Farmers' markets: From four hundred to four thousand in less than two decades. They're sprouting like sunflowers in parking lots, town squares and plazas all across the country. Join us for a stroll through the throngs, the music, the aromas, colors and laughter of farmers' markets.
This program was funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Ralph Cwerman, President and Co-Founder, The Humpty Dumpty Institute
Sonia DeMarta, Co-Founder and Market Manager, Lexington Farmers' Market in Massachusetts.
Dan Best, Certified Farmers' Markets of Sacramento; Member, Federation of California Certified Farmers' Markets
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Kara Hochner
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: Music by The Delta Nationals courtesy of The Delta Nationals; welcome- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 1- "A Small Farm in Kentucky" by John Anderson, Koch Records; break 2- "Food" by Deirdra Flint, courtesy of Deirdra Flint; bottom of the hour billboard- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Yousou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 3- "A Small Farm in Kentucky" by John Anderson, Koch Records; close and credits- "Hog Potato" by Yonder Mountain String Band, Partners in Music.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
The Humpty Dumpty Institute is a nonprofit organization established in 1998 and headquartered in New York City which creates innovative public-private partnerships addressing complex international problems around the world. "Venture philanthropists" and business leaders who are interested in foreign policy issues support the Institute. Work done in support of Farmers' Markets' can be found here.
The Lexington Farmers' Market was founded by Sonia DeMarta, a Lexington resident with a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Boston University with a special interest Food and Food Production. Inspired several years ago by an article in WorldWatch magazine titled “Where have all the Farmers Gone?”, Sonia decided to put her education and experience to work in bringing a farmers’ market to Lexington, after seeing a very successful one in Newton, where she and her family lived prior to moving to Lexington.
The California Federation of Farmers' Markets works in an effort to re-establish the traditional link between farmers and consumers in California. Certified Farmers' Markets are "the real thing"; places where genuine farmers may offer for sale directly to the public only those agricultural products they grow themselves. The elimination of the middleman's multiple product handling and additional costs benefit both farmers and consumers.
Farmers' Markets and their link to health in low income families have also been reported in The New York Times.
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