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BY LAUREL MILLER

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WITH OVER 4,000 FARMERS MARKETS now operating in the United States, it’s time to celebrate how much our food supply has improved in quality--and how much eating and shopping locally has done to conserve our precious resources and provide safeguards for what we eat.

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But even at this pinnacle of popularity, many small farms struggle to survive against conventional and corporate organic farms, and not all farmers markets are created equal. Many markets allow vendors to sell produce that has been purchased from an outside