Sample Ad #1: Take a break. Get Outdoors. Go Shopping Outdoors. See what’s in season for dinner this week. Avoid eating industrial commodity foods from far away sold under fluorescent lights. Gather the goodness created by the local earth, the local rain, the local sunshine and the local people. Take a stand against the winter […]
June 2012
Email newsletters
June 22, 2012 CategoriesMany markets have begun to use e-mail newsletters to communicate with their customers. The age of buying stamps and paper and printing a newsletter is coming to a close. E-mail newsletters can be very inexpensive to use, can be sent whenever there is market news or reminders you want to let your customers know about, […]
Supporting your community with Community Supported Agriculture: Expanding the CSA concept
June 22, 2012 CategoriesThe Story of One Family’s Ongoing Food Cupboard Experiment by Holly, Dennis and Julia Violette, February, 2011. Comments from the food cupboard at the the bottom. Summary The basic concept is for a willing donor to adopt a food cupboard for all or part of the local growing season with the goal of using one […]
Farmers’ markets and food cupboards
June 22, 2012 CategoriesSuggestions and examples of how farmers’ markets and food cupboards can work together for each others’ benefit. Food Cupboards, also called Food Pantries, are always on the lookout for food to distribute to their clients. Farmers’ Markets are gatherings of local small scale food producers offering an abundance of foods. Yet for various reasons, food […]
End of market gleaning program
June 22, 2012 CategoriesTo have surplus picked up at the end of market day at YOUR farmers’ market, why not start an End-of-Market Gleaning Program? An easy-to-implement program that provides an alternative to feeding your perfectly edible surpluses to your animals or compost pile. Staff at your local County Extension Office working with their Maine Harvest for Hunger […]