- Dates
- 2020-09-09 – 2020-09-25
- Kind
- Farmers market
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- agriculturecommercefoodwayscommunitycovid-19
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
September 2020 forum notices document small-scale local food sales around the Beaver Island market: bread and bagels, freshly picked shiitakes, and locally grown apples. The notices also preserve one seller’s account that the short season and pandemic health mandates made market attendance difficult.
Evidence limits
These are seller announcements and participant comments. They preserve useful evidence about advertised local foodways and prices, but do not establish the full vendor roster, sales volume, market attendance, crop yields, or whether every advertised sale occurred.
Sources
- Helene announced a downtown sale of bread near Daddy Frank’s on Kings Highway at 1 p.m. until sold out. This is a direct seller notice of intended availability, not a sales or attendance record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015634
- Helene announced sourdough bread and bagels at the downtown market; a reply mentioned freshly picked shiitakes from another seller. The posts document advertised offerings and a participant report, not a complete vendor list or verified sales.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015657
- A grower advertised Honeycrisp apples, cider/applesauce/pie use, possible you-pick access, and a stated price of $50 per bushel; a participant reported that Golden Delicious did well and Gala did less well. These are firsthand local food and price observations, not a crop census or market-wide price series.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015641
- Helene thanked customers for supporting her bread sales and attributed difficulty attending the market to the short season and health mandates, saying she expected to return in late spring. This is a seller’s retrospective account, not an attendance or revenue measure.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015693
- A participant sought the local pepper-jelly seller to return jars, mentioning a jar/lid shortage; a reply identified the seller as Nancy Frazee. This documents a small-scale market exchange and reported packaging constraint, not a market-wide supply study or independent identification of the seller’s business.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015614
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island market notices document bread, apples, and mushrooms, September 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-farmers-market-september-2020/, accessed [date], citing Bread Lady, “Location of the Bread lady 9/10/20 Thursday,” Beaver Island Forum, September 9, 2020. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).
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