Food access and grocery shopping were considered essential services in 2020, so farmers markets adapted, focusing even more on supporting local farmers and producers while also making produce, food, and value-added products as accessible as possible. Regional Farmers Markets are looking forward to slowly getting back to normal in 2021.
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Biking or walking to a local farmers market is great summertime urban adventure, offering exercise and healthy food.
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For a true hands-in-the-dirt connection to your sustenance, gather a few friends or your family and head to a u-pick farm.
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We garden out of a love for heritage. My husband and I are archeologists. He grew up with Polish parents, going to a Polish church in upstate New York, weeding a Polish-American garden, and picking mulberries. I grew up in rural New England, learning about farming from my French-Canadian mother and my Scottish-descent father—not to
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Farming is hard. It involves lots of dirt, long hours, relentless weather, and taxing physical labor, sometimes with very little return. Most of us don’t want to be farmers—gardeners, maybe—but we all certainly want to enjoy fresh local produce all summer long. The Inland Northwest is home to a thriving agricultural community of farmers who
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In spite of our shorter growing season, the Inland Northwest boasts a myriad of abundant markets that connect people to local food and farmers. These markets are a wonderful place to discover new and staple foods, support the local economy, build community sustainability, and learn how to use local foods in creative ways.
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The Inland Northwest is abundant in vegetable, grain, fruit, herb, and berry farms, as well as ranches. Throughout the spring and summer, we find much of this produce and meat at farmers’ markets, local grocers, and farm stands. But there are also many opportunities to pick your own from the farm abundance—especially in autumn.
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Once you’ve tasted an organic carrot, grown with a combination of Inland Northwest soil, sun, and rain, you can never go back to eating store-bought organic carrots. Never. That’s what farmers’ market vegetables will do for you – forever transform your perspective about fresh food. My family’s affection for farmers’ markets started as newlyweds when
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