read theory, radlib foodlib: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22farmers+markets%22+neoliberalism&btnG=

Who owns those marketplaces? Are they privatized entities that have stolen and enclosed our public commons for "public private partnerships"? Is this accumulation by dispossession, like those community centers demolished by white supremacist Reagan neoliberals in '80s movies like Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market

wikipedia's suspiciously class unconscious article shills for this praxis which in my experience is mostly designed for petite bourgeois racist Karens who delude themselves with utopian dreams of universal inclusion (shoutout to Maintenance Phase podcast's ep on the foundational neoliberal ideology foodlib Michael Pollan https://podbay.fm/p/maintenance-phase/e/1649149200)

The Karen's romanticized view of food production like "I know exactly where my cow is farmed thanks to these nifty holocaust barcodes". They aren't very inclusive of the working class whose actual needs and desires often conflict with landowners. Check out this pure ideology:

the support of independent growers by local community members can enhance local economic opportunities and health & wellness in poor communities (the article then links to: "Dual Labor Market Theory and the Institutionalization of Farmers' Markets: Marginalized Workers Adapting to Inhospitable Conditions in Louisiana")

"ACTUALLY, it's good praxis that women and ethnic minorities are secondary citizens because they can be liberated by being our unregulated slave contract workers, wow, I love being a satanic kulak attacking and dethroning God to steal his divine creation which he made for you and me independent grower!!! Michael Pollan is so right about Joel Salatin's libertarian utopia!" :matt:

also this:

Modern industrial food production's advantages over prior methods depend largely on modern, cheap, fast transport and limited product variability. But transport costs and delays cannot be eliminated. So where distance strained industrial suppliers' reach, where consumers had strong preference for local variety, farmers' markets remained competitive with other forms of food retail. Starting in the mid-2000s, consumer demand for foods that are fresher (spend less time in transit) and for foods with more variety—has led to growth of farmers' markets as a food-retailing mechanism.

"Degrowth isn't a popular grassroots movements, it must be the WEF and Klaus Schwab who are pushing that purity fetish ideology on our innocent petite bourgeois Karen consumers. I don't know why we see this behavior from the same women who obsessively buy Goop products to remove 'toxins' and make them feel less polluted and sterilized by late capitalism. Actually Walmart is a model for a socialist planned economy, their logistics are obviously superior to local production if you read the science from Monsanto. We need those highly processed and preservative filled products made from soy planted in the burnt remains of The Amazon/Ukraine, Lula and Putin are fucking reactionary green fascists for denying my labor aristocrat comrades cheap burger meat! My cows will NEVER eat locally sourced high protein feed bugs!!!" - woke DSA/anti-woke patriotic socialists united in their 'consumer freedom for individuals' Liz Warren Reaganite ideology.