February 2020
Agenda
Introductions - Break Out Rooms
Updates from Local Markets
Updates from Local Farmers
Continuing work on the Brochure - continue to send over market dates
Farmers Market Promotion Program Grant Progress Update Presentation
Farmers Market Network Year 1 Evaluation Survey
Farmers Market Commercial Committee
Call-In Information
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Farmers Market Promotion Program Project Updates
Objectives
Indicators
Current Community Partners and Network Members (please shoot me a message in the chat to be formally added to this list if you are not currently and would like to be)
Lake to River Food Cooperative
Commonwealth Kitchen Incubator
ACTION
GROW Flying High Urban Farm
Healthy Communities Partnership
Austintown Farmers Market
Niles Farmers Market *New Partner
Howland Farmers Market
Hubbard Farmers Market *New Partner
Canfield Farmers Market *New Startup Market, New Partner
Northside Farmers Market
Warren Farmers Market
ProducePerks Midwest *New Partner
The Ohio State University Extension Trumbull and Mahoning County
Northeast Counties Ohio Farm Bureau *New Partner
Trumbull County WIC Program *New Partner
Trumbull Soil and Water Conservation District *New Partner
Lengel Brothers Farm
Sleepy Hollow Farm
Announcements
OSU Extension Trumbull County to host Growing Practices for Small Scale Fruit and Vegetable Farms
Local Food Marketing Practices Survey
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Data Collection, Promotion, Customer Retention, and Recruiting
Creating Inclusive Markets
Asset Mapping to Build Community Partnerships
Conflict Resolution
SNAP: Best Practices and Latest Updates
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Mahoning County Buy Farm Fresh Hub
https://mahoning.osu.edu/program-areas/agriculture-and-natural-resources/buy-farm-fresh
The Buy Farm Fresh Hub is brought to by the Mahoning County Commissioners CARES Act Funding, OSU Extension Mahoning County, and the Mahoning County Farm Bureau. For questions or concerns, please contact Mahoning County OSU Extension at 330-533-5538.
New Legal Resource on Free Speech at Markets from the National Farmers Market Coalition
The team at Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS), in partnership with FMC and NOFA-Vermont, is pleased to share a new legal resource for farmers market operators.
Many farmers markets face questions about free speech—in particular, what types of restrictions markets can place on activities like leafleting, political campaigning, and protesting. Are farmers markets obligated to allow these types of activities as exercises of free speech under the First Amendment?
The new factsheet to begin to answer these complicated questions is available on the Farmers Market Legal Toolkit website, along with other open-access legal resources to help markets stay accessible and resilient.