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Farmers' Markets Adjust To COVID-19 Restrictions

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published July 21, 2020 at 3:45 PM EDT
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Shoppers and vendors wear face-coverings and keep their distance at the Farmers' Market at Forest Park
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Shoppers have plenty of space at the Farmers' Market at Forest Park
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Social distancing requirements keep shoppers six-feet apart as they wait at the popular Red Fire Farm stand at the Farmers' Market at Forest Park.
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The Farmers' Market at Forest Park opened 3 weeks later than usual and with fewer vendors than last year.
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Vendors are spaced out in a large parking lot.
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   Like everything else, farmers’ markets have made changes for the sake of health and safety.

    After delaying its opening for a few weeks, the Farmers’ Market at Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts is now into its 23rd season.

           With the growing season in the Northeast now at its peak, the weekly market today was bustling.

    WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the longtime market manager Belle Rita Novak.
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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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