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What’s In A Name? Protecting Farmers Market Integrity through a Common Definition
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by admin. Filed under News, Newsletter.
One of the first issues that Farmers Market Coalition (FMC) members asked the organization to look at after FMC’s incorporation in 2006 was the definition of the term ‘farmers market.’ Then, as now, the use of the term (with or without an apostrophe) is coveted from marketing and public image perspectives and is not always used with sufficient integrity or in the best interest of family farms.