Walk Through a Farmers Market
with
Betsy Cook
Farmers markets are cropping up more and more in communities, but is there a real benefit to shopping at them? Find out what makes a farmers market different from a grocery store.
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Transcript: Walk Through a Farmers Market
Hi, I'm Betsy Cook with the Collingswood Farmers Market for About.com and today we're going to walk through the Market and show you what you can find at a typical farmers market.Benefits of Shopping at a Farmer's Market
Farmers markets are good for several reasons, because they allow the local farming community to have access to the public, to sell directly to the public. And it helps out farmers. It allows people to get their hands on the freshest just picked produce from their region. It's known to have better freshness, better nutrition, better quality, and farmers markets have caught on as just a fun event that you want to go to and spend time at and take in the sites and the sounds and the smells and the tastes.It's more enjoyable because people are so happy to get the produce here and people are very nice in this town. It's an idea that has been catching on. Farmers markets are growing, rapidly, across the country.