Local markets are intended to bring vendors from across communities together, such as the Peral’s Maker’s Market on Sunday morning.

Behind the scenes, however, vendors are divided on how to move forward amid tariffs.

Mira Matcha sources its matcha directly from Kyushu, Japan. Its owner, Marissa Gamez, said she has had to get creative in the face of tariffs.

At first, Gamez placed a fast-tracked bulk order of matcha in order to avoid the higher cost.

However, as the world has dealt with a matcha shortage, Gamez said she had no choice but to raise prices.

“The farms we’re working with were like, ’Hey, we need to mail this out by this date because if we don’t, it’s going to go from 15% to 24% to potentially 34%, and it was really scary,” she said.

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