[spodek]

The article applies to farmers markets too. By any measure, farmers markets are better than supermarkets and takeout. Cheaper, faster, more convenient (if there's one nearby), more friendly, cleaner, healthier, but talk about their benefits and prepare to be called privileged and lectured on single moms in food deserts who only have time for McDonald's.

Do they think people at farmers markets want to wall them off and keep poor people away? A moment's thought and they'd realize everyone involved is trying to fill in food deserts, reduce big agriculture subsidies, that McDonald's is causing poverty in time and money, but their defensiveness and I'm-so-smart-ness blinds them.

[ip26]

I love the idea, and I'd never push for fewer farmer's markets, but I must say I've always found them more expensive, slower, and less convenient with hardly any selection. I often wind up heading to the supermarket immediately after, because I need another ingredient to cook what I've just bought.

[bradlys]

This isn’t my personal experience. Farmers markets are always more expensive than going to a grocery store. Substantially so as well.

Otherwise I would spend more time at them.