Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State and local officials are collaborating to provide information that can help launch a Starkville Community Market next spring.
A Dec. 3 public meeting will explain to potential vendors the concepts for the market, available resources within the MSU Extension Service and the success of similar ventures such as the state Department of Agriculture and Commerce Farmers' Market in Jackson, said Jeremiah Dumas, a university assistant research professor and one of the organizers.
The 7 p.m. program in the Bost Extension Center is sponsored by MSU's GeoResources Institute and Community Action Team, along with and the Greater Starkville Development Partnership.
"We anticipate the opening of a Community Market downtown in 2008, and we want to involve as many potential vendors as possible in selling produce and crafts," Dumas said.
For more information, contact Dumas at 662-325-3852.