Agenda

Dec 31, 2008
Dec 14, 2017

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

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