The Farmers Market Project was organized as an experiential learning project for the Fall 2003 Economic Anthropology class at Radford University.  The research team studied the socio-economic world of farmers markets across southwest Virginia using interviewing, observation, censuses, mapping  and participant-observation methods, and compiled a volume of their research findings, The Social and Economic World of Farmers Markets.

















To read the web publication of The Social and Economic World of Farmers Markets, click here:  Farmers Markets Web Pub.pdf

Farmers Market Project, 2003-4

  1. -An ethnographic study of Farmers Markets in Southwestern Virginia conducted by a Radford University Economic Anthropology class research team.

  2. -The team produced a volume of their research findings, The Social and Economic World of Farmers Markets
    (2004). 


Fall 2003 Farmers Market Research Team: Jeri St. Clair, Josh Spencer, Jessica Hamby, Joseph Gregory, Kirstin Sawicki, Garrett Smythe, Becky Minter, Tim Jamba, Justin Dowdy, David Self 
 (not pictured: Richard Sarver, Steve Storer).

Radford University Project Director/Professor: Dr. Mary LaLone 
(not pictured above)

Please cite all research from this web publication as:


(Chapter author)

2004  (Chapter title.) IN The Social and Economic World of Farmers Markets. Mary B. LaLone, ed.,  Radford, VA: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University.  Pp. (pages used).  Electronic document: URL information.