Creating a Farmers Market Living Lab: Lessons Learned in Growing a Farmers Market

This booklet is the result of asking the question, “What can we do to increase sales and attendance at our market?”, reports the results from using our market as a “living lab” to systematically test ideas to answer this question.

RAFI’s “Guide to SNAP/EBT for NC Farmers Markets: Steps, Best Practices, and Resources”

This guide is for farmers market organizers, public health professionals, and food justice advocates who want to learn how farmers markets can accept SNAP/EBT benefits. The guide includes an overview of SNAP/EBT in North Carolina and how to implement a successful SNAP/EBT program at farmers markets. The guide also describes farmers market nutrition incentive programs and how farmers markets can implement their own incentive program. Download the guide here.

As a companion to the Guide’s section on record-keeping, RAFI is also offering a new tool, the Guide to Excel for Farmers Market SNAP/EBT Programs. This downloadable Excel workbook contains instructions, tips, templates for SNAP/EBT record-keeping in Excel 2013; we hope to offer a guide for additional versions of Excel and Google Sheets in the future. Download the Excel guide here.

Farmers Market and Faith Community Partnerships: A Guide for Market Managers

The Farmers Market and Faith Community Partnership Guide is a first edition publication from Rural Advancement Foundation International. The Guide lays out how farmers market managers can identify, reach out to, and build partnerships with local faith communities that will strengthen the market’s outreach, awareness, and accessibility. The Guide includes case studies from farmers markets with existing faith community partnerships as well as resources and templates farmers market managers can use. As this is the first edition, we recognize we didn’t capture everything. If you have comments about how to improve this resource, please contact RAFI.

Q&A—Healthy Food Incentives at Michigan Farmers Markets

This Q&A accompanies Michigan State University’s Economics of Healthy Food Incentives at Michigan Farmers Markets report.

Economics of Healthy Food Incentives at Michigan Farmers Markets

This study, conducted by Michigan State University in partnership with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and Fair Food Network, found that offering SNAP and Double Up at markets resulted in positive and distinct increases to direct agricultural sales beyond the value of the benefits themselves. It also reveals data-driven insights into SNAP families’ shopping behaviors when incentives are in place.

Guidelines and Procedures for Rhode Island SFMNP Farmers

Guidelines and Procedures for Rhode Island SFMNP Farmers

WIC Farmers’ Market Training

WIC Farmers’ Market Training Powerpoint

Alabama Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Application

Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Application for Alabama

Tips for Shopping on a Budget at the Farmers Market—New Mexico

This guide offers tips and advice to New Mexico families who want to get the most out of their food budget at the farmers market.

Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Grant Program (FINI) 2015 Program Results

The Agricultural Act of 2014 created a new competitive grant program to test the idea that providing incentives to SNAP program participants to buy fruits and vegetables could increase the consumption of produce and improve dietary health. e rst Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive grants were made in the Spring 2015, and this report summarizes the results of the medium and large size projects at both farmers markets and grocery stores.