Schedule at a Glance
Friday October 28
- All Day
- Registration at the Mayflower Hotel
- 6pm
- Welcome Reception, The Patio, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
With special thanks to the US Department of Agriculture
Welcome Keynote given by Lloyd Day, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Services, US Department of Agriculture
Saturday October 29
- 8am – 9am
- Opening Key Note Session:
Clarence H. Carter, Deputy Administrator, Food Stamp Program, US Department of Agriculture - 9.30am – 5pm
- Market Tours:
Baltimore
Washington - 7.30pm
- Party at Eastern Market, Washington, DC ($40 per person)
Celebrate Halloween style at Eastern Market’s Gallery 5. Drinks, buffet dinner, and the “best jazz in town” by the Market 5 Jazz Band. Thanks to John Harrod and his team, and Friends of Market 5.
Sunday October 30
- 7.30am – 8.30am
- Breakfast tour of Dupont Circle Farmers Market, Washington, DC
- 9am – 10.30am
- Sessions:
- Markets 101
- Markets and Youth Programs
- Forging New Partnerships
- 11am – 12.30pm
- Sessions:
- Placemaking
- Attracting New Vendors to Diversify your Market
- Starting up a New Market
- 1pm – 1.45pm
- Brown Bag Lunch
- Topics:
- Risk Management and Liability Insurance for Farmers’ Markets
- Managers Roundtable
- The National Farmers’ Market Survey (US)
- 2pm – 3.30pm
- Sessions:
- Understanding Your Customer and Creating a Great Shopping Destination
- Measuring Economic Impact: building the case for your market
- Gentrification – Friend or Foe? Public Markets in “Shifting Sands” Communities
- 4pm – 5.30pm
- Sessions:
- Public Markets and Public Health: “Visit a market and call me in the morning!”
- 10 Top Tips to Market Your Market
- Why Markets Fail?
- 6.30pm
- 2005 Great Public Market Awards Reception at the Mayflower Hotel
Monday October 31
- 7.15am – 8.45am
- Farmers Market Coalition Policy Summit over breakfast, “From Field to Neighborhood: The Benefits of Farmers’ Markets”
- 9am – 10.30am
- Sessions:
- FMC Workshop: “Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are”
- Benefits of Connecting Microenterprise Development and Marketplaces
- Financing: Budgets, Subsidies, Grants and Loans
- 11am – 12.30pm
- Sessions:
- Special Session: Assessing and Rebuilding Markets in the Gulf
- Federal, Private and Foundation Partnerships Supporting Public Markets
- The Next Generation: Markets as Anchors for Local Food Systems
- 1pm – 1.45pm
- Brown Bag Lunch
- Topics:
- Kellogg and Ford Grant Funding – General Q&A
- How to Enroll Your Market in the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Program
- 2pm – 3pm
- Closing Plenary: “Local Public Markets – National Transformation”
Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Representative of the Third Congressional District of Oregon - 3pm
- Conference Ends