<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Some farmers’ markets aren’t as local as you think]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by mihan http://www.grist.org/article/local2/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:03:49 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/local2/1 control

Who controls the farmers' markets? Who's on the board of directors? If it's the farmers, they should be able to make it a true "farmers'" market. If you're not a farmer, you shouldn't be selling at a farmers' market. If you want to buy a watermelon in February, you shouldn't be shopping at a farmers' market for it.

Sometimes it may go too far. At the Dane Co. farmers' market, you can't sell anything that wasn't produced in Wisconsin, and you can't even sell anything you didn't produce or process yourself: if you sell a pork loin, you raised it; if you sell sausage, you need not have raised it. The company selling fresh pasta is not allowed to sell pesto tortellini because they don't make the pesto themselves.

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Who controls the farmers' markets? Who's on the board of directors? If it's the farmers, they should be able to make it a true "farmers'" market. If you're not a farmer, you shouldn't be selling at a farmers' market. If you want to buy a watermelon in February, you shouldn't be shopping at a farmers' market for it.

Sometimes it may go too far. At the Dane Co. farmers' market, you can't sell anything that wasn't produced in Wisconsin, and you can't even sell anything you didn't produce or process yourself: if you sell a pork loin, you raised it; if you sell sausage, you need not have raised it. The company selling fresh pasta is not allowed to sell pesto tortellini because they don't make the pesto themselves.

]]> Comment #2 by redjenny http://www.grist.org/article/local2/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:47:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/local2/2 As someone wise recently said

We can't shop our way to sustainability.

Or something like that. Unfortunately the corporate capitalist system alienates us from the products we purchase. We have no idea what goes into making, transporting, selling them.

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We can't shop our way to sustainability.

Or something like that. Unfortunately the corporate capitalist system alienates us from the products we purchase. We have no idea what goes into making, transporting, selling them.

]]> Comment #3 by johnilsr http://www.grist.org/article/local2/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:01:10 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/local2/3 Some rules out there, always looking for more

Hi all-

We have some rules on our New Rules Project site in our Agriculture sector that deal with this issue and related issues:

Rules on Expanding Local Markets

In particular to the Farmer's Market issue we have the Dallas Farmer's Market rules as an example.  For example, they define farmers vs. dealers and charge farmers half price for the stalls. Here is the link. Dallas Farmer's Market Rules

Requiring origin of food labeling is also a way to ensure that the local food producers stand out from the crowd. More on that here.

Please drop a note here if you know of any cities that have (more) interesting rules in place for farmer's markets and/or local food promotion.

Take care.
jb


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Hi all-

We have some rules on our New Rules Project site in our Agriculture sector that deal with this issue and related issues:

Rules on Expanding Local Markets

In particular to the Farmer's Market issue we have the Dallas Farmer's Market rules as an example.  For example, they define farmers vs. dealers and charge farmers half price for the stalls. Here is the link. Dallas Farmer's Market Rules

Requiring origin of food labeling is also a way to ensure that the local food producers stand out from the crowd. More on that here.

Please drop a note here if you know of any cities that have (more) interesting rules in place for farmer's markets and/or local food promotion.

Take care.
jb


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