14-day limit on farmers’ markets ires vendors

Farmers’ market vendors are anxious to make their views known when a review of provincial guidelines governing how farmers’ markets operate gets underway in the new year. Topping their concerns is a 14-day limit on the number of days markets can operate in any given year. “The big one is this 14 days (restriction),” said

Farmers’ markets have $10 million economic impact: study

Think those $5 and $10 bills exchanged for garden produce and other homegrown food at farmers’ markets don’t amount to much money made by anyone? Think again. Taking total economic impact into account, the value of farmers’ market activity to Manitoba’s economy exceeds $10 million annually, according to interim findings of a new study released