How Can FMC Help Markets Analyze This Year?

Farmers Market Coalition

For our Summer 2020 COVID Impact survey, the FMC team set a goal of 300 responses across all states, a goal which was met and then exceeded with a final count of 461 market organizations reporting in 50 states. The goal of 300 responses was made based on estimating the number of market organizations operating in the US as 3,000-4,000, estimating because the number of actual organizations is unknown. We focused our surveys on…

Drive-Thru Markets: Innovation to Keep Communities Safe

Farmers Market Coalition

Market leaders are familiar with daily crisis control, but when the crisis is a global pandemic, the resilience and innovation of farmers market operators is vital. One way markets have adapted to COVID-19 has been by implementing drive-thru and curbside delivery and online purchasing methods….

What to Do When Market Fluctuations Affect Prices

NGA Foundation

Article describing pricing challenges that have impacted retailers due to COVID-19 and providing recommendations for how to handle such a situation….

The Coronavirus Impact on Restaurants

James Beard Foundation

In light of the urgent and dire financial situation facing restaurants due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, this past week the James Beard Foundation conducted a survey to provide an immediate snapshot of the industry’s needs….

Resources and Guidance for Re-Opening

James Beard Foundation

Tips and tools from federal, private, and international sources…

Restaurants Must Have More Information to Re-Open

James Beard Foundation

Around the country, governors and public officials are issuing health and safety guidelines to prod local businesses to open back up….

A Case for a “New Normal” in the Wake of Two Pandemics

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

This article takes a look at the lessons learned from international movements for food sovereignty and how those lessons may be applied locally, during and after the COVID crisis. “In order to sustain the lessons learned during times of crisis, we must go beyond a resilient food system to create a sovereign one.”…

Preschool’s Farm & Food Partnerships Keep Kids Eating Local

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

NC Farm to Early Care and Education, a Center for Environmental Farming Systems initiative, works with Sonflower Seeds Christian Preschool and Learning Center LLC and other early childhood facilities to purchase local food and provide children with experiential learning around local food. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonflower Seeds, in Silk Hope, North Carolina, continued caring for children of paramedics, police and other essential workers. Thanks to years of partnership building with local farmers, the…

Open For Good

James Beard Foundation

Open for Good is the James Beard Foundation’s campaign to help independent restaurants survive this crisis, rebuild better, and thrive for the long term. Open for Good programs provide critical resources to help independent restaurants build the capacity to come back stronger, more equitable, more sustainable, and more resilient….

Feeding Incarcerated People in a Pandemic: How One Maine Prison Is Adapting

Farm to Institution New England

As part of FINE's work on how COVID-19 is impacting institutional food systems, this blog highlights how the COVID-19 virus has profoundly disrupted food operations in prisons and jails. Mark McBrine, Food Service Manager at the Mountain View Correctional Facility, shares how the Maine Department of Corrections has adapted their protocols to protect against the virus while demonstrating the benefits of sourcing local quality food….

Colleges Adapt During a Pandemic: New Ways COVID Will Change Campus Dining

Farm to Institution New England

The dining landscape changed dramatically due to COVID-19. To-go containers, plexiglass, and safe distancing signs have replaced the once familiar scene of hot trays, buffet bars, and students in close comradery. And now, as colleges further revise plans to reopen, dining operations continue to adapt. In FINE's most recent blog, we discuss the changes in campus dining and what lays ahead as colleges continue to grapple with the coronavirus….

Seen but not heard: Farmers markets on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis

Farmers Market Coalition

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how quickly our food supply chain can be interrupted. While farmers markets are often viewed as a privilege for the well-off, this pandemic has cemented markets as essential businesses that have an important role to play in increasing access to local, healthy food for everyone. Yet, not enough support, funding, and resources are currently directed to organizations and individuals that run markets….

Farmers Markets Are Essential—And So Are the Policy Relationships They Hold

Farmers Market Coalition

No matter how you look at it, 2020 has been a challenging and uncertain year to be in the farmers market business. The impacts of COVID-19 were felt hard and fast by farmers markets in the initial phase of the response to the virus. Farmers market operators, State Associations, and the Farmers Market Coalition (FMC) threw themselves into the fight to keep farmers markets open as we all struggled to keep up with changing…

FMC Helps Farmers Markets Mitigate the Impacts of COVID-19

Farmers Market Coalition

As farmers markets serve an essential role in local and community-based food systems, the Farmers Market Coalition acted quickly in the early stages of the pandemic to begin collecting and providing market leaders with the tools and resources they would need to operate safely and efficiently during this crisis….

Don’t fear eating your fruits and veggies as virus concerns grip nation

NGA Foundation

This article answers questions regarding the safety of fruits and vegetables during COVID-19. The authors explain why fruits and vegetables are still safe to eat while providing suggestions such as pre-packaged items for those who are immunocompromised….

Format: Blog Articles

How Can FMC Help Markets Analyze This Year?

Farmers Market Coalition

Drive-Thru Markets: Innovation to Keep Communities Safe

Farmers Market Coalition

What to Do When Market Fluctuations Affect Prices

NGA Foundation

The Coronavirus Impact on Restaurants

James Beard Foundation

Resources and Guidance for Re-Opening

James Beard Foundation

Restaurants Must Have More Information to Re-Open

James Beard Foundation

A Case for a “New Normal” in the Wake of Two Pandemics

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

Preschool’s Farm & Food Partnerships Keep Kids Eating Local

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

Open For Good

James Beard Foundation

Feeding Incarcerated People in a Pandemic: How One Maine Prison Is Adapting

Farm to Institution New England

Colleges Adapt During a Pandemic: New Ways COVID Will Change Campus Dining

Farm to Institution New England

Seen but not heard: Farmers markets on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis

Farmers Market Coalition

Farmers Markets Are Essential—And So Are the Policy Relationships They Hold

Farmers Market Coalition

FMC Helps Farmers Markets Mitigate the Impacts of COVID-19

Farmers Market Coalition

Don’t fear eating your fruits and veggies as virus concerns grip nation

NGA Foundation

Partner Networks: