2023-2024 Indoor Winter Market!
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Thank you to our Community Sponsors!
Platinum Plow
Golden Gardener
Jess Lunt
The Empower Fund
Silver Shovel
Copper Cultivator
The Alvarez Cats
Black-Eyed Suzie’s
Fruition Chocolate Works
Laurie Ylvisaker Realtor
Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union
Woodstock Day School
The Woodstock Inn on the Millstream
Bronze Broadfork & Tin Trowel
Barry Price Architecture
Beverly Nerenberg
Blue Mountain Bistro-to-Go
Cantine’s Island Cohousing
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Danielle Auretto
Deborah & Michael DeWan
Dick & Susan Goldman
Dolores Miller
JoJo Demirel
Judith Asphar
Kerrie Baldwin
Nuvance Health
Perry Beekman
Rachel Daykin
Rosalind Dickinson & Michael Drillinger
Sharkie’s Meatballs
Sharon Cooper
Stacy Nagelberg
Stone Mountain Flower Health
Wendy Weinburd
Woodstock Democratic Committee
Zahra Choudhury
Cari Weisberg
Ellen Jahoda
Georgia Asher
Judith Chase
Lynn Schmeidler
Maxanne Resnick
Nancy Geaney
Peace, Love & Cupcakes
Renee Lucier
Sara Henry-Corrington
Stuart Auchincloss
Woodstock Farm Festival believes not being racist is not enough; we must be actively anti-racist.
We recognize that as a mostly white, privileged community, it is our responsibility to challenge and dismantle systems of racism and oppression in the food system. We honor that the modern day local food movement, including models of community supported agriculture, food co-ops, and farmers markets, can be traced to numerous Black leaders and activists who organized direct access to nutritious and ethnically appropriate foods in response to racist governmental policies. We acknowledge that we host this market on stolen land. The Munsee people of the Lenape tribe were the original inhabitants of Woodstock, New York. They had a respectful relationship with the land and took their responsibility as stewards seriously before European colonizers and the United States government erased their communities through violence, racist policies, and nefarious tactics. We commit to more BIPOC representation in our market across vendors, musicians, and community organizations. We are also committed to donating to regional organizations addressing Black land ownership – Did you know that less than 1% of all farmland in the United States is owned and managed by people of color, despite the exploitation of Black and Brown labor across our nation?
We support and appreciate grassroots leaders like Soul Fire Farm, Black Farmer Fund, and Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (just to name a few), who educate and advocate for a more just and truly equitable food system. We thank Soul Fire Farm for their “Uprooting Racism in the Food System” training, which has empowered us to create an anti-racist subcommittee to examine all decisions our organization makes through an anti-racist lens.
We do not tolerate racism, colorism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, or xenophobia of any kind in our market or on our online platforms, from market staff, volunteers, vendors, collaborators, nor shoppers. We all lose when white supremacy wins. We welcome constructive feedback from members of our community as we continue to strive to be an anti-racist organization, and we hope that you’ll join us in doing this work of learning, reflecting, and changing which our country so desperately needs and which communities of color so greatly deserve.
Peace & love,
The Woodstock Farm Festival Anti-Racism Subcommittee