This is an excellent blog overall for CRADLErs, and I particularly recommend the August 31st post entitled “Growing Local” — Not Just for Tomatoes. Craige Hoover makes explicit the parallel between farmers markets and local arts. Once he’s done so, he concludes, “Returning to the neighborhood scale is a movement that is not localized to the development, retail, and farming industries, it’s a cultural-wide movement that has only just begun to take root (pun intended).”

Exactly, and well said, Craige!