Yellow Springs 4 Seasons Farmer's Market

The farmer's market is a vital part of knitting together a very large segment of this tiny town in terms of creating a social space where people meet and at the same time support local producers and merchants and get good food (including killer cheese and croissants) not transported over 1500 miles. This is no doubt true in many places. The difference is that YS is an oasis of community, environmentally committed people, and free thinkers just 8 miles from the air force base, the biggest employer in the State of Ohio, and another 6 from the city used as the "typical" American city (my home town of Dayton) which is ravaged by everything from white flight to Wallmart sprawl. The fact that a market like ours, and a village like ours is vibrant has extraordinary symbolic capital.