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SNAP Matters for Farmers Markets
Diana Broadaway January 30, 2026It has been a year of grappling with immense change in our country, including in the local food sector. In July 2025, the Trump Administration passed the OBBBA/H.R. 1, drastically reducing funding for several important social programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). As part of this budget reconciliation bill, $186 billion was removed…
Program Review for 2025
Darlene Wolnik December 16, 2025As FMC moves into its 20th year, we are actively reflecting on our work over that time, even as we are planning for a more dynamic future where FMC is responding in real time to the needs of our sector while growing leadership and amplifying the innovation among our market leaders. In terms of program,…
Join the 2025/2026 POP Club Community of Practice
Darlene Wolnik September 9, 2025Farmers Market Coalition is kicking off a 2-year POP Club reflection and resource-share among market with POP Clubs, leading to a new revised Guide.This project is in partnership with the Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association (PCFMA)* which operates the club at many of their sites. POP started in May 2011 at the Oregon City Farmers Market in Oregon City, Oregon. It was created by the…
Results from survey on federal grant freezes and cancellations
Darlene Wolnik April 2, 2025FMC sent out a survey to markets and state associations through our listservs asking for information on any funding freezes from their federal grants. About 20 organizations responded to the survey directly, with another 8 offering information via email. The low level of responses for an FMC survey also points to another issue that FMC…
U.S. farmers market attendance and experiences: Descriptive results from a national survey
Darlene Wolnik February 25, 2025To provide farmers market leaders and researchers with new insights about farmers market attendees, given shifting consumer preferences and demographics, we conducted a nearly nationally representative survey in the United States. Among the 5,141 respondents, 38.51% reported attending farmers markets infrequently (i.e., five or fewer times per year), and 41.78% reported attending with more regularity…
FMC Spotlights: Texas Center for Local Food
Honesta Romberger August 7, 2024Welcome to FMC Spotlights! Where we share the work of our incredible partners and members. In this first spotlight interview, FMC’s food access project manager Nino Budabin McQuown talks to Sue Beckwith, Yelitza Garcia, Anna Wright Smith, and Susan Barker of the Texas Center for Local Food (TCLF). TCLF is FMC’s state partner in Texas,…
For the first time, both U.S. House and Senate recognize National Farmers Market Week
Honesta Romberger August 5, 2024By Ben Feldman, FMC Policy Director FMC is pleased to announce that for the first time, the U.S. House of Representatives will recognize National Farmers Market Week (August 4-10, 2024) through a bipartisan House resolution. In doing so, the House joins the Senate (after passing its first NFMW resolution last year) and U.S. Department of…
California’s Farmers Markets Save State Funding for Matching Programs
Honesta Romberger August 1, 2024By Allen Moy, Minni Forman, Andy Naja-Riese and Sam Greenlee The State of California is big. It is the most populous state in the nation with 25% more residents than the next largest state. California is long; over 650 miles from the Oregon border to the Mexican border. And California’s economy is large; if California…
Farmers Markets Nationwide Ready to Kick Off 25th Annual National Farmers Market Week
Honesta Romberger July 22, 2024PHOTOS AND NFMW TOOLKIT: https://bit.ly/FMC_NFMW24 PRESS RELEASE: FARMERS MARKETS NATIONWIDE READY TO KICK OFF 25th ANNUAL NATIONAL FARMERS MARKET WEEK July 22, 2024 – National Farmers Market Week (NFMW), a yearly event celebrating the vital role farmers markets play in our nation’s food system, will take place at participating markets across America between August 4-10,…
1890 University Farmers Market Pilot Site Visits
Honesta Romberger June 26, 2024In the fall of 2023, FMC Project Manager, Diana Broadaway, and USDA Market Manager, Toi Thompson and Assistant Manager, Tomi Ajiboye, made in-person visits to the three universities participating in the 1890 University Farmers Market Pilot as part of a cooperative agreement between FMC and the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service titled “Increasing Food Access through…
