The Mission Community Market is more than a farmers’ market. It’s mission is to provide choice for healthy and homemade foods, a platform for emerging businesses, and space for community programs. Community programming will be hosted by existing, community-based organizations throughout the Mission. It may include dance classes, youth art projects or a “play street” where kids can feel safe to play games in the street.
Market revenues will be reinvested into community activities, after-school programs at the market, public space improvements and murals!
The Mission Community Market originated from the Mission District Streetscape Plan, a community-based planning process led by the San Francisco Planning Department.
The Mission Community Market Collaborative is an all-volunteer, collaboration of community merchants, non-profits and associations from the Mission. It has non-profit sponsorship through the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Current Collaborative members and MCM supporters include:
• La Cocina
• Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)
• San Francisco Cart Project
• The Mission Market
• Revolution Cafe
• Escape from New York Pizza
• Loló
• 18 reasons
• Mission Beacon After-School Program
• Mission Merchants Association
• Mission Miracle Mile Community Benefit District
• Safety Network Partnership
• Arriba Juntos
• Shape Up San Francisco
• Mission Station, SFPD
• SF Great Streets Project
• Galeria de la Raza
• Mission District Police Station
CONTACT US
Contact us at mcm@missioncommunitymarket.org
Donate online or write a check to "SF Parks Alliance" with "MCM" in the memo.
Checks can be mailed to:
Mission Community Market
c/o SF Parks Alliance
P.O. Box 170160
San Francisco, CA 94117-0160
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Mission Local -
San Franciscans love their neighborhood farmers markets and Mission residents are no exception. At public meetings held in 2009 for the Mission Streetscape Plan, a community-based planning process led by the San Francisco Planning Department, participants expressed desire for a farmers market, but one that was unique to the Mission. As a result, the Mission Community Market was created in 2010.
Mission Loc@l spoke with Jeremy Shaw, the Mission Community Market’s executive director, to learn about plans for 2011. The Mission Community Market returns tonight and will be held every Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Bartlett between 21st and 22nd streets.
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El Tecolote -
Along with spring, The Mission Community Market is returning to Bartlett Street on April 14 after a four-month winter break. For the second year in a row, the vibrant community market will brighten the otherwise bleak alleys in the heart of the Mission District. Ultimately the organizer’s goal is to make the blocks between 21st and 22nd Streets a beautiful park-like space for people in the neighborhood to enjoy every day.
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San Francisco Magazine -
What the community got was a market—actually a street fair/after-school program/performance space/microbusiness incubator that materializes late on Thursday afternoons on Bartlett, a side street off 22nd. It’s not particularly original, maybe, but it’s executed with a cheerful energy and low-key inclusiveness that feels rare in this city—in this world.
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SF Gate -
The Mission Community Market stresses a more service-oriented approach. To that end, the market opens up one block of Bartlett Street (at 22nd Street) for community organizations and developing local businesses (such as jewelers and bakers), plows revenue back into the neighborhood and reserves slots for kids' activities - including musical performances, dance space and after-school programs involving food and nutrition, sponsored by nearby schools.
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SF Gate -
On one of last week's warm summer nights, we followed the sound of beating drums to 22nd and Bartlett in the Mission, where more than a dozen martial artists from Abada-Capoeira were performing the Afro-Brazilian art of dance-fighting in the middle of the street. The demonstration was part of the Mission Community Market, where every Thursday, Bay Area farmers and neighborhood merchants offer up locally produced sweets, fruits, vegetables, textiles, soaps, jewelry and hot street foods from 4 to 8 p.m. While local musicians serenaded shoppers and community organizations held food, dance and writing workshops for kids, we asked vendors about their summer.
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Yahoo! -
One of the main things that the Mission Community Market strives to do is create a space for budding entrepreneurs to display their wares. In this market, one doesn't have far to travel. I stopped over at a booth at the start of the market. It was a booth, filled with a few bottles of powders and oils. I met with Kim Leonard, a personable woman who made skincare. She first tempted me with the foot soak, which smelled wonderful. I ended up eying the face scrub, made from ground beans and peas.
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Streetsblog -
The newest repurposing of street space in San Francisco, the Mission Community Market (MCM), will formally launch today with its first weekly market and street closure on Bartlett Street between 22nd and 21st Streets from 4-8 pm. After holding a successful fundraiser in June, the MCM's organizers are hopeful the event has already gained a foothold in the community and will continue to improve and draw new participants.
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San Francisco Bay Guardian -
I watch as Theresa Alvarez painstakingly turns four year old Rolando Steinway-Raybon into a tiger with the palette of face-paints sitting in front of the Mission Beacon neighborhood organizer. Next to them, speakers bumped a hip hop song. Down the block of Bartlett Street where they sat, community members were buying and selling bags of salad greens and edible flowers, white peaches, homemade soaps, and pupusas that came with salad and salsa for the princely sum of $2. A lot going on at the first Mission Community Market, which Alvarez takes as a good sign.
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Uptown Almanac -
Based on earlier trials of the Mission Community Market, I was worried that it was going to be more of a neighborhood freakshow than a farmer's market. Well, guess what people? It's an excellent balance of both! Lots of veggies, fruits (get the 2 for $6 organic strawberries!), papusas and trannies dancing to horn instruments. Unfortunately, the exorbitant prices at the MCM will never make this market a reasonable substitute for the Civic Center farmer's market, but at least I can roll out of bed at 4pm on a Thursday afternoon and drag my ass over to 22nd and Bartlett and get veggies.
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SF Gate -
Photos of Mission Community Market's Opening Day!
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SF Gate -
For more than two centuries, the red and black images of a rare American Indian mural remained hidden in the dark behind the elaborate altar at Mission Dolores, inaccessible to anyone save a few archaeologists and curators. Now, the public can see it, too - in a way. A replica of a large section of the mural as it looks buried inside the church today - aged with cracks, holes, smudges and peeled plaster - now covers a storefront wall along Bartlett Street, between 21st and 22nd streets in San Francisco's Mission District.
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KQED -
In 2004, archaeologist Eric Blind and artist Ben Wood found a mural concealed behind an altar at Mission Dolores. The mural was painted sometime between 1791 and 1796, when the Ohlone and other local Native Americans are thought to have built the church. Painted on plaster, the mural is covered over with abstract patterns and Christian imagery. But about five years it was obscured behind a large wooden alter. Blind and Wood began digitizing the mural and asked local artists Jet Martinez, Ezra Eismont and Bunnie Reiss to paint it based on photos, outside a grocery store on Bartlett Street. Yesterday, the replica mural went on display.
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San Francisco Bay Guardian -
Ellen and Lance Anderson are visiting their son in the Sunset, all the way from upstate New York. They'd read about the mural they're now standing in front of in the newspaper that morning, and decided to make a trip out to the Mission to check it out. “And maybe get something to eat,” Lance told me, looking around at the vendors setting up around us and the mural for the Mission Community Market's first day of 2011.
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