A Community Farmers’ Market: Parson’s Green

i) Preface

ii) Table of Contents: Chapter Headings

iii) Table of Contents: In Full

PART ONE

0. Introduction
   Aim
   Author/Background
   Audience
1. Farmers’ Markets
   Introducing Farmers’ Markets
   Reasons for using and advocacy:
   +Ethical
   +Quality
   +Variety
   +Sustainability
   ++Intro
   ++At sea
   ++Farmers’ Markets, Fish and fishing
   ++On land
   ++Farmers’ Markets, Farms and farming
   Community/Social
2. A ‘Community’ Farmers’ Market
   a) Community: In General
   +What is a community?
   b) Community: Specific/Parson’s Green
   +The core Parson’s Green area boundary
   +The wider Parson’s Green area of London
   ++Gardens: Market Garden, Botanic, Kitchen and Allotment
   c) Why a ‘Community’ market? In General
   +Reasons for a community to run their own farmers’ market:
   1) Promotion
   2) Standards
   3) Trust
   4) Social
   5) Economic
   ++Money out:
   ++Money in:
   d) Why a ‘Community’ market? Specific/at Parson’s Green
3. A Recipe for a Community Farmers’ Market: Part One – Ingredients
   1: Ingredients: (fundamentals)
   1)The idea
   2)A venue
   3)Community support
   4)Traders
   5)Customers
   a) Ingredients in general/for any community.
   1)-5)
   b) Ingredients specific to parson’s Green.
   1)-5)
4. A Recipe for a Community Farmers’ Market: Part Two – Method
   2: Method: (a step by step action plan)
   +a) Method, in general/for any community (a story).
   ++Knead your vision
   ++There’s no place like home! There’s no place like home!
   ++These boots are made for ‘talking’
   ++A Flyer
   ++Farmer, basket/box
   ++A visit
   ++A Grand Opening Day
   ++The Banner
   ++Pre-Opening events
   +++The first
   +++The second
   ++Last Leg
   +b) Method, specific to Parsons Green
5. A Community-Centred Future: Part One – More than just a Market
   Introduction.
   A: Farmers’ Markets in the United Kingdom
   +Lost and found
   +Options/ Welcome back to a local market-place.
   +A market-place in each town?
   B: Community initiative and CSA (CICSA)
   +Introduction
   +CSA
   +CICSA
   +Community Projects affiliated to a Community Market
   +CICSA small/medium
   ++1) Workshops (Learn, Mend and Lend)
   +++A farmers’ market as a community space/noticeboard
   ++2) A box scheme (small scale)
   +++Exotics, things we cannot source in our own country
   +++Buyers clubs (small scale)
   ++3) Community growing projects (small/medium scale)
   ++4) Local Exchange Trading Systems/Schemes ( LETS )
   +++Parson’s Green LETS (a short story)
6. A Community-Centred Future: Part Two – More ambitious Community-wide co-operation
   Introduction
   CICSA (large scale)
   1) A box scheme (true CSA/crop-share)
   2) Buyers clubs (large scale)
   3) Community growing projects (large scale)
   +Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and Community growing projects
   +Allotment gardens (Government protected community growing spaces)
   4) High Streets and Community Centres
   +Past and present
   +A convenient future? (Cyber Street: a short story)
   +How we can help keep our real-world community centres alive
   +A happy/healthy future? (Solar Street: a short story)

PART TWO

7. A sustainable life: Part One – Food (fishing and farming)
   Introduction
   Before the dawn of farming: Fishing
   Small is beautiful (small-scale farming)
   Ancient and modern (horse and hand power)
   Training a new generation of farmers
   Cross-cultural soup
   Working on the land
8. A sustainable life: Part Two – Clothing (growing, spinning, weaving, a sustainable industry)
   A red coat
   The forgotten fabric of our lives
   “The most comfortable clothes i have ever worn”
   Fast fashion and some sustainable alternatives
9. A sustainable life: Part Three – Shelter (homes and sustainable living)
   Introduction
   Housing 1: Housebuilding, traditional and modern
   Green housing, services and transport
   +Cold and heat, water and (human) waste
   +Recycling, Reuse, and Food-waste
   +Food-waste (incl Composting and Biogas generation)
   +Packaging (incl home recycling and refill stations)
   +Smart homes and energy
   Transport
   +Shared car transport
   +Non-car transport
   ++Buses and Trains (Public Transport)
   ++Cycling and walking (Active travel)
   +Water-born freight
   Self sufficiency for everyone
   +A smallholding (one acre or less/or more)
   +A ‘Hoe-Farm’, a traditional approach
   +Urban life and self-sufficiencies
   ++Urban ‘off-grid’
   ++Personal communications, private and decentralised
   Housing 2: Homebuilding, housing ourselves today
   Community Led Housing
   +Cooperative housing (housing coops)
   +Self builds
   +Cohousing and Intentional community
   +Community Land Trusts
   +The Garden City idea
   Social Life and culture
   Summary
10. A sustainable world
    To feed the world
    The global marketplace: the marketplace of ideas
    
    References, Bibliography
    Index