Number of the Day: 1/3
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 09. 4.07
1/3 -- the number out of all US farms that are actually within metropolitan areas, approximately (more than you thought, wasn't it?), representing 18% of the total farmland in this country, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
In the same vein, only 3.5 cents of every dollar goes to the farmer when food is purchased at the grocery store, according to the Sustain AgriFood Network [pdf] versus the 80 to 90 cents on the dollar that goes to the farmer when food is purchased at a farmer's market.
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1/3
The number of living human beings that planet Earth cannot sustain.
1/3 - the part of human population exceeding Earth's sustainable capacity.
1/3
months of the year that farmer's markets are open :(
If farmers get such a large share, then why are farmer's markets often more expensive?