With new regulations addressing coronavirus and social distancing concerns, farmers markets in L.A. County will stay open.
, “to ensure that fresh food is available to residents,” outdoor certified farmers markets will be allowed to operate under these main conditions:
•Markets must provide handwashing stations and signs reminding customers to wash their hands and the produce they buy. “The new guidelines are welcome, because they maintain access to fresh produce while protecting the health of the public, farmers and city staff,” said Chan. Around California, county Departments of Public Health appear to be taking the lead in deciding whether farmers markets can continue to operate and establishing guidelines if they do; it is currently unclear whether theSome of the shoppers who formed unprecedented long lines to stock up at the farmers markets that remained open last weekend were glad that farmers markets will continue.
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