Farmers share how they're protecting consumers and what shoppers need to do to stop the spread of COVID-19 while buying produce.
pandemic, the farmers markets of 2020 are vastly different entities than farmers markets of 2019.
“Sampling was one of the first things we had to get rid of,” said Brie Mazurek, communications director for the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture, which runs the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and five other farmers markets in San Francisco. Some markets may also be smaller. “Some are only selling produce,” Torres said. “You’re not going to see anyone selling woodwork or candles or dog treats or jewelry.”, many markets have special hours for elderly and immunocompromised customers, and volunteers and workers are trained to correct customers when they don’t stay a safe distance apart.
“When farmers markets are done right, they can be as safe or safer than any indoor grocery shopping experience,” Crane said. “Farmers markets have radically changed their operations. Blown-up footprints, spaced six to 10 feet apart, lots of environmental signage and messaging before, during and after, with chalk marks or tape on the ground, plus extra perimeter control so you don’t get overloaded with density.
“The City of Sonoma Farmers Market moved it off of the plaza to these baseball fields in town, and they spread it out so there’s four times the amount of space for each vendor,” Davis said. “They took a really proactive approach, and they removed any merchants that weren’t agriculture-direct. It’s clear that social distancing is a priority. But when I went to another one, I said, ‘Hell, no.’ There wasn’t social distancing, and there didn’t seem to be any protocols in place.
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