August 2025 Update: The information below is accurate for most years, but this year we are now facing a $400,000+ funding loss, due to a federal Nutrition Incentive grant being closed. This represents about half of what we need to fully fund Maine Harvest Bucks. As a result we have had to reduce our matching […]
Senior FarmShare Partnership Expansion and what it means for you!
March 22, 2024 CategoriesA core component of MFFM’s mission is to make healthy, local food accessible to more people. In 2023, we introduced a new pilot program through partnership with the Maine Senior FarmShare Program that expanded food access options for older adults at the Bar Harbor, Kennebunk, and Sanford Farmers’ Markets. Eligible older adults who shopped at […]
Marrying CSA to farmers’ market
June 22, 2015 CategoriesA debit-type CSA works well at farmers’ market I have attended farmers’ markets since 1983, yet the whole idea of a CSA has always fascinated me as a practical method to market my farm’s produce. Having customers get a box of food each week that they paid for at the beginning of the season seemed […]
Why do we use computer scales?
June 22, 2015 Categoriesby Bob Bowen When we started in the farmers market, we sold chickens and meat with a small (and CHEAP!) set of table scales. They weren’t sealed for retail sales but no one caught us. And we kept checking them to assure us that we were being fair. And we tended to charge to the […]
Creating customer bonds with presence, abundance, and generosity
June 22, 2015 CategoriesTraditional retailing wisdom says it is of the utmost importance to give customers exactly what they pay for. Any less, and you are cheating the customer; any more and you are cheating yourself. Being rather non-traditionalist myself, allow me to offer an amended view. Many markets and farmers have a budget for what they refer […]