Farmers' Markets: Success, Failure, and Management Ecology
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Foreword

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxi

Introduction

1

Overview of the Book

4

Chapter 1: ADM, a Tomato Named Local Lucy, and Small Farms: The Ecology and Reemergence of Farmers’ Markets

7

Two Food Streams

7

An Applied and Ecological Approach to Enhancing Farmers’ Markets

10

Two Food Streams Redux: “What if We Looked at the World as One Giant Farm Field?”

17

Two Food Streams Redux: “Start a Revolution With a Tomato”

21

The Research Literature of Farmers’ Markets

31

Farmers’ Markets in the United States

32

Applied Research and Farmers’ Markets

37

August Vignette

43

Chapter 2: The Nature of Oregon’s Farmers’ Markets

49

Mobile and Al Fresco

50

Months and Days of Operation

50