{"id":188,"date":"2010-08-30T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=188"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","slug":"farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers&#8217; Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2432\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2432\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2432\" title=\"Farmers' Market\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Ballard_Farmers_Market_-_vegetables-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"Farmers' Market\" width=\"620\" height=\"457\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmers&#39; Market, Wikimedia Creative Commons photo by Joe Mabel<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The recent growth of farmers\u2019 markets across Appalachia is part of the effort of mountain farmers to survive in a national market dominated by large-scale agribusiness. The Department of Agriculture identifies more than 800 farmers\u2019 markets throughout the region. One of the most notable is the Western North Carolina Farmers\u2019 Market in Asheville begun in 1977. Shoppers flock to farmers\u2019 markets for produce that is locally grown and superior in freshness, variety and often in price to that found in supermarket chains. Many buyers feel they are benefiting their local community. For the farmer it means direct access to the consumer and the opportunity to sell their goods at retail prices. Farmers\u2019 markets are in the mountain tradition of self-sufficiency and barter which has kept communities strong.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/farmersmarket60Mx.mp3|titles=farmersmarket60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent growth of farmers\u2019 markets across Appalachia is part of the effort of mountain farmers to survive in a national market dominated by large-scale agribusiness. The Department of Agriculture identifies more than 800 farmers\u2019 markets throughout the region. . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[33,237,294,549],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-fruits","tag-honey","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}