A plan to sharply increase the fee that vendors must pay to participate in the popular downtown farmers market in Des Moines, Iowa, has stirred up controversy, according to an article in the Des Moines Register.
One market patron who weighed in on the controversy in a comment posted on the newspaper’s Web site wondered if something good might come of it. The commentator who called himself StantheMan surmised:
"Maybe this will lead to a drop in the number of ‘non farmer's market’ type vendors. You know, like the wicker wall hangings, furniture, ‘stuff’ made out of ‘junk,’ -- all the things that no self-respecting farmer would ever peddle. Maybe get back to .... food? Veggies, things that actual farmers actually market. On second thought a fee increase will probably drive out the actual farmers!"
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