Blog posts categorized with Markets

In honor of National Farmers Market Week, Executive Director Hugo Mogollon shares his reflections on the can-do attitude of the folks who make farmers markets happen.

National Farmers Market Week (NFMW) is here! Join us in this national celebration of farmers markets, taking place from Sunday, August 1st to Saturday, August 7th.

Over the past several months, we’ve built a brand new market application and evaluation system from the ground up with a goal to be more intentional in our recruitment efforts, more transparent in our evaluation process, and more equitable in our vendor selections.

This year’s virtual Future Harvest conference, “Crisis & Resilience: Building a New Food Future,” looked much different than the usual in-person gathering, but was as compelling and powerful as ever as participants discussed the challenges they’ve faced over the past year and the future they envision for our local food economy.

Be a Winter Warrior this season! Shop at our winter farmers markets and earn great prizes.

For farmers markets across the country, the 2020 market season has been one of endless changes, challenges, and uncertainty. FRESHFARM has been committed to operating markets safely throughout the pandemic and has worked tirelessly over the past six months to keep markets open. Despite the drastic changes we have had to make this season, the farmers markets continue to provide a sense of normalcy and even joy for shoppers across the region.

Members of the FRESHFARM team attended the annual Future Harvest CASA Conference to learn how our community can help direct our food system to a more sustainable future.