I have begun to formally write a history of the US farmers market movement that has developed since 1976. As some readers may know, I began to gather histories of markets more than 20 years ago, writing down reminiscences from founders, reading collected histories, and creating the start of a framework that I use to explain the re-emergence of this ancient mechanism. Take a look at this post that does its best to give an overview of this framework:

Mythbusting farmers markets

In preparation for this writing project, I have begun to collect more histories from each of those eras (as well as those outliers who don’t so neatly fit into the larger era) which I believe will become a series of articles around the modern farmers market movement and is meant to offer information to funders, shoppers, and to partners in order for farmers market communities to gain more sustained support.

I’m asking leaders to add their market history to my database through this quick form. I’ll follow up with more q for some of those who respond to ask to use them as a case study.

Here is the form to fill out:

https://forms.gle/i2YfaZhYsuiMcHnc6

And thanks.