According to the Fargo Forum, you can get Snickers-flavored candies, T-shirts and flip-flops, beeswax candles and assorted knitted items at a new “farmers market” in Minot, North Dakota. Oh, and there's also someone selling bags of corn. This “farmers market” was the brainchild of a vendor of machine-embrodiered dishtowels who set up a group to run the market called Farmers' Market and Beyond.
Beyond, indeed. The market operates under loose rules that give the market management leeway to permit the sale of anything, whether produced in the area or not:
“The Farmers’ Market and Beyond project is open to area produce growers, home crafters and agriculture products. Other interested parties are welcome to apply for participation and will be accepted if they are a good fit for the philosophy and mission of the Farmers’ Market.”
There's nothing in the rules about exactly what that "philosophy and mission" is.
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