gather several restaurants in New Glasgow had been jam- packed that night because of this special event. We work with the Market to launch Winter Carnival season with an event called Chill-out and for the past three years, it has brought more than a thousand people to the downtown core annually. This has made businesses throughout the region more interested in the Farmers Market than ever before. They all want to know when these kinds of events are taking place so that they can take advantage of the economic spinoff. I can say with certainty and sincerity that the New Glasgow Farmer’s Market is known and respected far and wide. How has its success shaped the entrepreneur- ial community in New Glasgow? GM: I was recently asked to make a presentation on the partnership between the local municipalities and the Town of New Glasgow with the Farmers Market at the Farmers Markets of Nova Scotia AGM in Halifax. I was asked by several people why we are so enthusiastic about partner- ing with the FarmersMarket at the municipal level. When I talked about the economic spinoff there were no longer any questions about justifying the resources we put into this. I told them that every Farmers Market is a business incubator and I strongly believe that.
We have a local entrepreneur who combined working out of a community art studio space owned by the Town with
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