Why Isn't Revolution Bakery at the Santa Fe Farmers' Market?

Look I had read between the lines of your statement. It appears that you are allowing the vendor selling gluten free (spelt has never been gluten free ) products to continue to do so and she doesn't get her gluten free flour from a local source. And she has been extended to the end of the year. She initially was only selling jam and was given gratis to sell glutton free bread without being reviewed or having to petition to sell another product which she wasn't initially slated to sell. Who gave her permission ( long-term-temporary ) or the authority to sell gluten free products. Was this something your office decided on its own without a review of what is sold at the market. I understand that all items to be sold at the market must go through a process of being approved by the board or your office before it may be sold. Am I to understand because she was selling jams that she was allowed to sell gluten free products to accompany her jams. Did your office check to see what the source of her gluten free flour was being generated from and did she go through the regular review process before she was allowed to sell gluten free bread. Lets be honest with the public how was she allowed to sell her gluten free baked items. Also, I understood that she was given carte blanc to do this without a review. Did you arbitrarily decide that she could sell her gluten free baked goods? Is this a community market run by an oligarchy who decides they know what is best for the citizens of this community or are you a dictator who makes your own independent decisions?

What is the real reason the Santa Fe Farmer's Market is not allowing Revolution Bakery not offer/ sell their products to the community out of a public facility? I have heard in the community that it is because the Farmer's Market is a tightly knit club that supports friends and family members only and that is how they determine who gets to sell products at the market. Is this how Santa Farmers Market defines equality of service to the community at large. Please allow Revolution Bakery to offer products to the public out of this space. WE WILL NOT GO AWAY AND WE WILL HOLD FARMER'S MARKET ACCOUNTABLE TO THE COMMUNITY

Let them participate and sell at the Farmer's market. Please!

This is LUDICROUS ....What happened to EQUAL OPPORTUNITY? ?

Give Revolution Bakery an opportunity to provide Santa Feans high quality products in this venue.

I've been buying from revolution bakery and when she used to own the tea house as well. RB belongs at farmers market

This is one of the reasons I don't go to the Farmer's Market. I'm crazy about Revolution Bakery and the Farmer's Market doesn't offer their quality.

Lets support Revolution Bakery... good stuff!

We are fortunate to have a wonderful gluten-free bakery like Revolution in Santa Fe.

please allow Revolution Bakery into the SF Farmers Mkt. They are local and do a great job, I love their bread.

The Santa Fe Farmers Market Board can, and DOES, invite vendors to participate who do not completely fit, for one reason or another, the 100% local source criteria, to include product diversity otherwise not possible. They sell those products in the market store and café as well. While we at Revolution would be happy to “rise to the occasion” and contract to grow grain locally, we do not use one wheat berry, we use over 40 varied ancient grains and foods, (part of the reason we are so healthy) many of these require specialized climates and regions. TO SAY ONE VENDOR FROM TAOS HAD PERMISSION TO SELL GLUTEN FREE IS MISLEADING. This vendor has had permission for years, and is currently selling, the same non local sourced gluten free baked goods she has been. Only after being alerted to the legal conflict this permission has raised has there been talk of stopping her sales as well. This would be a sad outcome for the community of Santa Fe, effectively eliminating any access to anything gluten free at all! Revolution Bakery uses local honey, fruit, nuts, berries, eggs, and dairy. Whatever we can possibly buy locally, WE DO. We are currently selling at Los Alamos Mkt (the original and oldest mkt in the state), El Dorado mkt., Downtown Growers mkt in Abq, and the Railyard market in Abq. At those markets we sample other local vendor products with our own, buy from those vendors, and also promote them in our store and at our market booths. We are 100% committed to the local food revolution, and really, really want a chance to offer a healthy alternative, gluten free bread and pastries for all those that want and NEED IT. Please, Santa Fe Farmers Market, recognize the NEED in our community for healthy gluten free food, Let the Revolution happen! Revolution Rising, Dionne Christian

I Love Revolution Bakery!!

This sounds like unfair trade practices and if this petition doesn't work, you can definitely take legal action.

Best gluten free goodies in Santa Fe!

Bring on the GF goodies!!

I love Revolution Bakery's products, but even more their community spirit. They are always ready to provide goodies for worthy local non-profits. They are OF this community as well as IN it. Please see what can be done to keep this business in good health by introducing them to your customers.

Hi All, I'm writing in from the farmers market to clear up an error in this petition. I'm happy to see that Revolution Bakery is getting their customers to come out in support, and all signees deserve an accurate representation for Revolution's situation in regards to our market. In order to be eligible to sell at the Santa Fe Farmers' Market, vendors must source the majority of their ingredients from Northern New Mexico. Revolution Bakery would not have to GROW their own grains to be eligible, they would only have to SOURCE their grains from the local area. This requirement absolutely extends to all the bakers at the farmers market, who source their wheat from Sangre de Cristo Flour Mill, Valencia Flour Mill, and the Navajo Nation—all in Northern NM. One vendor had temporary permission to offer gluten-free items with non-local spelt flours (in addition to her line of locally-sourced chutneys and jams). That permission will expire at the end of this year. Founded for growers, by growers, the farmers market is committed to setting very high standards in order to preserve agriculture in our foodshed. These standards have had a major positive impact. In one inspirng example, Cloud Cliff Bakery was having trouble sourcing local wheat flour. Rather than asking permission to use non-local flour, they formed a relationship with a struggling group of wheat farmers in northern NM. Today, that group of farmers is the Sangre de Christo Agricultural Producers Co-Op, a thriving collective that, thanks to the farmers market's commitment to local production, has revitalized the wheat industry in our state. (for more information, see: http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/7390 http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Bulletins/Meeting-the-Diverse-Needs-of-Limited-Resource-Producers/Text-Version/Profiles/New-Mexico-Wheat-Growers-Join-Forces-to-Grow-Market-Premium-Flower The market has repeatedly invited Revolution Bakery to form a similar arrangement with local

You have my support, Dionne. VIVA LA REVOLUCÍON!!!!

Revolution Bakery is the best, and I would be more likely to attend the farmer's market if I knew I could buy their products there. I think it is discriminatory to not allow RB to sell there yet others (not based in Santa Fe) can. This needs to change.

I am not in Rio Rancho, I am in Santa Fe. Janet W. Kimberling