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2020 Call for Board Nominations
Stephanie Fenty November 14, 2019FMC is currently soliciting nominees who are interested in running for a seat on the Board of Directors during the 2020 annual election. FMC’s volunteer Board of Directors consists of individuals with demonstrated leadership experience in the field of farmers markets or sustainable food systems, and who support the FMC mission of strengthening farmers markets…
Summit Debrief
Darlene Wolnik November 1, 2019The 2nd annual National Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit took place October 7-9, 2019 in Rosemont, Illinois. FMC hosted pre-Summit activities, including a state & network leader meeting, an emerging issues panel, and discussion groups on markets training and technical assistance needs. For the second year, Farmers Market Coalition gave its all for the Summit, including bringing the entire FMC…
TED Talk: Why You Should Shop At Your Local Farmers Market
Darlene Wolnik October 1, 2019TED Speaker Mohammad Modarres developed the first-ever Zabihah Halal and Glatt Kosher “Interfaith Meat” to make faith-based foods more accessible. Here he talks about one solution to the farmer crisis. (transcript)00:13: It’s been about a decade since the last financial crisis, yet this industry has never been bigger. Legislation that was meant to better regulate its largest…
Open Letter to FNS
Stephanie Fenty September 18, 2019The following letter was sent to FNS in September of 2019 on behalf of markets and the organizations that support them around the country. See the PDF here. Brandon Lipps Deputy Under Secretary Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services United States Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave SW Washington DC 20250 Dear Mr. Lipps, In a…
Millions Celebrate Markets During 20th Annual National Farmers Market Week
Stephanie Fenty September 3, 2019Homer Farmers Market in Alaska loved their free NFMW banner! @homerakfarmersmarket The 20th Annual National Farmers Market Week took place from August 4 to August 10. After some time crunching the numbers, the FMC team is delighted to report that NFMW 2019 was a great success! Thank you all for your hard work and participation!…
Metrics/Evaluation 2.0, Part One
Darlene Wolnik August 27, 2019An update from FMC Senior Advisor Darlene Wolnik on the ongoing development of its Metrics product and on FMC’s work in providing overall evaluation and technical assistance to markets and networks. Background: FMC and evaluation Across the last decade, the increased use of data by market organizations to make decisions and to enlist new…
Metrics/Evaluation 2.0, Part Two
Darlene Wolnik August 26, 2019An update from FMC Senior Advisor Darlene Wolnik on the ongoing development of its Metrics product and on FMC’s work in providing overall evaluation and technical assistance to markets and networks. Part Two: Market Needs To illustrate the spectrum of different market needs in terms of evaluation, here is an outline of some market organizational…
Metrics/Evaluation 2.0, Part Three
Darlene WolnikAn update from FMC Senior Advisor Darlene Wolnik on the ongoing development of its Metrics product and on FMC’s work in providing overall evaluation and technical assistance to markets and networks. How can networks help markets? Overall, we find that networks have to restrain from prescribing all of the data points that markets should be…
Metrics/Evaluation 2.0, Part Four
Darlene WolnikAn update from FMC Senior Advisor Darlene Wolnik on the ongoing development of its Metrics product and on FMC’s work in providing overall evaluation and technical assistance to markets and networks. Next Steps for FMC Inside Metrics, we have continued to work on solutions for seamless data uploads, more market-level and project-level functionality for markets…
NFMW 2019: Celebrating Entrepreneurship at Farmers Markets
Stephanie Fenty August 4, 2019This National Plant-Based Foods Company’s Best Launch Pad? The Farmer’s Market How Hodo went from farmers market favorite to national powerhouse National Farmers Market Week is finally here, and we are highlighting one of the many examples of entrepreneurs who started at farmers markets. Hodo is a perfect example of how farmers markets can stimulate…
