Support food justice, access and healthy living at Phat Beets Flea Market/Bazaar - this Saturday Aug. 27!

Phat Beets Farmer's Market

Phat Beets Farmer's Market

Do you support food justice, food access and healthy living? Do you want to sell your stuff in a cool community environment or buy stuff from local people?

This Saturday, Aug. 27, Phat Beets Produce is inviting new vendors and artisans to its Flea Market and Bazaar, which will co-exist alongside the North Oakland Farmer's Market at Arlington Medical Center, 5715 Market St.

Booths are affordable, too, starting at $5 a pop.

Consider the fact that this volunteer-driven group began as an effort to make healthy food more easily accessed by families with ill children. Max Cadji, Dr. Jenifer Matthews and Brett Benner started the first Farmer's Market in the parking lot of Children's Hospital, gave out some vouchers to families there and made a point to accept WIC and EBT.

  • This week, in addition to the flea and the Farmer's markets, Phat Beets will offer:

    •    A vermi-composting workshop (utilizing red worms to eliminate waste rather than manage it)
    •   A cooking demonstration by Bauman College graduates
    •   Sets by dj un.d.fine (soul, hiphop, jazz and funk)


Are you hella hearting Oakland even more yet?

About

Tehea Robie is a contributing writer to Oakland Local, a novelist and a spoken word artist. She loves genre bending, gender benders and interactive media tools. She was a finalist for the 2005 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers; she's been published in Rad Dad, Five Fingers Review, Controlled Burn and various sites online. She composes her poems by heart, without writing them down and has been featured at venues all around the Bay, such as the 2009 Nectarena stage at San Francisco Pride, I Am A Man Fundraiser and ShePeoples. Tehea was raised by an exquisite, fierce, working-poor mother. She received her MFA in Writing and Consciousness.