i like to go to the farmers markets to buy local veggies and fruits.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A farmers' market (also farmers market) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses, and sometimes prepared foods and beverages. Farmers' markets exist in many countries worldwide and reflect the local culture and economy. The size of the market may be just a few stalls or it may be as large as several city blocks. Due to their nature, they tend to be less rigidly regulated than retail produce shops. They are distinguished from public markets, which are generally housed in permanent structures, open year-round, and offer a variety of non-farmer/non-producer vendors, packaged foods and non-food products. The current concept of a farmers' market is similar to past concepts, but different in relation to other forms \u2013 as aspects of consumer retailing, overall, continue to shift over time. Similar forms existed before the Industrial age, but often formed part of broader markets, where suppliers of food and other goods gathered to retail their wares. Trading posts began a shift toward retailers who sold others' products more than their own.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you ever go to farmers' markets? It is a cool idea to get produce directly from the farmers to consumers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know if I have one nearby where I live.  Are they a year round thing?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hmm I guess in some areas they actually do have them year round, so the farmers have all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and even meats and cheeses."}, {"role": "user", "content": "My sister lives in a different city, and she told me she could use her food stamps for it. Do you know how that works?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've never heard of using food stamps there at a farmer's market before. Hmm. How does it work normally?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "She said there is some sort of table you can get double value vouchers, or something like that. I think it is so city people eat vegetables."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may provide for that type of food purchasing in certain cities. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "So the meats and cheeses are made locally? By like, artisan farmers?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, the farmers will offer meats from their farms and local cheeses or other prepared foods and beverages like honey or tea."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It does sound cool. Are they just like once a week on maybe Saturday, or are they an every day thing?"}]