[ . . . ] Our market is in the Mount Pleasant show hall, with stalls inside or out depending on weather and stallholder numbers.
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What do you farm?
Both my markets are entirely open air. I put up a professional model EZ up tent, and it'll stand up to some wind; but it has limits. If there's too much wind, the tents don't stay up, and displays blow over; I've seen even tables go over, in a whole lot less wind than it must have taken to blow down those pylons.
I'd show up for an indoor market, presuming I could get there. And I show up in the rain, and occasionally in the snow. But immediately post-hurricane with another one expected, I don't know that the villages would even want us there. Stands flying around in the wind are a hazard. My tent gets strapped to the van (except at the market at which the van needs to be moved away from the stand except while loading/unloading) and to five-gallon buckets full of sand; but again, wind that blows over pylons is a different sort of thing entirely.
-- I grow a little bit each of a lot of different vegetables, a bit of fruit and herbs, and what for this area is a fair amount of garlic; all of it certified organic. One of the weather issues is that the garlic once harvested needs to stay dry; as long as the tent doesn't blow away, though, I can manage that, even in quite a bit of rain, though sometimes with a bit of sudden rearrangement of the stand if it's raining sideways.
-- hey, the sun's unexpectedly come out here. I should probably go get the wet tent out of the van and set it up to dry. It did rain on both markets this week, which was rather a whack in the pocketbook, though much of what I brought will sell eventually. And we did really need the rain.
