in a city with population ~45,000 . . .
we have two large scale ‘things’ touted as “farmers’ markets” - each operates only one day per week.
the one ‘downtown’ has more lunch/snack booths that anything you want to buy and take home to cook.
the slightly outside of town one has more stuff you may want to buy and take home to cook.
however, encountering a young female dressed in Amish garb, standing out back with gold chains, tattoos, smoking while chatting on her cell phone . . . could cause one to consider what exactly is going on here.
then, , , , there’s multiple ‘farm stands’ we frequent. some are more inclined to import ‘early’ stuff from southern locales, some offer only stuff off their own vines.
so the whole circumstance of “what is a farmers’ market?” must take into account the situation.
what passes in a “big city” is seriously different than what passes in a rural/semi-rural environment.
lived in southern NJ for a couple years. took the Commodore Barry bridge to PA daily.
saw farm trucks piled high with boxes labeled “Vine Ripened Tomatoes” headed for the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market. thru the hand holes, one could plainly see tomatoes as green as it gets…
total flipping lies . . .
