Partners

Supporters

The Farmers Market Coalition is presently supported by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, works in cooperative partnership with the Wallace Center at Winrock International, and is grateful to the Ford Foundation, which provided essential start-up funding during the formation of FMC in 2006.

FMC is also supported, and greatly strengthened, by its member markets and organizations. Embedded in our belief in farmers markets is the recognition that no single organization has the final word on what’s best for markets. Our membership in the National Farmers Market Consortium allows us to work alongside many forward-thinking national agencies and organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing farmers markets.

Allies

National Association of Farmers’ Markets Nutrition Programs
(www.nafmnp.org)

has long fought to improve and expand the effectiveness of farmers markets as vehicles for improving senior and child nutrition.

The Project for Public Spaces
(www.pps.org)

has tirelessly worked to improve farmers markets’ abilities to better animate public spaces.

National Association of Produce Market Managers
(www.napmm.org)

has anchored many public and terminal markets under threat from urban developers for more than 60 years.

Only at Farmers Markets
(www.onlyatfarmersmarkets.com)

is dedicated to using innovate strategies to rally consumer support of farmers markets.

State farmers market associations

have quietly built the capacity of individual markets, and more are formed each year. We salute and support these and other efforts and organizations whose work touches farmers markets.

We join hands with them. We also ask them, others, and you to join hands with us as partners. We need your help disseminating new information and communicating your experiences — whether you are farmer, health professional, parent looking for fresh food and health places for your family, or citizen seeking safe public spaces in an otherwise dangerously private world.

You, too, can become involved. Visit the Join Us page of this website and become a member today. If you can pledge financial support, we would be most grateful. Ours is a small organization and we pledge to spend your contributions wisely.