permaculture

["paul" <charybda@newmex.com>]

This study is encouraging and very misleading. The study is about people's 
preferences and not about their actions. While in the study 30% "preferred" 
buying direct from farmers or at farmers markets, in my experience of selling 
my produce at farmers markets, we don't even get close to 10% of the 
population coming through any of the markets in my region. If you think about 
a city of 500,000 people, would it even be possible for 150,000 people to get 
through a farmers market on a Saturday morning? Impossible. That's more 
people than fit in any football stadium.

The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico USA sees about 5,000 people through a market 
peak season. The population is 70,000 and the market draws from a larger 
surrounding area not in that count. 

Paul Cross