I have a lot to tell you about my trip to Denver for the Slow Food Nations event, and to share ideas and research about vendor development at markets, and talk about the upcomingDirect Marketing Ag Summitin mid September, but instead of that, this post will focus on the immediate crisis ...
I’d also like to raise the theory that the food hub movement was begun with such gusto because farmers markets have taken a long time to “professionalize” (don’t be defensive as I don’t mean markets are unprofessional, just that market organizations have not been able to attract long-...
there's two ways farmers are being impacted: one is that, because of the air quality the farmers markets have closed, so they've lost that retail outlet," Hutchason says "The second way they're being affected is the smoke is so bad that they can't go out and harvest. So e...
If you thought that just because the temperatures will start dropping soon that the Farmers' Markets in town were done and over with, well think again.
especially at the merchant level. This is also true of new app-based systems (also called “contactless systems”) like Apple Pay which allow a user to upload credit cards to their iPhone 6 and use encrypted “near-field technology” to just tap or wave the smart phone at the merchant pa...
They continue to worry there is no end in sight with China, and questions remain about how welcome markets in Canada and Mexico will be. What was a profitable business for us is now not profitable, maybe break even at best, and it is a matter of how long can you go on doing that....
sustainability Review Leverage Points for Governing Agricultural Soils: A Review of Empirical Studies of European Farmers' Decision-Making Bartosz Bartkowski * ID and Stephan Bartke ID Department of Economics, UFZ—Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; stephan.bartke@ufz.de...