You'll have to go that much longer without accessible fresh fruits and vegetables in the Marina, now that the merchants of Scott Street have successfully blocked a Tuesdays' farmers market from setting up stands there. (There's a longer article about this in today's Examiner, but it's not online yet for some reason.) All but four business and three tenants on Scott by Chestnut Street signed a petition against reopening the Marina Farmers' Market, claiming that all those bright, fresh-tasting leafy greens and tart apples interfered with parking and cut into their Tuesday profits.

McGoldrick and Ma killed the request at the City Ops and Neighborhood Services meeting yesterday, and proposed to move the market to the Marina Middle School on Saturdays instead, to which (other) merchants complained that the same tomatoes and sugar snap peas would drive traffic away from Chestnut and onto Fillmore. The request is up for a full vote at today's Board of Supes meeting.

Marina-ite folks should stick together
Scott Street vendors should all be pals!
Pluto's should dance with the farmers' daughters,
farmers dance with the trendy bath products vendors' gals!

Picture from the SF Center for Urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture

Oh, the farmer and the merchant should be friends,
the farmer and the merchant should be friends --
one man likes to push a plow
the other one likes to shop -- and how!
but that's no reason why they can't be friends.