Focus on Agriculture
Farmers’
Markets
a “Win-Win-Win”
Robert Giblin
M
emorial Day weekend semi-officially marks the
beginning of summer, but in many parts of the
country, summer seasonal farmers’ markets have been
open for one or two months and people are flocking to
them.
The Agriculture Department reports that there were
7,864 U.S. farmers’ markets in 2012, an increase of 28
percent in just two years and more than 4.5 times the
number of markets in 1994. Of those, 1,864 are winter
farmers’ markets, which increased 52 percent in just the
last year. They have grown so popular that