Farmer Local Market

Chew on this - according to the USDA in 2002 Farmers earned their lowest net cash income since 1940 while agribusiness profits nearly doubled since 1990. As Walmart announces its foray into the Organics market, our own Dewey Square farmers' market held its opening day. I spoke with the Jeff Cole Executive Director of the Federation of Massachusetts Farmers' Markets this week as bricklayers were literally still placing the bricks under tents set up for the vendors.

An economist; a farmer; a pair of hands.

Jeff (both an economist and a farmer) uses the metaphor of a three-legged stool to explain the value of the public markets. Farmers reap higher profits in a very low margin business. Urban areas benefit from revitalized neighborhoods and increased sense of community. Consumers get face-to-face contact with growers and producers, fresh food and good information.

We spoke of the distance food travels to get to our plates, (in many cases 1,500 miles - see Well Traveled Tomatoes). We also spoke of the distance between food growers and producers and food consumers. In many urban areas, people can live their daily lives never seeing a working farm or tasting vine-ripened fruit, just-picked vegetables, rustic bread, or fresh herbs.

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