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Story Archives of 'Farmers Markets'
Redesign Your Farmers' Market
By Avishay Artsy on Friday, August 28, 2009.The good folks at GOOD Magazine have a contest to redesign your local farmer's market, and they've just put out three entries from the bumper crop of submissions they've received.
Inner City Teens Take On Business World
By Jasmyn Belcher on Tuesday, August 11, 2009.
New Hampshire is teeming with farmers’ markets this summer. In parking lots and town squares, farmers haul in their bins of green beans and tomatoes and spend the day selling.
Beirut Farmers Markets
By Ben Gilbert on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
President Obama's speech in Egypt earlier today urges cooperation and collaboration in the Middle East.
A rare respite from religious and ethnic differences is the city of Beirut’s lone farmers market. That’s where Sunnis, Shiites and Christians peacefully gather to buy and sell their wares, from grapes and pomegranates to oranges and honey.
Networked Farms
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, June 4, 2009.
When we think of farms, we often imagine those pastoral places of swaying grain and glimmering corn silos. But like all of us, farmers live in the digital age. There’s software to manage crops, robotic farmhands to pick oranges or spray pesticides, and even microchips that tweet reminders to water crops. Technology and agriculture are also pairing up to get products from the field to the dinner table.
Here in New Hampshire, a virtual farmer’s marketplace allows producers to take orders for what’s available. A similar pilot is running in the Bay area. And Tom Grace is here to fill us in. Tom started a neighborhood farmer’s market in Portland, Oregon, and now he’s shifted his efforts to the web, as the vice president of programs for a start-up called Farms Reach. The service aims to make it easier and cheaper for restaurants to buy food from small, local farms.
Wired Science: Food Web, Meet Interweb: The Networked Future of Farms
New Hampshire Virtual Farmers' Marketplace
(Photo by swisscan via Flickr/Creative Commons)
A Holiday Farmers Market in Dover
By Xenia Piaseckyj on Thursday, December 20, 2007.Just when you think Farmers' Markets are a thing of seasons past, some folks have put together a Holiday Farmers' Market in Dover.
Let's Move the Farmers' Market Indoors
By Sheryl Rich-Kern on Monday, November 13, 2006.Local growers across the state are keeping a close eye on a new business model in Amherst.
New England's first indoor farmer's market had its ribbon cutting ceremony this month.
Over 12 vendors who produce wines, meats, and vegetables are greeting customers in a shopping mall at Salzburg Square on Route 101.
NHPR Correspondent Sheryl Rich-Kern reports.
Farmers Markets
By Rosemary Conroy on Thursday, June 15, 2006.What do farmers markets have to do with nature or the environments? In many respects, nothing is more natural than locally-grown food - or better for the environment.
New Hampshire's Farmers Markets are Popular and Growing
By Wendi Dowst on Friday, July 12, 2002.Summer weekends are a good time to find farmers markets in New Hampshire. They've increased in size and popularity. Many of the larger towns now have an outdoor market, but the Granite State still hosts fewer than its neighbors. Wendi Dowst has more.
