Whiteaker Community Market — Local services in Eugene

So excited to have found this market yesterday…i had no idea it was there! the vendors were high quality & the location lovely & less crowds & less a$$holes than the eugene sat market 🙄 i was especially excited to find a booth with organic oaxacan green fresh made tortillas & quessadillas! She has regular yellow corn tortillas you can buy a pack or a quesadilla meal too. There were plant people and farm people with fresh greens (yay garlic scapes!) and meat people and honey people and an AMAZING soap booth…omg..natural so lovely soaps There was some really awesome arts and jewelry and clay work and wood work & leather work & faerie wings 🧚🏽‍♂️ & clothes… o& a gluten free bakery booth with decadent pastries! (&bread) it’s so nice to be able to buy pastries i can eat (no wheat) the chocolate Croissant was too delish & had almond flour… I couldn’t resist eating it, even though I had already had the very sugary lemon something donut with icing, lemon curd and candied lemon peel on top….Good thing the macaroons were sold out by the time I got back to the booth 😏 apparently the market matches up to $20 ebt with $20 fresh produce bucks for...

ps: if you're going to offer gift certificates, you need to develop a better system than giving someone 30 tiny pieces of paper to put in their wallet (after waiting for you to count out 30 tiny pieces of paper🙄) my son's auntie, out of state, bought a gift certificate for him and it was just a huge hassle, won't be doing it again. (whoever stole his wallet probably didn't even know what they were so they were just wasted anyway)

they need to start earlier (esp in the hot summer) & be ready at opening. esp when charging vendors $35 booth fee for such a small market. small artisans & vendors can't afford this market. few seem to do well, could be...

the vibes just aren't what they used to be it's kind of jus like mini Saturday market now as it's actually literally a lot of the same vendors with the peeps running it jus looking to get those vendor fees and don't actually care about the community that let's face it, you're market couldn't exist without. if there's something i need sure i'll go get it but it's just biz lesser of two evils so i don't have to buy from a corporation. sure the item didn't come from exploited labor but gentrification pushes out those of us whose labor is the most exploited here. it's not really a place for the working class and there's no solidarity to be found at...