Did you know that for every dollar you spend at a grocery store, only 25 cents goes back into the local economy? Compare that to a farmers’ market – for every dollar you spend here, 62 cents stays local, and 99 cents stay within your state. Multiply that by the ever-growing number of farmers’ market shoppers in the US, and the effect is huge.

 

The secret about farmers’ markets, though, is that their real value is so much more than that.