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Originally Posted by greentiger87
Yeah.. farmers markets aren't really markets, at least not in Houston. Most people come there and bring their families and make it into an "event". The "co-ops" are the place people go to actually buy groceries.
I'm curious, do market gardeners have mixed feelings about the rise of urban gardening, and even hydroponics? Big agriculture certainly does.
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Most are like flea markets.... The new one in Richmond is not, only produce grown here you sell yourself is allowed.
But its tough, real tough. I like the other farmers there. I know what they go through.
You have to have a calling to do it, fight through the stuff you know is wrong.
But you keep batteling. You keep battleing because you know its right. When a few moms tell you that their family has a history of diabetes, and the kids are heavy, but all the sudden they love these snacking tomatos and try and eat more veggies becasue of that, you fight the heat, the bugs, all of it. You win the war of wills.