Category Archives: American Farmland Trust Survey

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Advertising & Signage

FMC August 12, 2015

To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Strengthen Producer-Only Rules

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To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Enforcing Labeling Rules

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To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Management Changes

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To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Changes in Location

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To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Markets Can Help Farmer Vendors: Number of Markets

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To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers who sell at them, American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition teamed up with C2It Marketing to complete a national survey of farmers who sell at farmers markets. This is part of a series of posts on the results of this survey. Read…

How Farmer Vendors Say Markets Can Help Them

FMC August 11, 2015

  Demand for local food continues to grow. And as the demand for local food grows, so does the demand for local farmers markets. Markets are seeking ways to deepen their role within the community and help farmers establish avenues to expand their business. To better understand the evolving needs of farmers markets and the farmers…

Farmers Markets: Health, Access and Community

FMC June 30, 2015

Originally published June 25, 2015 in Agri-Pulse. Back in the 1980s when I sold produce from my brother’s family farm at farmers markets in Boston, there were maybe 15 farmers markets in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Today, there are nearly 300 summer and winter farmers markets.Since then, farmers markets have exploded nation-wide, driven in part…