I spent 9.5 years working at marketumbrella.org in New Orleans LA. We founded and run the Crescent City Farmers Market and also founded the White Boot Brigade and “Festivus, The Holiday Market For the Rest Of Us”.

I love just about everything to do with public markets. I worked to start the marketshare project at marketumbrella.org, which works to:

To professionalize the field of mission-driven public markets by providing resources, tools and technical assistance for market organizations. We do this by:

a)  borrowing ideas from other sectors and adapting them for public markets use.

b) encouraging and analyzing innovation and evaluation in public markets

c) creating peer networks and shared information streams to build the movement up from the grassroots level.

I will continue some of this work on a national level, at times hopefully working with leaders such as marketumbrella.org, Farmers Market Coalition and others.
I have started this blog to share with others in real-time with informal posts. Many organizations such as marketumbrella.org and Farmers Market Coaliton and Projects for Public Spaces have excellent websites to see the tools and resources that they want to share, so look on their sites for more practical stuff.
For this blog, do me know if there is anything that would be useful to know that I can research or that you want me to start a topic on.
Dar Wolnik