CLICK HERE to view this short slideshow that we created for a recent conversation with SNAP Educators from throughout the state. Many SNAP Educators assist their local farmers’ market with outreach and promotion of SNAP, Maine Harvest Bucks (or other nutrition incentives), WIC, and other low-income […]
Signage
Farmer’s Market Signs
January 28, 2016 CategoriesWhere are Your Farmers’ Market Signs? Maine is largely free of the scourge of billboards, but at the cost of some fairly complex rules around signage (as recently outlined in an article in the Portland Press Herald). Fortunately, the state allows farmers’ markets more latitude than bricks-and-mortar businesses in the area of signage. Here is […]
SNAP Promotional Materials
January 27, 2016 CategoriesHere’s a simple poster you can customize easily. (We hope to have more soon!) Generic SNAP Outreach Poster 2015 Here are some sample materials from other markets: 2015 Lewiston Farmers Market Summer Poster How to use food stamps flier Lewiston Farmers Market SNAP Outreach Poster 2014 with coupon – Lewiston SNAP Outreach Rack Card POLAND […]
Displaying prices: On a blackboard or on the produce?
November 28, 2014 CategoriesDetermining what price to put on your produce is certainly hard enough, but putting some price on your produce is itself an important aid to selling. No matter how appealing your display, how luscious looking and tempting, by not displaying a price on it you are losing sales. There are shoppers who may like the […]
Using the word “organic” when selling at farmers’ markets
July 16, 2012 Categoriesby Heather Omand, MOFGA Organic Marketing Coordinator [email protected] MOFGA encourages market members and managers to monitor the use of the term “organic” at your market. The National Organic Program law, http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop, requires compliance with its regulations in order to use the term organic. If you gross more than $5,000 a year from the sale of organic […]