Vending
For 2011 we're taking a real departure from the traditional vending area. No more big expensive tent and tables. No, for individuals and groups vending valuable products and services, we've set aside 80+ sites in "Agora Valley". With four months to go, its already 2/3 full! You'll find such vendors as George's Famous Baklava, Our Food, Your Gullet, Liberty Bell Homemade Ice Cream, and MUCH, MUCH more! Interested in a site? Email Vend@PorcFest.com
How I See It: 6 rows, 80 something sites, of vibrant community based on voluntary exchange for mutual benefit.
Every other road is closed to vehicular traffic, Agorists are encouraged to set up their free market venture on this side of their site, all facing each other and more importantly, the traffic of potential customers. The other street bordering each site will be open to vehicles, and Agorists are encouraged to camp on this side, and keep their less attractive items (like trash bags) to this end.
The pedestrian walk-ways are alive with revelers with real money jingling in their pockets.
Old friends and new embrace every few feet. Children walk with parents.
Lovers stroll hand in hand. Laughter is pervasive and constant.
Music, PorcFest Radio plays from dozens of small radios brought for the purpose.
Someone is singing. Someone else is playing the guitar in time.
The air is thick with the smell of delicious delectables. And perfume. And incense. And summer.
Each walk-way has a name, chosen by the vendors. All are more inventive than "Agora Alley".
In an attempt to gain customers, individuals make individual choices to increase their chances. In an attempt to gain customers, the vendors of the walk-way band together to make theirs something truly special. Night time LED lighting is employed by all to increase the number of profitable hours, and cater to their customers. People dicker. They haggle. Deals are made. Value exchanged for value.
The double Thank You.
On the drive-way, campsites are kept neat. Traffic flows freely. Someone has started a trash service, seeing the opportunity. Deals are struck to transport the trash of other roads.
Other services are being offered, some successful, some not.
Someone brought a golf cart and started a taxi service. Another is renting out his Segway
at 1 hour intervals. Still another is marketing his home-made electric car.
These roads have names, too, but they are less philosophical, more practical.
This is the behind the scenes, were the cooperation between vendors is really apparent.
All is done voluntarily, for mutual benefit, or not done at all.
