Vermont farmers markets can have pandemic safety costs covered with funds from USDA …

Market manager Keri Pecor says early on, they used an online ordering model where people could pick up items from the farmers market.

“We were allowed to reopen after about a month, it was, you know, ‘How do we buy all of these things that are now really expensive?’ Hand sanitizer, for example, you couldn’t even get it, and it was, you know, $100 a gallon!” Pecor said.

“We have to get approval from the state for anything that we do on the lot, because it’s a state-owned lot,” she said.

“And the market has really rebounded,” she said.

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