Sunday HOPE Farmers Market Gets New Home in Austin
October 22, 2009HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere), an international non-profit organization that seeks to promote peace and education, has found a permanent weekly home for the Sunday HOPE Farmers Market in Austin. Located at 414 Waller St. Austin, TX 78702, the Sunday HOPE Farmers Market is a “a weekly community gathering space where local farmers, artisans, community groups, families, and urban consumers can find fresh foods, community programs, artistic creations, agricultural education and wellness workshops. This unique weekly gathering space will be a platform to introduce local artists and Austin residents to surrounding area farms, healthy lifestyle companies, education in the arts and local community volunteer programs.
In addition to local farmers and prepared foods, the market will include student DJs from Austin AMP, bike repair corners, yoga workshops from Empower Yoga, cooking classes from East Side Show Room, sustainable agriculture and landscaping from Big Red Sun and host free space for other non-profits and community groups as well as promote healthy living for local artists.”
Known as Pine Street Station, the Farmers Market location has been the home and studio of legendary glass artist and painter Reji Thomas for over 25 years. HOPE officially expanded to Austin in May 2009 and began working with Graphic Glass Studios on ideas for community gatherings and artists workshops. The market is open from 10AM – 3PM this Sunday and is providing free coffee if you bring your own mug. I’ve never been, but it sounds like a place worth checking out. See you there.
The HOPE Farmers Market is a project brought to the Austin community by the HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign, Finca Pura Vida, Daily Juice, Cafe Mundi, Graphic Glass Studio, Big Red Sun, Empower Yoga, Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill, Jewel Magazine, Austin AMP and HOPE Events Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3).
