A market gardener has decided to launch a petition following a consultation vote launched by the city: For or against the “return” of the food market in the city center.
For about two months, market gardeners, including Muriel Vayre, have been fighting against the vote of the “back to downtown” food markets, considered distorted. The term “feedback” problematic : “It’s a transfer to the streets and not a return” expresses Muriel Vayre. She specifies: “There is a kind of influence on their part with the population. We are told that the city center has been killed: it is not true, these are the zones! We are accused unfairly.” For a week, she launched an online petition that has accumulated more than 3,000 signatures.
A producer in Carcassonne since 2008, Muriel Vayre is committed to saving her passionate profession: “We had to revive a market after we were fired. For two years we have been putting all our strength into recreating a soul on Boulevard Roumens, and now we are being told under a disguised vote to go to the city center to restore the nostalgia of the inhabitants of Place Carnot. It is very serious, we must break this advisory vote which has no value. She adds “We discovered that we felt better here, that there is a fluidity of passage, good accessibility for people with reduced mobility. We managed to find a financial balance, we are not here just to make an animation in the city center”.
Create a city-city link
Boulevard Roumens offers many advantages to producers: “We have found facilities in terms of comfort and fairness. We can accommodate as many producers as we wish because it is spacious, it allows us to create a city-city link. two years and has taken on a large scale, counting 80 stands”, expresses the market gardener. She continues: “The goal is to continue to expand these markets by trying to make young producers want to come and settle with us. We want to attract customers to make them discover fresh and local food that is good for their health. C “It’s this strength that will make people stop going to the areas. We are all united and we will not stop there, we will continue to fight for this place which has a very big future.”