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Farmer Survey - Fresno Food Hub Assessment

As part of the Fresno DRIVE initiative and Fresno Future of Food Innovation effort housed at the Central Valley Community Foundation, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) and our partners are currently evaluating opportunities to aggregate local produce from farmers in the Fresno Region and create new sales channels to sell produce both inside and outside the region. A food hub or aggregation site can serve lots of different functions so we need to hear from you to make sure it reflects farmer needs. 

The first 50 respondents to our farmer and buyer surveys will receive $20 Visa gift cards and all respondents will be entered into a raffle to receive a $100 cash gift card and a piece of Patagonia gear. Please complete by February 28th to qualify. 

This survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete.
1.Where is your farm located? (Required.)
2.What is the size of your farm/ranch?
3.What do you produce? (check all that apply)
4.Do you consider yourself a family farm? We define a family farm as a farm in which the owner(s) are actively involved in the day to day management of the farm and depend on it for their income.
5.What seasons or months do you grow?
6.What markets do you currently sell through?
7.Are you interested in selling into a new food hub in Fresno? Assume pricing would be lower than direct to consumer/retail but higher than large-scale wholesale.
8.Which of the following training and support opportunities would help you sell to a food hub?
9.Would selling into a Fresno food hub allow you to increase your overall production?
10.Would selling into a Fresno food hub potentially increase your profitability? 
11.What types of services and operations would you like the Food Hub to provide for your business?
12.If you had the opportunity to invest your time and/or money in the food hub in order to be a part owner along with other farmers, would you be interested in participating in this way?
13.Do you farm using sustainable farming practices?
14.Do you carry any certifications (i.e. food safety, Organic)? Please list.
15.Are there customers that you’d be able to sell to if your product was lightly processed? (i.e. cleaned & chopped?)
16.What is your ability to deliver to 801 H St. in Fresno? This is the current food hub site location. (select all that apply)
17.Are you currently making value-added products that you’d be interested in selling through a food hub?
18.Would you utilize a community kitchen, attached to a Fresno Food Hub, to make value added products?
19.If you answered yes to questions 15 or 16, what value-added products are you making and/or are actively consider making?
20.Right now, the site is being planned for 801 H St. next to Chuckchansi Park (Grizzly baseball stadium). Is this location accessible to your farm? (select one)
21.Are there any other ways that a Fresno Food Hub could connect with and support your farm?
22.What effect on jobs do you think that participating in the food hub would have for your farm? (select one)
23.Do you identify as (check all that apply):
24.Are you willing to share your contact information? We will need your contact information to enter you into the raffle for $100 and Patagonia gear.
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