Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 8/3/16


Next week (August 7-13) is National Farmers Market week, a time to celebrate all the hard-working farmers and ranchers who sell at farmers markets. The direct-market farmers and ranchers in the Sacramento, California-area also have reason to celebrate: they generate twice as much regional economic impact per dollar of output as do other area food producers who don’t engage in direct-marketing, according to reports from the University of California (UC) Davis and UC Cooperative Extension.

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