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Results from the Local Food Marketing Practices Survey are in!
Honesta Romberger December 21, 2016It’s here! The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has released the results from the first ever Local Food Marketing Practices Survey. Farmers markets and local farms suffer from a lack of comprehensive data on their activities, which stymies strategic decision making and growth. As one of multiple efforts to address this issue, the Farmers Market…
Portland Farmers Market Does the Dishes
Liz Comiskey February 22, 2016Last summer, four of the markets under the 25-year-old Portland Farmers Market’s umbrella made a big change to the way they handle their waste. As part of the Market’s ongoing initiative to reduce the amount of waste generated by the markets, they replaced hot food vendors’ compostable dishware with durable, reusable dishes and silverware. Compostable dishes…
Coming Full Circle: Reflections on Being a New Farmers Market Vendor from FMC’s Former Executive Director
Liz Comiskey September 25, 2015Nervous and bleary-eyed from two consecutive late nights baking, labeling, and scrambling to generate last minute signage, I found a parking space, chased down someone on market staff, and began unloading my boxes. I forgot to write down the space number I had been assigned: E42? F24? Something like that. I have no tent,…
Be FMC’s Next Guest Instagrammer!
Honesta Romberger September 16, 2015Instagram is a unique social media platform that uses visual content to connect your story with a broad and diverse audience. As your follower base grows, so does your ability to share and promote your market with more and more people, prompting the potential to showcase your message on a global scale. In other words,…
Be FMC's Next Guest Instagrammer!
Honesta RombergerInstagram is a unique social media platform that uses visual content to connect your story with a broad and diverse audience. As your follower base grows, so does your ability to share and promote your market with more and more people, prompting the potential to showcase your message on a global scale. In other words,…
Discover Market Fresh : Apply for Nationwide Food Preservation Education Program
Liz Comiskey May 27, 2015We are pleased to again partner with Jarden Consumer Solutions as we celebrate the fifth year helping Farmers Market Coalition members educate communities on the benefits of buying, storing and sharing locally grown and sourced food. Nearly a quarter of a million people have participated in the food preservation education program over the past four…
What Would You Do?
Jen O'Brien November 25, 2014Hello FMC Members and Supporters, Last month we announced that FMC was selected by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to assist with the creation and implementation of two separate initiatives: administration of $3.3 million in support grants for SNAP at farmers markets, and the distribution of $700,000 in EBT equipment for existing SNAP…
Help Us Bring the ‘Power of Produce’ Nationwide!
Jen O'BrienAs we approach Thanksgiving, FMC can’t think of the impact our farmers, market managers, and friends have made on strengthening communities without feeling extremely grateful. This year, you have opened the floodgates to an additional demographic eager to lend a voice to our market community – have you noticed? Children! Markets are making an effort…
Help Us Bring the 'Power of Produce' Nationwide!
Jen O'BrienAs we approach Thanksgiving, FMC can’t think of the impact our farmers, market managers, and friends have made on strengthening communities without feeling extremely grateful. This year, you have opened the floodgates to an additional demographic eager to lend a voice to our market community – have you noticed? Children! Markets are making an effort…
Perspectives from the Field: Agriculture, Culture, and the Creation of Meaning in Northern New Mexico
Liz Comiskey July 9, 2014by Maclovia Quintana, research & education intern People have been farming in northern New Mexico for generations running into centuries, my own family among them. When I first came to Yale in 2007, I did not expect that I would eventually end up studying the very place I came from. But this is the nature…
