Thursday, August 11, 2022
Summertime means fresh, mouth-watering produce, from sweet corn to tomatoes, cucumbers, berries and more! Wadena County is home to bountiful farmland and farming operations that offer their products to residents in various outlets like farmer’s markets, community-supported agriculture and grocery stores.
August 7 - 13 is National Farmers Market Week and a perfect opportunity to join the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in promoting and assisting these community treasures.
More than just aisles of vendors shopping their fruits and vegetable, farmer’s markets are big business. In 2020, the USDA reported that farmers’ markets and Community Supported agriculture had $739 million in direct-to-consume...