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    A Short History of the American Farmers Market

    The farmers market is older than the country, and for most of its life it was a city service, not a movement. How public markets were built, nearly abandoned, written into federal law in 1976, and rebuilt as the nonprofit, mostly tent-based markets we sell and shop at today.

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