By Rebecca Brickner | Published 13 hours ago

Khin Oo (left), a sophomore healthy policy and management major, samples food from Yugalas Kitchen from Carrboro at FLOs farmers market in the Great Hall.

Rainy weather did not stop passionate local vendors from selling their goods at an on-campus farmers market Thursday.

Fair Local Organic Food, a student group known as FLO, organized the event, which offered a mix of food for sale and for free. It was the groups final farmers market of the semester.

Claire Hannapel, director of communications for FLO, has been managing the groups farmers markets since the spring.

We hold these markets because were a group of students who want to think critically about food and where it comes from, and we want to bring that conversation to campus, she said.

Because of inclement weather, the event was relocated from the Pit to the Great Hall of the Student Union.

Hannapel said FLO embraced this change because it was representative of the uncertainty that goes into growing food.

Today was more a success in terms of a learning experience instead of sales, she said. Things usually just sort of come together in unexpected ways (in farming), and today was definitely an example of that.

The Food Coalition, which seeks to increase collaboration between student groups like FLO that work to address food issues, came to the market for the first time Thursday. At least 14 food issues groups were represented at the event.

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