Farmers' Markets: Success, Failure, and Management Ecology
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Market Sites

54

Producers and Products

56

Market Size and Vendor Composition

56

Farms Versus Crafts

57

Farmers and Products

59

Maintaining Localness

60

Chapter 3: Ninety Years of Oregon’s Farmers’ Markets: An Inventory of Markets and the External Influences on Their Growth and Decline

65

Counting Farmers’ Markets: An Oregon Inventory

66

Growth and Decline

66

The Problem With Definitions

67

Published Histories, Inventories, and Reports for Oregon’s Farmers’ Markets

68

What Is Driving the Current Growth of Oregon’s Farmers’ Markets?

75

Getting a Handle on “Community Building”

78

Why Oregon’s Farmers’ Markets Formed

79

Continued Adaptation

81

Chapter 4: Connecting Farmers’ Market Size and Management Organization

85

A Summary of Key Findings

88

Market Size Categories

90

Market Management Organization

92

Site Management Tools

93

Market Governance Tools

95

Labor Resource Tools

98

Chapter 5: When Things Don’t Work: Some InsightsInto Why Farmers’ Markets Close

107

Market Dynamics

108

Market Failure

108