01-08-2018, 02:52 PM
(01-08-2018, 01:05 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The author's mention that their focus is San Diego and point to the fact that most of these garden or markets are in areas that are gentrified or have higher incomes. They also use two local non profits with different methods as case studies and compare the changes in their neighborhoods over the last decade.
Based on my own experience, Baltimore's markets are more like San Diego and less like what you're describing in LA. If you actually read their work and don't go off of the reports from conservative outlets, no definitive statements along those lines are made.
We have a mixture, but it comes from being an an agricultural area. We were the breadbasket of the Confederacy for a reason. We do have a lot of smaller farmers' markets around that are much like SSF talks about in LA, but the major ones tend to be a different matter. Though even so, they aren't entirely gentrified. There is some, don't get me wrong, but that tends to be more of the prepared foods and artisans. The produce peddlers, that is a good price. Also, the meat is a bit high, but it's also forest raised pork, things like that.
