Farmers Market Evaluation

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Guide/Toolkit

Evaluating Outcomes of Community Food Actions: A Guide

This guide is about equipping people with practical tools and resources to evaluate just what kind of difference their Community Food Action is making. This is a how-to guide about…
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Article (peer reviewed)

Collaborative, Participatory,and Empowerment Evaluation: Building a StrongConceptual Foundation for Stakeholder Involvement Approaches to Evaluation(A Response to Cousins,Whitmore, and Shulha, 2013)

This article responds to criticisms of stakeholder-led evaluation methods by sharing a conceptual framework to empower stakeholders for meaningful evaluation practices.
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How-To

Counting Visitors at Markets

This short essay from the Farmers Market Coalition lays out why and how to perform shopper counts at your farmers market as part of a Rapid Market Assessment. Includes descriptions…
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Blog

Counting Farmers Market Visitors and Customers in 2022

Blog post revisiting visitor count tools and methodologies with consideration for the 4Ms (mission, management, messaging, and measurement)
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Article (peer reviewed)

Designing an effective, scalable data collection tool to measure farmers market impacts

Provides a timeline of the steps and partnerships that led to the creation of the Farmers Market Metrics program, including the exploration of existing data collection systems suitable for grassroots…
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