FYI, the Shamrock'n does not have a 5k anymore. Registration has also been closed for some time- it is popular.

If you read the article, or speak with anyone involved, you'd realize that an urban farm stand is not a farmer's market, and does not involved the large number of vendors and people involved in those operations. The point is to work with local producers to bring fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables to neighborhoods that don't have the large, many-vendor farmer's markets. So, what Alchemist does is work with food producers to bring produce to the Alkali and Mansion Flats neighborhood, and the Oak Park neighborhood. SMHA, a long-established organization, has helped Alchemist, a new organization, get this farm stand program running. It is called collaboration. Maybe this will help you understand what Alchemist does, and what they don't do (i.e. they organize a farm stand, they do not "lobby SHRA for our tax dollars"). Sometimes it helps to be informed before attempting to poison the fruitful efforts of others with your misguided frusutration.