After years of bad management, the Lane County Farmer’s Market is back and stronger than ever, even opening satellite sites this Spring.
After years of bad management, the Lane County Farmer’s Market is back and stronger than ever, even opening satellite sites this Spring.
That’s partly because of a crisis-spurred restructuring that has added oversight checks and balances, as well as four community representatives to the market’s nine-member board of directors, said Bernard, whose family runs Ruby and Amber’s Farm in Dexter.
Several years of inept management led to state garnishment of unpaid payroll taxes and a federal tax lien, nearly wiping out the nonprofit corporation’s cash reserves.
“I was pretty worried last year that the market was going to fail,” said Walt Bernard, the group’s new board president. “And a lot of people’s livelihoods depend on the Lane County Farmers’ Market being solvent.”
Read more at The Register-Guard.
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