Local Farmers Market’s Provokes Feelings Of Communal Bonding

buying from local farmers markets are socialI once knew a family of shiitake mushroom farmers, which is a variety of Japanese mushrooms. As a business, they would sell them wholesale to a group of specialty restaurants as well as to a variety of local ethnic supermarkets.

They would also often load up their truck on the weekends and head towards the local Farmers Market where they would sell the mushrooms direct to the public. When they first began doing this, however, for some reason they weren’t that successful. They knew that the quality of their produce …