- Author: Katie (Cathryn) R Johnson
Published on: May 12, 2020
![Farmers markets are essential community food sources and important for promoting social connection, which are especially needed now in small towns and counties.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food/blogfiles/69859small.png)
Farmers markets are essential community food sources and important for promoting social connection, which are especially needed now in small towns and counties.
When California issued a statewide stay-at-home order to slow the spread of COVID-19 earlier this spring, a handful of essential services were exempted from the order. Along with grocery stores and agricultural operations, farmers markets were included as essential sources of food. For the farmers and other vendors who sell at farmers markets, their businesses and sometimes their livelihoods depend on the markets. For many people, farmers markets are important social occasions, as we all like to gather around good food to talk, share, and eat together. But the primary role farmers markets fill as sources of nutrient-dense, high-quality, fresh fruits and vegetables has become increasingly clear as bare...
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