This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food and in agritourism, including customers from towns in the fringe and from the larger nearby urban center. The farm stores catered to a rural idyll that reflects cultural conceptions of farm life. We suggest the multifunctional landscape of the farm store provides economic and cultural benefits, and should be considered as sustaining agriculture. The study revealed that farm store operators in particular share the rural idyll of urban consumers, though agritourism operators are more consciously including rural elements in their operations.

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• Newman, L., Powell, L. J., Nickel, J., Anderson, D., Jovanovic, L., Mendez, E., Mitchell, B., Kelly-Freiberg, K., (2025), "Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.211)

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1. agritourism
2. local food
3. multifunctionality
4. Rural/urban fringe farm retail

Original publication: Newman, Lenore; Powell, Lisa Jordan; Nickel, Jennifer; Anderson, Dylan; Jovanovic, Lea; Mendez, Eileen; Mitchell, Barbara; Kelly-Freiberg, Kathryn. "Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 4-23. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.211. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.