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Farmers Markets and Local Food Marketing
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FMPP: Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2006
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- South Carolina: $20,264 to Clemson University of Clemson, S.C., to attract more customers and vendors to a historic county farmers market in order to improve farm-based income and to improve consumer access to fresh fruits and vegetables in a very rural, racially diverse community where a sizable segment of households (21 percent) live below the poverty line.
- Texas: $67,950 to the Sunset Valley Farmers Market of Sunset Valley, Texas, to design a permanent farmers market facility for the community that incorporates conservation and environmentally sustainable principles in its architectural and design elements, in order to enhance the efficiency, utility, and visual appeal of the farmers market structure.
- Vermont: $62,538 to the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont of Richmond, Vt., to improve the profitability of direct-to-consumer farm marketing activities in Vermont by conducting an assessment of existing direct marketing channels for farm products; to provide technical training to local producers on value-added product development, merchandise displays, and market development for fall/winter crops; and to developing the technical capacity of Vermont farmers markets to accept food stamps.
- Wisconsin: $54,732 to the Dunn County Economic Development Corporation of Menomonie, Wisc., to significantly increase the income of small-scale goat producers in Wisconsin by providing them with the opportunity to direct-market locally raised and processed fresh Halal-slaughtered goat meat to the members of a growing Somali immigrant community in Northwestern Wisconsin and possibly to larger numbers of Somali immigrants living in the Minneapolis, Minn., region.
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