Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.  Your information will help improve the Farmers’ Market Aggregation Project, helps us measure the impact on local foods purchased and sold, on the future of this project and helps us better serve buyers and producers in your community. To refresh your memory on specialty crops ("fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture"), please visit this page. Your answers will be confidential.

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* 1. Contact Information
Your answers are confidential. 

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* 2. Which Farmers Market are you associated with?

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* 3. What is your current number of wholesale buyer relationships that made purchases in 2018?

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* 4. How many farmers sold via the aggregation project in 2018?

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* 5. Did any new farmers/vendors sell product through this program that were not members of your market?

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* 6. Did you use the Local Orbit sales platform?

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* 7. If you used the Local Orbit sales platform, please respond to the questions below. If you did not, please move to the next question.

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* 8. Why didn't you use Local Orbit?
If you did, please skip this question.

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* 9. Have you attended any of the following trainings?

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a GAPs (Good Agricultural Practices) training?
a FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) training?
Did you attend one because of this project?
Did you find the training helpful in learning about food safety and how to reduce food safety risks?
Would you be interested in attending more trainings?
Do you still need to attend one?

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* 10. How do you plan to increase or improve your outreach for this program in 2019?

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* 11. What were your main challenges when conducting the farmers’ market aggregation project at your market?

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* 12. What benefits did this project bring to your market?

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* 13. What benefits did this project bring to your community?

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* 14. What did you like most about the farmers’ market aggregation project?

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* 15. What support, resources, training or other tools do you think would help your community expand purchasing of local food to institutions, retailers or dining establishments?

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* 16. Right now, what prevents you from recruiting more vendors and/or buyers to this project?

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* 17. What local organizations or individuals were your best partners in expanding markets for local farmers and purchasing more local foods?

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* 18. Tell us a story about your participation in the project this year. What experience sticks in your mind or was particularly compelling?

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* 19. Do you have any comments, suggestions, questions or feedback?

Thank you for you for participating this year, and for your time answering these questions!
Check out our project website at https://farmersmarketaggregation.wordpress.com.

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