A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell their produce, live animals and plants, and sometimes prepared foods and beverages. Farmers' markets exist in many countries worldwide and reflect the local culture and economy. The size of the market may be just a few stalls or it may be as large as several city blocks. Due to their nature, they tend to be less rigidly regulated than retail produce shops.
An autumn farmers' market in Farmington, Michigan
A farmers' market at twilight in Layyah, Pakistan
Blueberries in late July 2023 at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal
Auf dem Vogelmarkt (women offering hares and wild birds), 18th-19th century
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner), while employees of the farm are known as farm workers. However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land, or crops or raises animals by labor and attention.
Woman working in a rice field near Junagadh, Gujarat, India, in 2013.
Afghani farmers learning about greenhouses
A farmer in Nicaragua
Meeting of the Eastern Illinois Beekeepers Association, 1914