Hope you are all doing well. So, ’tis be the season to be thankful. For a few times this year, while the owner was either doing another market or on a business trip, I was asked to help out 2 different small businesses at the same time by doing a few Sundays at a different farmers’ market called The Farmers’ & Artisans’ Market at Merrick Park (aka Shops at Merrick Park) [named after George Edgar Merrick] hosted by Florida Fresh Markets. If I had to explain what it was like being there, I would say it like this: what is the TV show (What Would You Do?) and the movie Get Out became reality where no one recorded what happened? Long story short — Imagine being the only black vendor in an all-Hispanic farmers market…whose city was built by black people. In this multi-layered blog post, I will share my experience there and how I felt being there.
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