Our next award is the Outstanding Support Organization Award. This award recognizes an individual or organization. who provides support for agricultural producers and made a significant impact to support the growth of our local food systems and their service is inclusive and they constantly seek new opportunities to collaborate. And this year, 2024 winner of the Outstanding Support Organization goes to the City of Edmond. The City of Edmond has been a staunch supporter of local agriculture in the Edmond Farmer's market. As the market has grown, city leadership has worked with market staff to develop new concepts and ideas to improve the space. Additionally, the city has continued to support through a budget that allows them to do marketing, recruit vendors, and do customer appreciation. The Edmond Farmers market will not be the market it is in 2024 Without the continuous support of the city. While other communities may not work closely with their municipality, the City of Edmond has been a steadfast partner.
Moving into the future, there is a renewing commitment to growing the farmers market and helping build local agriculture in Edmond. Thank you City of Edmond! We are here at the Oklahoma Local Agriculture Summit and the City of Edmond has been presented with the Outstanding Support Organization Award for 2024 today. So it's really great. It's really hard for farmers markets that don't have the support of a municipality like the city of Edmond to grow and expand and give more vendors the opportunity to sell every weekend.
So we are so lucky and we're we're very fortunate that we have the support of council in our leadership and parks and rec leadership everyday to help us continue to have a great market on Saturdays for all these families. I am so proud. I'm so proud not only to be a council person, but to be a resident of a city that goes above and beyond to help support the residents in the city and also other local cities that come here and partake in that farmer's market.
They have amazing things out there. They have amazing foods and jellies and wines and art. There's just so much to take part of and it's just a really great thing that's going on here in our community. And I'm just so proud to be a part of it. And I'm proud of our group. I'm proud of Emily Harmon, and she's done so much to move this farmer's market along throughout the years. And it's just an amazing thing that our city has to offer..