On Thursday Zach did some research on other farmerʻs markets to get some ideas for our own farmers market. One cool idea that the kailua farmerʻs market has is that bio-compostable utensils and plates only. We want to try to implement this and try to get all vendors to attempt to stay away from plastics, or at the very least using only recycled plastics.
Related to our next farmers market, weʻre trying to get more vendors and improve our floor plan at the moment. Soon weʻll be getting feedback from the vendors at our first farmers market that. Hopefully thatʻll show us what we need to improve on for future farmerʻs markets.
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Today, we sent out a mahalo email to all the vendors who participated. We also began to plan for a date for June for our next Farmers Market, we are hopping for June 23. An email was sent to the vendors who were at this first one and they are all excited to return in June. Lots of work was put into the market and we are finally able to take a quick breather. We are enjoying some time to relax and reflect of what we did good and things we can improve for the ones in the future.
Today in class, Coach Chris talked about the importance of continuing our projects and getting them deployed especially with our due dates coming so soon. He also talked about the urgency of working on our final presentations, final papers, and deploying our projects. My group has already deployed our project as of Sunday and our final presentations and papers are basically what we've been sharing with the teachers with the addition of the data and experiences from the farmer's market. He also mentioned that there is always work to be done, whether we deployed our project or not. Although I wasn't able to be there on Sunday I heard that the farmer's market was a success and that my group pursued through adversity. I heard that vendors were pulling out at midnight the night before, a food truck broke down at maingate and vendors didn't have tents. The solution to the vendors were to put them under the covered area since it was raining. Coach Chris also told me Papa Lens had ran out of food which in my eyes showed that it was really a success and that people came and enjoyed the vendors, food, entertainment and experiencing our schools first ever student ran and organized farmer's market. Chef Dean also sent us an email congratulating us on a job well done as well as other vendors that are interested in joining our next market. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be there on Sunday due to the fact that I was on a volleyball trip although I am very proud of my group. I know this task wasn't easy to begin with and me being there didn't make it any easier although I am so proud of their accomplishments and I want to congratulate them for doing such a great job. I hope that we are able to have another one which I am able to attend.
Today was the day of the farmerʻs market and all things considered it was great. Our call time for the Farmers Market was 5:45. Once we got there we began to help setting up. At first not many vendors showed up on time. At one point there was only about 2-3 vendors for like 20-30 minutes. Finally at around 7:20-ish many of the vendors showed up. Me and Micah then began setting up the entertainment equipment and tent, while Trin helped the vendors. Once 8 oʻclock came we began the farmers market with music from ʻOlauniu and slowly people began to come. At first it was a small number but people would slowly trickle in.
Throughout the day the weather was very inconsistent. In the early morning hours before the farmers market started it was gloomy and cloudy. About 20 minutes before the farmers market started it began to drizzle. As the farmers market started it began to pour down HARD. The rain began falling in huge drops and did not let up for a solid 20 minutes. After about another 45 minutes of drizzling the sun finally came out. And just like the beginning, at the end of the farmers market the rain came down again. After that we helped our vendors pack up and left. All in all this farmers market was a success. We were expecting somewhere between 100-200 people, but we actually received aroujd 250 people, which was a welcomed surprise. Weʻd like to thank Kumu Blake, Mrs. Alison Leary, Kekoa Schatz, Trinityʻs family, and everyone that came and supported us in our first Farmers Market As our farmerʻs market nearly approaches, our group has just been solidifying all of our details. Posters, brochures, fliers, etc. have been printed out and are in the process to be prepared for Sunday such as folding the brochures. We have been officially approved by our headmaster Dr. Chun to continue our farmer's market production even though majority of the vendors do not have proof of insurance. Majority of our farmers confirmed that they will be there on Sunday.Today Zach and Trinity met with the head master and the .... We presented our powerpoint and talked about what our goals and mission was. We were able to tell them what we were doing and to get feedback and ideas from them. They gave us some great suggestions such as telling the families that live on campus about this event. They also talked about one of the halau that practices on campus, and possibly contact them about preforming at a future event. They were so proud of us, and gave us a boost of confidence that we needed for this weekend. They are hopeful to see this event happen again in the future. Today in class Coach Chris talked about how every person in every group really needs to keep doing work on this project even when we don't have him because our deadlines are approaching soon. Our farmer's market is officially in 5 days and it's been a very stressful time as it approaches. Micah and Trinity are currently sick and weren't able to be in class although Chloe and Zach are continuing to finish everything. Chloe has finished the brochure and is just waiting to add the site plan. We are working on printing out samples to see if there is anything we need to change. Zach has finished the restroom signs, handicap restroom signs as well as the first aid signs. He is going to SPC during class in order to print them out and get them picture ready for Sunday. An example of one of the restroom signs as well as the practice brochure is below.
Today during lunch we met with Coach Chris in the mala. We discussed the schedule for the rest of the week as well as deadlines for the things we need to make sure gets done and our predicted schedule for Sunday. Our schedule for the rest of the week is to send out an email today asking for confirmation from the vendors, then tomorrow we will send out another email with more details such as the site plan, where each vendor is going and the groups in which the vendors will be able to enter and unload their products. Our schedule also includes our meeting with Dr. Chun and the po'o kumu from the different campuses on Thursday at the Pauahi Building from around 7:30 am to 8:30 am. Then on Friday during period 6 a news cast will be coming in to record and broadcast what we've been doing while advertising our farmer's market to the public. Tomorrow either during period 6 or lunch/homeroom we hope to meet with an additional kumu to discuss some extra things. Our signage deadline is Thursday at the very latest. Our schedule for Sunday includes that the set up crew (our group, Coach Chris, the trash group and parents) hope to be at the elementary before 6 am to assure we have time to get everything done and under control before the chaos starts when the vendors arrive. We discussed the amount of tents and tables we will need both for the entertainment and our booth. We also talked about getting water jugs to be sustainable which would provide drinks for our booth and the entertainers. Everything is coming so fast and we've really been focusing on the schedule and plan we hope to execute. On that day anything can happen and we need to prepare ourselves for the worst.
Trinity has been emailing all the vendors to get a confirmation. She has also been emailing them the SOP so they understand all the rules. Trinity has also been working very hard to sent out and receive all the paperwork required which is the green pass (for food), GE tax license, ASC form, and insurance. We've been finding out that a lot of the vendors (if not all) don't have insurance or proof of insurance. This may be a problem since Kamehameha Schools is a multi-billion dollar association which we can't risk getting sued. Due to the fact majority of our vendors do not have insurance we need to request and talk with Dr. Chun to see if it's possible we take the risk for this one event. If we continue to put this on, we will definitely require them to get insurance in order to provide safety for our school. Hopefully he says yes because if not then we wouldn't be able to do the farmer's market this week and we've been working so hard to make this production become reality.
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