The small acre farmers here stopped doing farmers markets and now sell CSA boxes. The subscribers get organic, high quality produced every week/month and you know your produce is going to be sold regardless of the weather or other community events competing with the farmers market. I raise sheep, goats, and chickens. I start marketing the lambs & kids at breeding time taking deposits when people are excited about what will be available to them. The deposit is nonrefundable unless I don't have an animal for them because of less than expected births. CSA subscriptions are done in the spring for the same reason.
Another possibility for income might be sprouts or fodder for other farmers' small animals through the winter.
