Farmers markets are growing their role as essential sources of healthy food for rich and poor

  • Written by: Edna Ledesma, Assistant Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Farmers markets are growing their role as essential sources of healthy food for rich and poorA customer shops at a drive-thru farmers market in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 2, 2020. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

For many Americans, buying fresh local food at one of the estimated 9,000 farmers markets across the U.S. is one of summer’s pleasures. But farmers markets aren’t just nice amenities. Over the past 18 months, many have...

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