This weekend I went to the Charleston Farmers' Market to do a survey of variety like I did at the Santa Cruz Farmers' Market. I was absolutely blown away by the numbers. As I mentioned in my earlier post, Charleston seems to have a market with farmers, but not a farmers' market. Here are the results from my survey. It was relatively casual, so there may be some errors. Also, I did not include vendors selling prepared foods (i.e. - to be eaten there, such as crepes), which would change these percentages even more out of favor for the farmers.
7 (9%) were Animal Product Vendors (eggs, meat, cheese, milk, honey, shrimp, etc)
10 (12%) were Fruit and Vegetable Vendors
18 (22%) were Processed Food Vendors (pasta, bread, spices, canned goods, kettle corn, olive oil, herbs, etc, and non-food farm products such as flowers)
46 (57%) were Non-food Vendors (art, jewelry, hats, candles, etc)
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