21.1% I’ve heard negative things about the Market Example: I feel sad to say this, the City is meddling the market and the atmosphere started to feel like business only, no more spirit. It disrupts traffic and create major congestion downtown. They run off people who make food before your eyes but allow vendors from the far corners of the northwest. There is constantly an issue about excluding someone from the market for free speech issues, playing a guitar in the wrong place, or making food with the wrong ingredients. Dogs continue to be a problem and the market opens and closes too early. 16. What is one thing the Moscow Farmers Market could do to get you to become a shopper? dogs back into the Market. See 13. I come about 4 times a season. I am out of town a lot during Market time or I would come more often. Move it back to the Jackson's Street Parking lot. Stop picking fights with people who want to be a part of the market. Stop trying to run off people who talk about the wrong issue, in the wrong spot. Stop fighting about walking a dog on Main Street, on the "wrong" sidewalk. Be an event for everyone and stop trying to run off people you disagree with. Nothing I used to go more to the market but since the ordinance was passed last year regarding dogs I have stopped coming. At first I would still go and just visit businesses on main street, listen to music, and have someone hold the dog while I went into the market, but since it moved I haven't felt like I could go down as I used to. I understood not taking my dog into the food areas, but after they were forbidden everywhere and then the market moved, I just avoid the whole area on Saturdays. Afternoon/evening hours. already shop! extended hours and more seating areas with music and performances More vendors. More for families with small children. More prepared foods and drinks available. remain open beyond noon–1 Keep dogs and pets away. Start at 9 and go to 1 instead of opening at 8 and being done (for the most part) by noon. Many times by the time I get there it is closing up, even as soon as 12.
21.1% I’ve heard negative things about the Market Example: I feel sad to say this, the City is meddling the market and the atmosphere started to feel like business only, no more spirit. It disrupts traffic and create major congestion downtown. They run off people who make food before your eyes but allow vendors from the far corners of the northwest. There is constantly an issue about excluding someone from the market for free speech issues, playing a guitar in the wrong place, or making food with the wrong ingredients. Dogs continue to be a problem and the market opens and closes too early. 16. What is one thing the Moscow Farmers Market could do to get you to become a shopper? dogs back into the Market. See 13. I come about 4 times a season. I am out of town a lot during Market time or I would come more often. Move it back to the Jackson's Street Parking lot. Stop picking fights with people who want to be a part of the market. Stop trying to run off people who talk about the wrong issue, in the wrong spot. Stop fighting about walking a dog on Main Street, on the "wrong" sidewalk. Be an event for everyone and stop trying to run off people you disagree with. Nothing I used to go more to the market but since the ordinance was passed last year regarding dogs I have stopped coming. At first I would still go and just visit businesses on main street, listen to music, and have someone hold the dog while I went into the market, but since it moved I haven't felt like I could go down as I used to. I understood not taking my dog into the food areas, but after they were forbidden everywhere and then the market moved, I just avoid the whole area on Saturdays. Afternoon/evening hours. already shop! extended hours and more seating areas with music and performances More vendors. More for families with small children. More prepared foods and drinks available. remain open beyond noon–1 Keep dogs and pets away. Start at 9 and go to 1 instead of opening at 8 and being done (for the most part) by noon. Many times by the time I get there it is closing up, even as soon as 12.