Shoppers queue to enter Otago Farmers Market in Dunedin this morning. PHOTO: SHAWN MCAVINUEOne of New Zealand’s biggest farmers markets could be more like a ghost town in Dunedin today. And if the rules were not relaxed, a scaled-back Otago Farmers Market could spell the end for some vendors, market manager Michele Driscoll said. PHOTOS: STEPHEN JAQUIERYFor smaller markets, 100 people would be appropriate, but 100 people at the Otago Farmers Market and ‘‘you barely would see them’’, she said. It’s about the local economy and it’s about food resilience.’’The first Otago Farmers Market of 2021 attracts hundreds of shoppers.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 11, 2021 00:42 UTC