
Covid, Farmers Markets, and City Hall
The pandemic of 2020 has wrought incomprehensible devastation and still it has been powerfully instructive. Intertwined with many threads of public health disparities, racial injustices, and abject failures of governance, we have also more widely exposed the critical frailties of the dominant, industrial food system. My focus here is to emphasize the value of public street space and the City of Seattle’s treatment of our farmers markets during the pandemic.
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