Sustainability and locally sourced goods are pressing issues in today’s society for many environmental, economic, and cultural reasons. Farmers markets are becoming a highly popular method of implementing these ideas.…

Shares a ies of research and evaluation questions that need answers in order for the field of research into the health and economic impacts of healthy corner store interventions to…

A research paper sharing a model for the Cook-Ed program, for planning and evaluating cooking education programs focused on diet and health

In 2017, nearly 140 SNAP-Ed implementing agencies (SIAs) and hundreds of contractors delivered nutrition education to almost 5 million people in nearly 60,000 low-resource sites. Millions more were impacted with…

Farmers’ markets are community health promotion interventions that increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables. As farmers’ markets continue to develop, it is important to strategically locate them in settings…

Issue dedicated to acheiving healthy and sustainable food environments, includes an article by Ben Feldman and Darlene Wolnik about Farmers Markets as a Strategy for Improving Food Environments. Pg. 54-60

In this study, three farmers’ markets were chosen, along with three paired supermarkets. Six produce items were selected and prices were collected at each outlet every other week, during a…

This article presents a methodological approach to studying and evaluating increasingly complex regional food systems. Social network analysis has been used to measure collaborations in health and education and is…

This research and extension effort has three objectives: * Provide markets with the essential information they need to improve their operations. * Develop research methods for conducting quantitative and qualitative…

Report detailing research done in Spring 2005 and Fall 2009 to explore differences based on psychographic and behavioral characteristics of farmers’ market consumers. Data analysis showed that four clusters were…