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October 19, 2009

Farmers markets growing in number

First lady Michelle Obama got a farmers market in her White House neighborhood this summer. And so did plenty of others.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers markets has grown by 12.6 percent over last year - an increase of 589 markets from 4,685 in 2008 to 5,274 in 2009.

The growth is impressive. The last time the USDA did such a census, over a two-year period from 2006 to 2008, the increase was only 6.8 percent.

There were only 1,755 farmers markets when the USDA became keeping count in 1994.

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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