Farmers Market News

MEET OUR FAUNA

Claremont's city website announced that the City and the California Department of Fish and Game will have a joint booth (no, not medical marijuana-related) at today's downtown Farmers' Market on 2nd St east of Indian Hill Blvd.

The booth will be open from 8am to 1pm. Stop by and discover all sorts of facts about our four-footed friends, including coyotes and bears. And remember, keep your garbage secure. We don't want the wildlife getting habituated to people because then they become real nuisances requiring animal control measures.

This comes to us from the City's website:

Living with Wildlife in the Foothill Communities

The City of Claremont, in conjunction with the California Department of Fish and Game, will have an information booth at the Farmers & Artisans Market in Claremont on Sunday, February 1, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. City Council members, along with California Department of Fish and Game personnel, will be present with information and literature on learning to live with the various forms of wildlife (primarily coyotes and bears) that are in our foothill communities. If you have encountered coyotes and bears in your neighborhood, this information will be very helpful in learning how to handle these encounters. Also, learn methods you can use to discourage wildlife from venturing into your neighborhood and encourage wildlife to remain in the foothills and wilderness areas where they belong. The Farmers & Artisans Market is located on Second Street, between Indian Hill Boulevard and Yale Avenue.

For further information on living with wildlife, the California Department of Fish and Game has an excellent website at www.keepmewild.org

MEET OUR COUNCIL

And if you'd like to learn more about our two-footed friends, it's the first Sunday of the month, which means the City Council will be on hand in hour-long shifts at the Farmers Market today beginning at 8am:

Sunday, February 1, 2009
Talk With Council at the Farmers' Market

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Claremont Village
2nd Street between Indian Hill Boulevard and Yale Ave.
Claremont
(909) 399-5460

Talk with council members when they "set up shop" at the Claremont Farmers' Market, usually on the 1st Sunday of each month.