#farmers markets

USDA has proclaimed August 4 – 10 as National Farmers Market Week.  I love farmers markets and I’m glad USDA is trying to promote them. USDA publishes a directory of US farmers markets—7,033 listings. It also lists Agrotourism sites (12,763) CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture (1,011)

The USDA’s Economic Research Service was damaged serriously when the Trump Administration moved its offices out of Washington DC to Kansas, and it is taking some time to recover. It’s still publishing what it calls Charts of Note. These are on all kinds of topics dealing with farm production and

Helen Tangires.  Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City.  Johns Hopkins Press, 2019.  Why did Paris destroy Les Halles?  Why did New York City move the Fulton Fish Market to the Bronx?  People who remember these places still mourn their loss.  This book explains why

I’m in Israel this week at a meeting on Sustainable Food Systems* along with some basic food tourism. The trip started with a visit to the small-but-impressive farmers’ market at the Port of Tel Aviv. The market is under umbrellas to protect people, sprouts, and other vegetables from the