On Tuesday, District 6 members will come together to celebrate a new grower’s market in the International District as well as host a community workshop to hear ideas about spending district funds next year.
District 6 City Councilor Nichole Rogers, Mayor Tim Keller, and members from the district’s community participatory budgeting team will be cutting the ribbon on the new market at Kathryn Southeast and San Mateo Boulevard. Rogers said this was a need because the International District is a food desert.
“I was really proud of the entire district, decided to focus our district’s funds on the most vulnerable neighborhood,” she said. “It’s a place where we can host our own growers market, we can have not just food vendors, but other vendors from the neighborhood come.”…