REGENERATIVE ACTION

Organizing For Mercado Verde

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Puerto Jiménez, Osa Peninsula - Costa Rica
dates
April 12 to June 28, 2025
participants
18
objective
Providing information and decision making flows among farmers market vendors

while running a weekly farmer’s market is relatively straightforward, in order to grow it and deepen it, there needs to be time and space to invite those most deeply invested in its success and those most intimate with its strengths and limitations, to come together and plan together. We developed this bi-monthly process for these reasons and over time have been experimenting with methods of decision making, information flow and engagement. One of the most useful lessons we have learned and learned how to navigate in these processes is finding balance between the left hemisphere desire to “accomplish” with the right hemisphere push to focus on “relationality”

IMPACTS

  • - Engaged in bimonthly organizing meetings among farmers market vendors to encourage greater agency and ownership over organizing
  • - Having a regular rhythm for joining together as a community allows for ideas and plans to surface, be expressed and potentially be executed on.
  • - - By engaging in loosely structured meeting spaces, those with little familiarity with these types of structures build their capacity to engage.

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