The Conference Committee has an exciting slate of sessions set for VAFMA’s Virginia Farmers Market Conference in Staunton, Nov 13-15, 2019. Register before August 31st for early bird pricing.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Farmers Market Management

• Successful and Sustainable Market Management
• Taking Care of Yo’Self & Others
• Leadership: The Art of Cultivating a Community
• Market Mayhem: CRAZE: Citizen Response to Active Shooters
• Taking it to the Streets: More about Mobile Markets
• Functional Market Layout and Presentation
• Farmers Market Marketing
• How to Secure Sponsorship
• Defending Your Market
• Using Metrics – Next Steps
• Food Safety for Market Managers
• Getting to Greener: How Farmers Markets Can Get to #PlasticFree
• A Play, “I love local”

Food Access

• FreshLink Ambassador Model: Lessons learned during program implementation
• Nourish Your Neighbors: Getting Started with SNAP and Food Access
• Virginia Fresh Match: Proven Approaches for SNAP Success

Farmers Market Vendors

• Business Essentials: Strengthening Your Farmers Market Enterprise
• Marketing Essentials for Farmers Markets
• Introduction to Value-Added Foods
• Virginia’s Industrial Hemp Law: Challenges and Opportunities, and other legislation impacting farmers and agribusiness
• Food Safety for Vendors

Agritourism

• Virginia is for Farmers Market Lovers
• Agriculture and Agritourism Funders Panel
• Agritourism: Increasing Excitement in Rural Virginia
• Leaving Your Mark on the Trail – Using Fields of Gold as a Blueprint for Regional Market Trails
• Making You, Your Land and Livestock’s History Part of Agritourism
• Thinking Outside the Farm: Bringing Customers to Your Home Base
• Organic Farming, Agritourism, Licensing and Permitting
• Agritourism Marketing