Free Republic

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill and Vickie Thomas find in Columbus, Ohio, what they never will see at their farm: a million potential customers a year at the North Market, a farmers' market. It's that traffic level that has allowed them to hold on to their family farm. "It gives us a so-called store where there's lots of people," said Thomas, who grows apples, peaches, plums and blueberries in Philo, about an hour east of Columbus. "When you sit ... at the farm and wait for them to come, it just doesn't happen," he said. "Farmers' markets are what's keeping small...