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(50,170 posts)mcar
(42,210 posts)That's a high price. I get them for 25 cents.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Probably organic, free range and all that...
mcar
(42,210 posts)It's about 2 miles away from me. Can't say if it's organic, though.
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George II
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Jim G.
(14,811 posts)For you to sign up multiple times to talk about.
sinkingfeeling
(51,277 posts)Maraya1969
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(51,277 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Not a puff-piece at all. I wonder if anyone's ever purchased ears of corn from a farmer's market before, or if BS is the first.
karynnj
(59,475 posts)All I can say is that their vegetables and the CSAs are very very good.
George II
(67,782 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Every weekend behind the Natural History Museum and at 94th street on Fridays to name a few.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
betsuni
(25,128 posts)and now it's mainstream.
when I first saw the OP I thought it was implying he had grown it, now I see we are extolling a buy.
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)Actually I go straight to the farm that is a mile from my house. It is beautiful there.
betsuni
(25,128 posts)the few times I've been to a farmer's market there wasn't much for sale (been a cool wet summer). You're lucky to live near a farm!
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)A small store and restaurant, rustic. They sell a lot of their produce to our local market along lots of sunflowers.
George II
(67,782 posts)And if we drive about 7 miles to the town where my wife grew up, we can pick our own corn (and apples, strawberries, and raspberries)
Local fruits and vegetables are nothing revolutionary in New England.
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)Part of the point I made here was that Bernie is focused on white farmers of VT.
Vermont Demographics
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Vermont was:
White: 94.16%
Two or more races: 2.02%
Asian: 1.68%
Black or African American: 1.36%
Other race: 0.39%
Native American: 0.34%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.05%
https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/vermont-population
He should focus on black farmers left behind. I left some links below.
George II
(67,782 posts)....is the fact that when slaves were freed and given land, little was done to give them the resources to actually WORK that land.
Their descendants are among the Black farmers that were left behind that you speak of.
A judge ordered a stay, they called it reverse racism. SMDH
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Donkees
(31,085 posts)land stewardship plans in the upcoming reconciliation bill with local farmers, as he shops. Bernie is always working.
Moreover, many of Vermont's small, family farms thrive by selling organic food that is raised to exacting standards, and Sen. Sanders has long believed that protecting and promoting Vermont's small family farms - both vegetable and dairy - is essential to maintaining Vermonts rural economy.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/issues/
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)What about the black farmers?
Rampant issues: Black farmers are still left out at USDA
In addition to forgiving debt, advocates for Black farmers want the administration to address barriers such as loan terms that favor large, wealthy farms, a complex application process, and poor service and inequity at local USDA offices.
This data affirms what our elder farmers have been saying about the U.S. Department of Agriculture for decades, said Tracy Lloyd McCurty, executive director of the Black Belt Justice Center, a legal and advocacy nonprofit that represents Black farmers. It reveals the abysmal failures of previous legal settlements in dismantling pervasive racial discrimination, she said
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/05/black-farmers-left-out-usda-497876
When will the first Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee discuss the disparity of black vs white?
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910 Black farmers had amassed more than 16 million acres of land and made up about 14 percent of farmers. The fruit of their labors fed much of America.
Now, they have fewer than 4.7 million acres. Black farms in the U.S. plummeted from 925,000 to fewer than 36,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agricultures latest farm census. And only about one in 100 farmers is Black.
What happened?
They were able to overcome the broken promise of 40 acres and a mule to the newly freed slaves a military order, later rescinded. But over the last century, they faced one obstacle after another because of their race.
Farmers needed loans to expand, to buy seed, to bridge the time between harvests. But lenders chief among them, the USDA often refused to give them money, and often rushed to foreclose. Suppliers and customers undercut them. Laws of inheritance led to the breakup of homesteads.
Now the government wants to make amends by providing billions of dollars in debt forgiveness for farmers of color as part of the pandemic relief package. But a judge has put the money on hold in the face of lawsuits filed by white farmers claiming that the program is unfair reverse discrimination.
Much More: https://apnews.com/article/Battle-for-Black-Farms-e1034c6701f55a3a5362447e0354c4cd
George II
(67,782 posts)....on what do you base the comment that Sanders is the "first chairman of the senate budget committee discussing farming and land stewardship plans"?
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)Everything is old is new again.
George II
(67,782 posts)....local corn around here (90 miles from Vermont) is about $0.50 an ear, about $0.35 if you pick it yourself.