The CT FMA is dedicated to supporting and strengthening farmers’ markets across the state through four key program areas. Together, these efforts seek to empower farmers’ markets to thrive and better serve their communities.

Collaboration, knowledge sharing and gathering:

• Bring together key stakeholders from farmers’ markets around the state to share their knowledge, ask questions, discuss pain points and foster collaboration.

• Gather folks both in person as well as through digital forums.

Resource creation and dissemination:

• Regularly solicit feedback from members to understand their key questions and problem areas.

• Create high quality educational resources based on the topic areas of greatest interest to members.

• This could include: hosting webinars, bringing in subject matter experts to share their knowledge, writing informative articles, creating full training toolkits, repurposing or sharing existing resources, etc.

• These will be disseminated to members via email newsletters, during gatherings (digital and in person), and in the future, provided through an online resources database.

Data Collection:

• Become a centralized source for collecting data about farmers’ markets so we can measure progress over time as well as use data to advocate for the markets.