By registering before December 31st, 2016, participants will save $10 on the registration fee for MFFM’s annual convention, January 29th, 2017. Click here to register online.
Some of the day’s workshops are still being finalized, but the confirmed topics include:
- Bring the whole family: integrating youth and family programming at the farmers’ market
- Proactive approaches to food safety
- Partnering with municipalities: It’s a team effort
- What’s the plan? How to make and sustain an effective SNAP outreach plan
- Keeping the peace: Dealing with difficult people on both sides of the tent
- Do I stay or do I go? Evaluating if a market is right for you
- Breaking federal grants down to size: Find funding to grow your market business
- Collecting and using data to tell your market’s story and strategize for growth
- Welcome your customers to market and keep them coming back
- WIC farmer authorization training
- Weights and Measures Division of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry: scales testing
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service: SNAP Q&A and FNS farmer/market signup