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4 published pieces tagged market management.
About one in five U.S. farmers markets runs all twelve months, and others open a separate indoor season. Here is what a winter market looks like from the inside, what sells at one, what changes when you move under someone else's roof, and how to find the one nearest you.
· 8 min read
The USDA directory alone lists more than 7,000 farmers markets. Here is where to look, what a listing cannot tell you, and how two visits as a shopper and one conversation with the manager reveal whether a market actually needs what you make.
· 8 min read
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.
· 9 min read
Four USDA datasets count farmers markets in four different ways, and none of them shows the boom still running. Here are the numbers as published, what each one measures, and what they suggest for a vendor deciding where to sell.
· 9 min read
