You see it on your market’s signs. You probably have to write it at least a dozen times a year. Not everyone has the same understanding of basic English grammar to get it right every time. Here’s how an English teacher might explain it: Farmer’s Market: a market belonging to a single farmer. Farmers’ Market: […]
Best Practices
Dependent Markets vs. Independent Markets
June 22, 2012 CategoriesConsider for a moment the way farmers’ markets are organized. Not whether or how they are incorporated, not how many or what kind of members they have, but rather how and whether the membership is involved in the management of the business of being a farmers’ market. There seems to be two general categories: those […]
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, […]
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 […]
Local Food: Perspectives from farmers, chefs, locavores and others
June 14, 2012 CategoriesThe Turkey Farm has a good article in their Summer 2002 edition of The Turkey Times newsletter on An easier way to food security. It’s about half way down the page, and talks about how small local farms make for better food security than large distant farms. Local Food is fully discussed pro and con at the […]