Bank please. That
is reserved for Usbank customers and in the back for
our vendors. But we do have parking lot that is
behind the market. It is a free parking situation and
we were working on getting some other parking secured and
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so please check out our instagram for updates on that
because we're keeping our fingers crossed that we have secured
extra lot, but that.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Is not confirmed.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
But if it isn't, we do have a lot that
is free and there will be street parking, So we
hope that doesn't deter you from coming out because it's
really going to be a really great celebration with lots
of activities, music, art, and most importantly food and farmers
from our vendors who have been there and they really
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really need your support. That is, Like, I think one
thing that we didn't really drive home is that farmers' markets,
especially like right now, I think, you know, with everything
that's kind of going on, if we want to call
it what it is, we can't, you know, but you know,
with the with the big ugly bill with you know
whatever whatever his name is, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
FDT, all that good stuff.
Speaker 10 (41:01):
Sorry, things are being you know, more affected more than ever,
and we don't know how that's gonna affect our markets.
So it's gonna be it's gonna be critical more than
ever for you guys to come out and support the farmers'
markets because that not only that supports the farmers, the
vocal vendors who are small businesses. We talked a lot
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about the farmers, which obviously we're farmers market, but a
critical aspect of a farmer's market is also are food
vendors who are small business owners in the communities that
they serve to, and those are people who are also
being affected and so they also need your support, and
so the biggest way to do that is to show
up every week to the market. And so that's what
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we're really really hoping, not just on the twenty seventh,
but consistently is what we hope to do. And we
hope to do that by just continuously providing you know,
quality vendors, farmers, programming and resources. And we're always have
an open ear to what you guys need and we
are there every week to listen, so we hope that
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you guys show up.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Also, is the transportation line running as well?
Speaker 6 (42:08):
Yes, the transportation line is running.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
If you want to utilize the transportation instead of worried
about parking, you can avail yourself to that as well.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
So yes, and it's the metro k line. Hyde Park
station a slash Nipsey Hustle station is the exit and
we are right across the street.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Well, this is it.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I look forward to seeing you on the twenty seventh
of September, which is a Saturday at the market and
to see what's really going on and how an impact
of our community is so important. What they say is,
you know, there's no such thing as a good community,
like a connected community. And with that note, I thank
you all for listening.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Thank you, thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Thank you, Thank you so much to Laura, Ashley Suburb
and Jennifer for their time. If you're in the Los
Angeles area, make sure to check out the twentieth year
anniversary of the Printshaw Farmers Market is coming Saturday, September
twenty seventh. The event will be at fifty seven thirty
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Princeshaw Boulevard. And of course, thank you all for listening
to another episode of Wiedion House. If you have a
story you'd like to share, please reach out to me
at wdionhousat gmail dot com or at Whidian House on Instagram.
Until then, may we meet again in the light of understanding.
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Whedian House is a production of iHeartRadio. It is written, hosted,
and created by me Theo Henderson, our producers Jamie Loftus,
Hailly Fager, Katie Fischer, and Lyra Smith.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
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Speaker 3 (43:53):
Engineer is Joel Jerome, and our local art is also
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Speaker 1 (44:00):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 10 (44:07):
Yeahm
Previously on Witian House.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This executive order emboldens the states and cities to follow
the lead right of what this executive order is saying.
So what will be the impact? Just like undoubtedly worse
without question, if more and more people are being brought
to psychiatric hospitals and being committed against their well, this
doesn't get at the root issue. These are ineffective measures
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and then they are deeply harmful. So we are going
to have more trauma, more harm, wasted resources and not
actually solving the problem. If all of that really is
where we land when we're having this conversation, it really
can only further show that this isn't about helping people.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Welcome to Wityan House. I'm your host, Leo Henderson. This
week we're going to tackle two competing movements. First the
violence of language and his weaponization against the unhoused, and
on the other end, the hopeful light of food justice
organizers fighting against this hate as the glue of the
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community keeping everyone fed and connected.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But first on House.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
News, getting one's message out to be understood is key
in any successful communication. Language matters, words matter, and one's
message matters. A vivid example is the death of the
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most reviled rabbit and racist podcaster Charlie Kirk. Kirk was
an unrepentant white supremacist and Christian nationalists that inspired and
fomented a violent ideology which ultimately led to his death.
His hateful language was used to demonize people of color,
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the ULGBQTIA community, women, and the list goes on. The
frightening part of this detestable man's message is it is
becoming normalized. Recently, an aspect the violent language was used
by Fox News anchors about the unhoused community.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They have given billions of dollars to mental health and
the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to
take the programs. A lot of them don't want to
get the health that is necessary. You can't give them
a choice. Either you take the resources that we're going
to give you and or you decide that you're going
to be locked up in jail.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That's the way it has to be.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now, or involuntary lethal injective or something just.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Kill on the kill.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Previously, the Mayor of Lancaster, Raymond Paris, said this about
unhoused people and the use of fitanol.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I could give them the fentanyl, I would I absolutely
would make no mistake about it. Did you have something
you wanted to share with us other than your anger
and your rage?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Well, what kind of a major talks about giving the
homeless fentanyl and you.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Guys don't say anything about it.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
That's a metaphor no metaphor what do you saying that for.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I'm saying, if you want, I do not want the
homeless criminal population who are drug addicted, who are robbing,
raping and murdering our citizens to Maggie in Lancaster and yes,
if I could give this that particular population fentanyl, I
would give them fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
An man.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I'm an equal man man, because I don't want drug
addicts and murdering our citizens.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's evil.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well, then I am in.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
With so much happening with the unhoused community today, it
is easy to adopt this viewpoint, this ideology, because it
starts from the top, from President Trump's executive order all
the way down to Fox News media pundits. It is
an opportune time to remember, if you can demonize a
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group of people, then you can criminalize them. Now is
the time in our communities to speak out, not power
or be bullied from doing what's right. We can't let
fascist win, and that's on House News. When we come back,
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we'll chat with organizers at the Krenshaw Farmers' Market. Welcome
back to Weedian House. I'm Theo Henderson. Recently we've been
talking to about food justice a lot on the show.
Last month I went to Thermo, California and Coachella Valley
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to speak to organizers and participants of a long running
mutual a pop up to provide fresh food and supplies
to their communities. Here is organizer and frequent guests Melissa Ossadero.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I am organizing with the people who literally are the
backbone of our food system. Without them, we literally cannot survive.
And yet they are the last to be thought of
in just the whole construct of this system. What I
see in the fields and the injustice to farm workers,
what I see in our cities, and the injustice with
the unhoused books, it's exactly the same. That violence is
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the same, the system is the same, the other is
the same. Allowing that level of understanding of all the
oppression that's happening in the food system allows us, hopefully,
for me, my hope is to dream better on what
we can do.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This week we're taking a look at a food justice
organization closer to home in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles.
I spoke to organizers with the Crenshaw Farmers' Market ahead
of their twentieth anniversary community Badge this upcoming Saturday, September
twenty seven. For the last two decades, the Crenshaw Farmers
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Market has been a place for people to access.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Healthy food and build community.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And for their big celebration, they're going all out with performances,
family friendly activities, and community leaders speaking. Laura, Ashley, Summer
and Jennifer came into the studio to share more about
the event and the market's ongoing efforts. Here's our chat.
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We have some very special guests in the studios today.
We have an exciting event that's happening on the twenty
seventh of September. And before I get into it or
reveal too much of the details, I want to introduce
our guests, and they're going to introduce themselves and tell
us a little bit about the history of the communities
that they service and what the events is about. So
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before I start off and let me introduce our guests. Today,
we have Summer, Jennifer and we have Ashley also behind
the scenes. If you don't see her, we have Laura
so Ba. Shout out to all of them. So welcome
to Willian House and I thank you all for taking
the time of your busy schedules to educate us and
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to keep us involved and connected into the community.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Thank you for having us. I'm Jennifer Grissom, the executive
director of Food Access. La Crenshaw farmers Market is one
of our nine farmers' markets.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
That we operate.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
We also do a lot of programming around nutrition security
and making sure that people have access to fresh fruits
and vegetables perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How long have you been working with Food Access.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I have been here for just a little over two years,
so sometimes it feels like ten, but it's just been two.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What motivated you to be working into this exciting field?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
So I am very passionate about making sure that everybody
has the access and the knowledge to feed their bodies
in a healthy way. But also understand how much that
impacts our communities and our local food economies and the
wellness of a community. And I know how important those
things are and how overlooked they are many many times.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
As you know, times it's changing in so many ways
consistently with the events earlier. Before we got on studio,
I was mentioning how REDI and House was impacted and
the un the House community was impacted by the pandemic
and the differences how people were facing the pandemic and
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the young house community. We're facing food and security and
food hunger, and I wanted to ask from the un
house perspective, how do you feel that it aligns with
the food access community.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Oh, I think it's very closely aligned. That's a community
that we want to serve if we want to be
able to have relationships with them and foster the relationships
between unhoused and our farmers and vendors that are at
all of our markets. We want them to be able
to take advantage of the programs and the benefits that
are available, and we do. We see that changing a lot,
and it's hard to keep up with what's changing, and
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how do we negotiate what we have to offer and
make sure that it's going to the right places and
to the people who need that, and can further support
those farmers and their work so that we can continue
this cycle of creating these stable food economies.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Most recently I did an episode about von house farm
workers that are responsible for all of our produce and
vegetables from house or on house. If you go to
a restaurant, you're getting produced from this community. If you're
going to the grocery stores and getting the produce from there,
it's from largely directed and from the farms. And here
in California, how can we help make sure that they
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be able to sustain themselves Because with the ice impacted communities.
When I interviewed a lot of the residents there, there's
a lot of shifting priorities. For example, one of the
unhoused families that was talking about their husband and wife
were working, and they had chosen that one person works
and the other person doesn't because in case they get snatched,
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their children will not be an orphaned or without a
parent to be able to support them. These new realities,
which also impacts housing, rent and other things down the road,
are very real considerations. The second thing, particularly out there
in the valley, there are a lot of schools there,
but the schools when as an educator you have to
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have someone that's on the list to be able to
pick up your child. Now they're targeting them and if
you're taking the parents that are coming to pick up
their child that's on the list, the kid cannot be
released where they're going into the system. And that's another
consideration that I don't think a lot of the community
members understand, and so I'm just giving these things out
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just at the top of the head, but I think
it's important to give bear witness to these things that
many of the unhoused farmers are talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
So absolutely we've been having a lot of those conversations too,
and trying to figure out how we as an organization
keep our farm workers safe but also help support them
and continuing to make a living. So we've done some
things like food distributions where we have done it real
low key. We've taken one of our most susceptible markets
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and you know, tried to make it a very safe
space for not only you know, the people who are
visiting the market, but specifically for our farm workers and
people who are our vendors at the market. So there's
a lot of adjusting that's being done and a lot
of listening because there's things that we, you know, we
haven't had to necessarily face head on until recently. So
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it's a big, big obstacle to face and try to
make sure that we're supporting them and keeping them safe
and how do we do that correctly? And so you
know our team has been great about helping addrest that.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, we'll get back with you and I will give
the introduce the rest of the team. Ashley in Summer
welcome and please tell us a little bit about you guys.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Yeah, thank you so much for having us today. My
name is Ashley Clayton. I am the Crenshaw Farmers Market
Manager and so I am there every Saturday rain er
shine in clement weather to support the local community and
make sure that food is accessible to them.
Speaker 10 (12:31):
Hi THEO, thank you so much for having us. My
name is Summer Vernon and I am the senior Manager
of Farmer's Market Operations for Food Access LA and I
oversee all of our South LA farmers markets. We have
four South LA farmers markets which includes Central Avenue Farmers Market,
Crenshaw Farmer's Market, Watswillowbrook Farmers Market and Compton College Farmer's Market.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What days are the Farmer's markets, So the audience if
they would like to drop into sure I can.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Start with our South LA ones. So our South La
Ones will start on Wednesday, so we run all nine
of our farmers' markets run Wednesdays through Sundays, and so
we have Wednesdays, we have WATS Willowbrog Farmers' Markets which
runs from nine am to two pm. That's at the
MLK Outpatient Center and Willowbrook. After that we have the
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Compton College Farmers Market which runs from three to seven
thirty on the Compton College campus. On Thursday, we have
two farmers' markets. We have our Central Avenue Farmers Market
which runs from nine am to two pm and that
actually runs out of the Council District nine Constituent Center
off Central Avenue and forty third. And then we have
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our La River Farmers Market, which is on the edge
of Chinatown and that runs from three to seven thirty
at the LA State Historic Park. And then on Fridays
we have our Echo Park Farmers Market which runs from
three to seven thirty and that is in the Echo
Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. And then on Saturdays we
have two farmers' markets. That is our Cringeon Farmer's Market
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which runs from ten to three pm and that's off
of Cringe and s Lawson and then our brand new
farmer's market, which is our Little Tokyo Farmer's Market which
just opened Labor Day weekend, and that runs from nine
to two pm. And Little Tokyo off I don't know
the adjust for that one yet.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's brand new.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
And then on Sunday we have two farmers' markets. We
have Hollywood Farmer's Market, which is our biggest market and
actually the biggest farmer's market in Los Angeles, and that
runs from eight to one pm off of Selma and
IVR in Hearta, Hollywood. And then we have our Atwater
Village Farmers Market, which is in the Atwater neighborhood of
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LA and that runs at the same time from I
believe it's ninety oh an hour later than Hollywood, which.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Is ninety two.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Okay, what's going to ask you a quick question and
follow the question about the Chinatown one. How long have
you guys have been doing the Chinatown Farmer's Market.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Yeah, so that one actually opened literally I think the
month I started with Food Access LA. So that opened
I think the first I think the end of April
or the beginning of May twenty twenty two. And so
we're coming up I guess three and a half years
of that market coming up on four because that's not
going to be my anniversary, and so yeah, we're coming
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up kind of like on the critical time. I think
for farmers markets, like that's kind of like after the
two three year mark is like when they kind of
start get going, and they you know, in the industry,
they say it takes like up to five years for
like a farmer's market to kind of finally kind of
catch its footing in a community, and so I think
we are just now probably starting to see the kind
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of fruits of the labor that we put into that market.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why is this so important to have farmers markets in
these communities that you have highlighted.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Yeah, it's important to have farmer's markets because we had
to have access to fresh foods and veggies. And I
think when people look at grocery stores, they don't really
understand or some people don't understand like the impacts that
sustainability at the grocery stores I guess have on our economy,
on our sustainability environment because the fruit and the produce
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and the veggies and all those things are coming from
so many different places, and the real benefit of farmer's
markets is community and locality regionality and being able to
kind of serve the people who are in that direct community.
And so the food of the farmer's markets are coming
from the people who the people in that community. It's
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being grown locally regionally, and that is a benefit to
the community at large.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
There is such an importance to having strong, stable local
food economies. A lot of the reasons why you spoke
about earlier that those farmers need that support to keep
growing the food, and if we do not have those
farmers growing food, then we will all be hungry, regardless
of your status in life. So, you know, stabilizing those
communities and then add on to that the health and
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wellness that comes from eating nutrient rich foods that haven't
been traveling for miles or been sitting in a plastic
bag for days and days on end. And we know
there are tons of data points and tons of studies
done that when there are healthy communities, they are going
to do better in all areas of life. And so
you know, we are here to support those farmers and
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make sure that they get support, but also support our
communities making sure that they can be part of that.
And to some degree it's a real active resistance, you know,
to show up and support people who are growing food
with their hands, with their labors, wet and tears. It's
not some machine that's making it. It's not a chemical
that's being pushed out in the shape of a chicken nugget,
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you know, not that you know, if people want to
eat that, that's fine too, But there's just so much
to support and so much goodness that comes from this
cycle of growing food within a community.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We also kind of skipped over, but also the price
to we need to have that conversation, and I was
hoping around it and so I had extrapolated further on
it also because of the food deserts. This is conversation
that being Melissa noticed, particularly when I did briefly stay
around in the South kritch Shall area. They used to
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have on Critshawn's Sloughson they used to have with said croakers.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
But what was this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Rouse and the rouse was considerably different than the rauhs
on Seventh and Flower. And what it did was it
was at one point I was trying to tailor to
use the community, but also because it was struggling because
of gentrification and because of the economic instability, that was
going on in the area, they were not able to
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sustain itself.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And so when me and Melissa were.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Talking about what like with the un house community and
things like that here in Like the second example was
in Chinatown, there was a grocery store at Walmart that
had root there and that closed out. And as more
and more of versus going on, and like a little Tokyo,
there's not necessarily strong stores that will be able to
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meet the need of fresh produce as it is. They
have small stores, but it's not that strong level like
a food swap or a food place food market to
be able to pick up the slack. So that was
what I was trying to make sure that that interconnected
point was to be brought out to.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Yeah, So to that point, like one of the biggest
reasons why we relocated Crenshaw Farmer's Market to I don't
know if to gets to the listeners out there and
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
I believe it was.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
We were at the bottom holes Crinchhaw Plaza for I
think close to a decade and then just due to
uncertainty of that space, we decided to relocate. And one
of the prime places that were presented to us was
Crinshaw and Slows and because of the closing of that
routs at that point, I think it had been closed
for I think a year or two because I didn't
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think I can clothes before the before the pandemic. Yeah,
so it was closed by the time we got there,
and so we chose that space to fill that gap
because there was there was no grocery store for so
long once that closed, which is wild the fact that
they would even make that decision in that community with
so many people to serve. And so that was one
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of the biggest reasons why we even chose because to
relocate a market is a really really big decision because
even we only moved two miles up the street and
it's still affecting us through almost three years later, because
that little distance like effects thousands.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
And thousands of people.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Like some people won't go that far because it's not
within either their means or it's just like out of
their their little bubble that they want to travel to.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
So we have to consider a lot. We really redokate
to market.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
But for us, like there were so many things to
think about and that was like one of the core
the core decisions and making us move to that space.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Also point in point out two, just to give a
visual about Crimshawn Slawson and the area of there. Those sidewalks,
those blocks are like what we used to call when
I lived in Texas, those Texas miles, because they are
not small manageable blocks like let's say in Little Tokyo.
The blocks a little bit more manageable. For the population
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in Little Tokyo is like it's a heavier elderly community,
and so you know, to imagine them to walk this
from one point and end of creation to the end
of revelation would be it's more of a notion. And
more importantly too, it deals with the conversation of convenience.
You know, when I was growing up many years ago,
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great now, but I remember there were convenience stores or
places that were easier to get you, that were economical,
fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They were able to do.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But because of the greed and gentrification and all of
the ills of society in many respects, it has been
like a bygone era. Actually, can you give us a
little bit of a primer or refresher on how do
you interconnect with the pieces here?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Yeah? So, actually, I want to talk about a couple
of different things. You were talking about convenience and being
able to get to the market, and so the great
thing about the Crenshaw Farmers Market is we are right
off the metro line, so you can literally get off
the Metro on crenshawn Slawson and then walk across the street.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
And which is recently, yeah, which is recent.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
When I was down, it took a very long time
to get that up, but that's.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Yeah, it's very recent, but it does help bring people
to the market. There's also a bus stop directly in
front of the market and so I believe it's the
dash that takes you straight there and it comes every
I believe hour, and so it does add a level
of convenience in terms of being able to add that
accessibility component. Also, I wanted to note a but you
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mentioned earlier about pricing in comparison to grocery stores. And
so one of my fas favorite things that I always
like to highlight about working at the Farmer's Market is
we do we have what's called market match, and so
we do a dollar for dollar match on EBT up
to a certain point at each one of our farmers markets.
And so at Crenshaw specifically, currently we're matching up to
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forty dollars. So if you came to us and you
were like, hey, I want to take forty dollars off
of my ABT card, then we would give you forty
dollars off of your EBT card, plus an additional forty
and twenty of those dollars are strictly for fruits and
vegetables and the other twenty is for anything EBT eligible
at the market. And so we do try and provide
some additional support for people who are unable to, say,
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like go to the grocery store or are unable to
go through other means in order to be able to
get food.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Which is an excellent and brought out too. EBT is
what we call here in Los Angeles. Is in other
places they have it's like the food stamp card or
card that they use that instead of back in the
day where my mom's time, where we used to have
those old fashioned foodstamp books and my mother used to.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Pull out and on the store. So we don't they
don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
We can put on the account computerized gr for the
cash is the general relief portion of it. On that
note too, because like for many unhoused community members, they
don't have a stove, they don't have For me, it
was difficult, and especially you have health considerations. One of
maybe a benefit with dealing with farmers' markets is maybe
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having to a sense of portion control. And this is
what I mean as a diverted person, I have to
eat at a certain point in time, I have to
eat a certain make sure my blood sheckle is stable
where the third of stores, or if I would go
into a place like let's say Rous, I would have
to probably have over an over abundance of food, but
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I can't store it, which helps blo en up the
sugar balloons up the weight. And so whereas if you
could be able to portion control what you have and
a certain way that you can be able to stay
healthy and not have over overextend yourself financially, that's one
of the things I think is a benefit to think
on as well. You don't have to deploy all of
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your funds to a place or you have to price
match it. Costs could be a lot considerably more cheaper,
and your gr money at EBT money can go a
lot farther than it could go into somewhere like places
that I consider that exploits the un housed, like seven elevens,
because those proliferation of those seven elevens are occupied by
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people that make it very difficult for you to be
able to sustain.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yourself health wise.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
But also there's limitations on what you can You can't
use gr.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Funds for hot food. That's another point of contention with me.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So when we come back more with the organizers of
the print Shop Farmers.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Mark, welcome back. This is the o Hindus.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Let's jump back into my discussion with the folks at
the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
We can continue talking about SNAP and EBT benefits too,
and I think there's such a personal, you know, perspective
of that and that's where we come from. I think
a lot in our organization of you know, making sure
we're helping individuals and those dollars go back into the
market and are going to those farmers, so you know,
goes back to that point you were talking about where
we really want to support those farmers and so it's
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really a win win and like it supports this whole
group and this you know again local ecosystem which're going
to hear me say that word a lot, the local
food economy, but also when you take a step back
from that, and even if you just you know, I
don't know why you would want to, but if you
want to take the personal out of it, when you're
talking about those snap eb T dollars, and then when
you add market match into that, those dollars are actually multiplied,
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so when they go back into the local food economy,
one dollar actually becomes you know, up to a dollar fifty,
sometimes up to a dollar and eighty cents. So you are,
you're recycling that and strengthening what people can do and
they can go further and you know, make the choices.
And that's something that I love about market match too,
is that it allows people to make some autonomous choices
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and what's best for them. And then on top of that,
you're at the farmer's market, you're making relationships with those vendors,
whether it be you know, the Tai curry or it's
the person who's providing you apples. You're making those relationships.
They're gonna know what you need specifically, so when you
show up the next week, they've got it ready for you.
And that then just goes back into that community wellness
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that's there.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
As someone that's us watching their pennies. If you can
be able to have that relationship with the community and
the farmer's market to be able I won't say haggled,
but be able to they understand your circumstances. And I
know this is from my own personal experience. They work
with you and you can have your to go far.
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That's that's why I've been kind of in that you
have to understand there's a difference where I couldn't do
that and no routes they don't do.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They wouldn't give a flying fig.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I need to hold on to the fifteenth that gr
but if it's that you know, to re evact activated,
this is what the price is is set in stone.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Either you can afford it or you cannot, or keep
it pushing.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So I think that's one of the things particular where
it is so important to have these kinds of community
resources like mutual eight kind of organizations and things like that.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
So absolutely, I mean like our farmers and vendors are
the most generous people that that we know, we love them.
We have a great community. But you know you just
mentioned the community resources, so I want these two to
talk about. Like, we're talking a lot about food and
that is our focus in our mission, but there are
so many community resources that come to the market.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
So yeah, like she was saying, there's so many different
community resources that come to the market. One of the
first ones that comes to mind for me specifically is
our nutrition program. So we do have a nutrition team
out food Access LA that regularly makes time to come
to the market and they'll host classes and show people
how they can take some of the produce that we
actually sell at the market and create meals off of them,
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and so that is really impactful to the community. I've
seen so many people come through and be like, oh
my gosh, I didn't know that I could do that
with like this tomato. I didn't know that I could
make this healthy version of like juice because one time
they made like homemade fruit punch absolutely amazing, and so
just thinking about stuff like that. And then on top
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of that, we also have a lot of community partners
that come into the market and we'll share resources once
a month now Crunchhaw specifically, we're giving away free five
gallon trees and so if someone is like wanting to
bring a tree into their home. They're able to stop
at the market and like pick up a tree and
they'll be able to provide like some shading in their home.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Let's shut out the organization.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
It's Korea Town Youth Center, I believe the name of
the organization specifically for center, Yeah, Koreatown Youth Center. And
then we also have a partnership with Metro who regularly
comes out to the market now and they're providing information
on how to sign up for bus passes and get
people and trans and those are just three of the
different ways that we're able to provide resources and programming
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at the market. But we're regularly working with community partners
across Los Angeles County and to make sure that we're
able to bring in additional resources to the community.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
And it's on top of that just part of the
community well on us is like bringing in community members
on top of that to bring in resources. So Ashley
is doing a really amazing job at Crenshaw just continuously
bringing in those people and they're continuously reaching out to
us too. Because on top of food as a resource
and something that kind of feeds you, like being able
to kind of give other free things to the community
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that's going to kind of serve them other ways is
really important. Also LPL, the Los Angeles Public Library, has
come out and done some really amazing things at the
at the market, which I think is a really awesome
partnership Black Women for Wellness. We really want to start
working with them again. And so just like big and small,
kind of like institutional and not, the market is like
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a really great place to kind of and we reserve
that space for them, you know. And so if you
are a community organization in LA, especially in South LA,
please reach out to us and because we have that
space for you to provide resources to the community. And
then something that's really important for us because that's part
of the market. Food and farmers are what we do,
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but it's also creating a space for a community to
gather and to kind of get resources to improve their lives.
So but also actually kind of did something kind of
sparked in me too when you're talking about nutrition classes
and then you were talking about how, you know, the
unhoused community doesn't have some things to cook on a stove.
So I think it'll be good for us to think
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about how we can incorporate classes or something what type
of things that the market you can prepare without a
stove or with having these other resources that can make
it easy kind of take from the market. So that's
kind of something I think we need to start thinking
about more.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I agree, excellent, Well, I hope you mind if I
take a shift in the conversation. And I wanted to
talk about what's going on Saturday? So what can we
expect going on on Saturdays? So anyone can answer.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
On Saturdays in general or on twenty Saturday seven Saturday. Yeah. No,
So we're actually really really excited. I'm really really excited.
We're celebrating our twentieth anniversary at the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
I have had the luxury of managing the Farmer's market
for a year now and being able to see all
the new vendors and like old vendors and just everyone
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come together to like rally around this special occation has
been really excited for me. We will be having the
Crunchhaw Marching Band from Crunshaw. I will be there performing,
super excited for that. We'll also be having some other
musical acts. We will be having a dance Artistic. DJ
Artistic will be there. He is very famous on Twitch
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if anybody happens to be on that platform. He has
like thousands and thousands of followers, so he's also very
excited to be there. There's going to be a run
happening as a part of this. Was it the Crenshaw
Miles having a run?
Speaker 10 (33:19):
I think South Central Run Social having a community run
starting at nine am or September twenty seventh. So if
you think dud, they're still sign up. So you can
visit our page at Crenshaw FM to get more information
on that.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
And please also visit our page Crenshaw FM and sign
up for our newsletter because we'll continuously be sending out
like emails and information to people about not just this
upcoming twentieth anniversary celebration, but any future activations that we
have at the market.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
There'll also be a Spades freeplay from Love, Peace and Spades.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
What are the community partners at Dancing for the Day.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, so we're going to be hosting a dance class
I mentioned earlier with Old School Skinny, which will be
a lot of fun. That's happening at twelve pm on Saturday.
We will be hearing from some hopeful leave from some
elected officials that will be speaking at the market. We
will be giving away some cake, so I want to
throw that in there. We will be giving away some cake,
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so that should be nice because it's a celebration. You know,
we want to be able to celebrate as much as
we can. We have some merchandise that says Crenshaw on
it for the Farmer's Market. It's going to have like
the twentieth anniversary logo. So we're really really excited for this.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
And this is of course all to commemorate twenty years
in the Crenshaw district. And so I don't think a
lot of people don't realize that the market has been
around for that long, but we have, and we're really
excited to celebrate that. We have a long history in
the community. I don't know if we want to go
into the history, but I'm happy please y yeah, I
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mean so, I mean, I'll go as deep as I know,
because you know, there are people around I can also
shut out who have been part of the legacy of
and Shaw. But the market actually started in Lamur Park
I think in two I mean twenty years ago. Somebody
do the math for me. Two thousand and five, ye.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Yeah, two thousand and five.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
So it actually started in Lamurt Park in front of
Vision Theater. It was there for a few years before
it relocated to the Baldwin Host Cranshaw Plaza, and so
that's kind of where it really got its footings as
a farmer's market. We were there for over a decade
and kind of that's where the market like really grew
into what it is today. A lot of the farmers
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and the food vendors who are still at the market
started with us. I don't know if they started with
us when we're in Lamart Park. I'll have to check
with some of the vendors there, but they have been
with us pretty much since the beginning.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
And for me, that really.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
Shows the community aspect of it, of the farmers market
and just really how important it is.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I guess too, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
I guess it's just I guess it just shows how
amazing the farmer's market is in my mind, because like
it really because once you're like there and you'll be
come a staple, like you just become a part of
the community and so people look forward to seeing you.
But also like there's so many other aspects, you know,
in terms of like your business, like people get used
to like seeing you every week and like actually local
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economy like coming back to that, and so there's just
so many reasons, and I really want to kind of
talk to the folks like what kept.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
You here for so long?
Speaker 10 (36:20):
Like obviously, like I know, like building like a vibe
and a community and a gathering space, and so it's
just it's amazing to have so many vendors who have
been there for so long.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
That's funny that you said that, because I actually did
talk to one of our vendors that I was like,
you've been here for a while, And what he told
me specifically was he actually really just loves the community.
He we were talking. This is around the time Little
Tokyo was opening, and he was like asking me about
having the company he works for like sign up for
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a Little Tokyo too, And I was like, oh, no,
you can't leave me. And he was like, actually, I
would never leave this community like this is my home.
Like those are his exact words, where this is my home.
A lot of our vendors feel that the Crenchhaw Farmers
Market is their home.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
Yeah, I love to share that, and so I think,
like most importantly, like I guess to get to the
point like there are not a lot of farmers' markets
in South Ula, especially in the Crenshaw area, and so
to be able to serve like this space for twenty
years has been is really critical and to be able
to celebrate that is really amazing. And a lot of
the farmers that are with us have been with us
for just as long, and so to be able to
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continue that legacy hopefully and to serve the community in
this way is something that I'm so thankful that we're
able to celebrate, and I'm looking forward to kind of
seeing how else we can help the different types of
communities that are out there in the different ways that
they need. And so now that we're kind of in
our new space, we move from Baldwin Hills to Crenshaw
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and Slawson, which you know, we're still building up that
space and much as smaller space, and so there are
challenges in that in that space, and we hear all
that hear the community out there and what those challenges
are a lot of it has to do with parking,
A lot of it. I mean, there are a lot
of challenges when you move, especially into a smaller space,
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and especially into the place that you weren't before, and
so we're looking forward to, I guess, figuring that out
and seeing how we can better serve the people who
are in that area, especially as they continues to like
rapidly change, And so that for me is going to
be I guess the next episode of the Crenshaw Farmers Market.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
All right, Well, this has been a very titillating conversation
and I learned some things that hope by audience as well.
Did I miss anything that you guys going to take
the moment to highlight elucidate our audience with?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
Oh goodness, I do feel like we can talk about
things for hours and hours. But I think, you know
something that Summer brought to my mind while she was talking.
It's just like that resiliency of the farmers that we
just talked about.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
The routes that close.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
But our farmers have been there the whole time, and
through COVID and through ups and downs, and they're still
showing up. So I think it's just like it's such
a celebration of all of that. You know, they are
really the backbone of what makes our farmers market, and
these two ladies also make it happen every week. But
we hope Averredady comes out comes and celebrates with us.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Again, what's happening and what time does it start?
Speaker 9 (39:24):
It starts at ten am. The market will be open
ten am to three pm on Saturday, September twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And where is this going to be?
Speaker 10 (39:32):
Absolutely so address is fifty seven thirty Crenshaw Boulevard. We
are located right next to US Bank and at the
firehouse fifty four parking lot.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
I was just going to say parking is there are
parking options?
Speaker 10 (39:46):
Yeah, so parking is one of the biggest challenges. But
this is LA so we all know that. So yeah,
there is parking, just not a US Bank please. That
is reserved for Usbank customers and in the back for
our vendors. But we do have parking lot that is
behind the market. It is a free parking situation and
we were working on getting some other parking secured and
(40:08):
so please check out our instagram for updates on that
because we're keeping our fingers crossed that we have secured
extra lot, but that.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Is not confirmed.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
But if it isn't, we do have a lot that
is free and there will be street parking, So we
hope that doesn't deter you from coming out because it's
really going to be a really great celebration with lots
of activities, music, art, and most importantly food and farmers
from our vendors who have been there and they really
(40:38):
really need your support. That is, Like, I think one
thing that we didn't really drive home is that farmers' markets,
especially like right now, I think, you know, with everything
that's kind of going on, if we want to call
it what it is, we can't, you know, but you know,
with the with the big ugly bill with you know
whatever whatever his name is, you know.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
FDT, all that good stuff.
Speaker 10 (41:01):
Sorry, things are being you know, more affected more than ever,
and we don't know how that's gonna affect our markets.
So it's gonna be it's gonna be critical more than
ever for you guys to come out and support the farmers'
markets because that not only that supports the farmers, the
vocal vendors who are small businesses. We talked a lot
(41:22):
about the farmers, which obviously we're farmers market, but a
critical aspect of a farmer's market is also are food
vendors who are small business owners in the communities that
they serve to, and those are people who are also
being affected and so they also need your support, and
so the biggest way to do that is to show
up every week to the market. And so that's what
(41:42):
we're really really hoping, not just on the twenty seventh,
but consistently is what we hope to do. And we
hope to do that by just continuously providing you know,
quality vendors, farmers, programming and resources. And we're always have
an open ear to what you guys need and we
are there every week to listen, so we hope that
(42:04):
you guys show up.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Also, is the transportation line running as well?
Speaker 6 (42:08):
Yes, the transportation line is running.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
If you want to utilize the transportation instead of worried
about parking, you can avail yourself to that as well.
Speaker 10 (42:15):
So yes, and it's the metro k line. Hyde Park
station a slash Nipsey Hustle station is the exit and
we are right across the street.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Well, this is it.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
I look forward to seeing you on the twenty seventh
of September, which is a Saturday at the market and
to see what's really going on and how an impact
of our community is so important. What they say is,
you know, there's no such thing as a good community,
like a connected community. And with that note, I thank
you all for listening.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Thank you, thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Thank you, Thank you so much to Laura, Ashley Suburb
and Jennifer for their time. If you're in the Los
Angeles area, make sure to check out the twentieth year
anniversary of the Printshaw Farmers Market is coming Saturday, September
twenty seventh. The event will be at fifty seven thirty
(43:13):
Princeshaw Boulevard. And of course, thank you all for listening
to another episode of Wiedion House. If you have a
story you'd like to share, please reach out to me
at wdionhousat gmail dot com or at Whidian House on Instagram.
Until then, may we meet again in the light of understanding.
(43:37):
Whedian House is a production of iHeartRadio. It is written, hosted,
and created by me Theo Henderson, our producers Jamie Loftus,
Hailly Fager, Katie Fischer, and Lyra Smith.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Our editor is Adam Watt, our.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
Engineer is Joel Jerome, and our local art is also
by Katie Fischer.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 10 (44:07):
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