The Farmers Market will have 60 bowls from Empty Bowls on Saturday (9 to noon). For a $25 donation, you get a handmade ceramic bowl. Then you can pick up some soup to go in it from Phoenix Fired Art, 1603 S. Main Street, Joplin, from 11 to 1:30 and 5 to 7:30 on Thursday, November 16th.
Why buy a bowl? Because
you get a beautiful piece of art, a delicious meal and support your neighbors
in need. Funds raised are split between
Crosslines, Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army, Watered Gardens and the Webb City
Farmers Market.
Last year, the project raised over $22,000. With their share, the farmers market
partnered with Feed the Heart food pantry in Carterville, providing fresh
produce twice a month to 120 low income families during the summer. The market also did a pilot WIC project that
allowed WIC recipients to choose $10 worth of produce, dairy products or meat
from the market once a week from June through mid-August. WIC (Women, Infants and Children) provides
basic nutritional foods to very low income children under the age of five and
expectant and new mother so the children have a healthier diet. However, since Missouri is one of seven
states in the Union that refuses federal funds for WIC at farmers markets, the
market created it’s own WIC program. WIC
moms told the market repeatedly that the market’s WIC pilot program was the
only way they could afford to put fresh fruits and vegetables on the table for
their children.
The food on November 16th will be provided by
Blackthorn Pizza & Pub, Club 1201, Club 609, Crabby’s Seafood Bar &
Grill, Eagle Drive In, Festival Mexican Restaurant, Gayle O’Hare, Granny
Shaffer’s, Han the Sushi Man, Instant Karma, Kinnaree Thai Cuisine, Orient
Express, Panera Bread Bakery-Café, Schlotzky’s, Suzanne’s Natural Foods,
Tropicana Bar & Grill, The Bruncheonette, and Widler’s Steakhouse. For more information, call 417 437-9281.
