Small markets are notorious for gouging the fuck out of the sellers. Want a booth at a farmers market or a makers market? Well you should expect to spend between $50-200 for the luxury to sell your own goods.

Don't forget that most of these aren't audited and you'll be selling handmade goods next to someone else who is selling garbage from alibaba. Or you'll be selling homegrown produce next to someone selling boxes of produce he bought from someone else.

Most of these markets are simply not profitable to farmers or makers. The buyers are few and they end up buying the cheaper shit after balking at the prices of anything made with care.

I live in an agricultural area and food from farmers markets is usually cheaper than at the store. But we have tons of farmers markets around here so maybe thats a factor.

1. Economy of scale doesn’t apply any more.
2. No-one is price-gouging the farmer.

You know, some of them were just reselling grocery store stuff as their own.

This is dumb and the amount of people upvoting is a perfect demonstration of why we got a second Trump administration.

... isn't the market a middle man? They charge for the booths.