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Market Wagon is a US-based online ordering and delivery service for ordering produce, meat, dairy, and prepared foods from local farmers and artisan food producers. It was founded in Indianapolis in 2016 and as of 2023 had 25 delivery hubs throughout the midwest and Tennessee.
National Farmers Market Association. The National Farmers Market Association (NFMA) is a nationwide, nonprofit organization created to promote access to fresh food [1] for people across all economic and social barriers, and to educate individuals, communities, food producers, and creative artisans about the impact that available and affordable fresh food can have on health and quality of life.
National Farmers Market Week, which runs through August 10, is an ideal time to celebrate the impact that farmers markets can make on the community. Please visit the Forsyth Farmers’ Market on ...
Aug. 15—Cherokee County is home to a bounty of local farmers who, along with the fresh produce they peddle en plein air, are celebrated annually during National Farmers' Market week.
An autumn farmers' market in Farmington, Michigan A farmers' market at twilight in Layyah, Pakistan Blueberries in late July 2023 at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal. A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [1] [2] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [3] [4]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.
A study of Iowa's farmers' markets showed that 140 jobs were created in a single year that could be attributed to farmers' market activity. [14] Other studies also found that farmers' market activity directly and indirectly supports the growth of local jobs. [15] One study showed that 5.4 jobs were created per farmers' market.
In the 1970s, the National Farmers Organization started working with processors and the food and feed industry to secure supply contracts in all the commodities they represented. The strategy was to sell into rising markets and influence the market positively, rather than feed, and encourage, a continued market downtrend.
A farmers market in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. In 2018, The Food Trust, a nonprofit organization based in Pennsylvania, had 22 farmers' markets in operation throughout Philadelphia. To increase accessibility for healthier food and fresh produce, Food Trust farmers' markets accept SNAP benefits. [43]