The Market in a Garden
The Green Market Santa Cruz opened on Saturday, November 24, 2012. It was the brainchild of Vicki Assevero to use the strip of land on which husband Wendell Mottley had once cultivated orchids, to house a market. This would be a market with a difference: Michael Lee Poy designed open air huts; paths and walkways created; trees and flowering plants were groomed. The market opened with a thatched long hut; a mini cocoa house; a round house and several covered spaces for vendors. The owner of the land adjacent allowed the field to be used for parking cars. The Green Market committee called out friends and family to vend or visit. There was a festive air about those first markets sharpened by the uncertainty of whether it would catch on and grow. Christmas 2012 was a hopeful time and the market thrived with tremendous goodwill from all involved. It was one of the first to be promoted heavily on Facebook, after the fashion of the monthly Upmarket. The Market marks its eleventh yea...