A5005336715- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
To provide farmers market leaders and researchers with new insights about attendees, given shifting consumer preferences demographics, we conducted a nearly nationally representative survey in the United States. Among 5,141 respondents, 38.51% reported attending markets infrequently (i.e., five or fewer times per year), 41.78% more regularity six greater year). In combination, this equated to 80.30% of entire sample having at least some experience once year more). Of note, were defined as...
First paragraph: The value proposition of farmers markets has been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. festival-like features put on hold, in-person social interactions reduced, physical flow walk-up changed. Just as previous crises[1] called upon to shift their operations serve community, 2020 story highlights how once again, these low-capacity/high-functioning entities have forced reinvent themselves. This time, alternative models involving online pre-orders, drive-thru, and curbside product...
The need for an updated framework all types of farmers markets and the varied levels capacity to share impacts their work led development Farmers Market Metrics (Metrics) program at Coalition (FMC), a nonprofit working strengthen across country. This essay provides timeline steps partnerships that creation this program, including exploration existing data collection systems suitable grassroots markets, observations from engaged in evaluation, feedback by pilot users system, best practices...
The need for an updated framework all types of farmers markets and the varied levels capacity to share impacts their work led development Farmers Market Metrics (Metrics) program at Coalition (FMC), a nonprofit working strengthen across country. This essay provides timeline steps partnerships that creation this program, including exploration existing data collection systems suitable grassroots markets, observations from engaged in evaluation, feedback by pilot users system, best practices...