Press & Publications

Press

Cash or Credit? Choice brings in more market 'lettuce', April 23rd, 2018
American Agriculturist 
 
Harvesting Farmers, January 29th, 2018
The New Yorker 
 
 
 
Greenmarket Turns 40, August 19th, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
The Margins, October 28th, 2015
 
NY1, August 24th, 2015
 
 
 
 
Market Place, September 19th, 2014
 
Next City, June 16, 2014
 
Seedstock, September 30, 2013
 
Slate, April 26, 2013
 
WNYC, August 23, 2013
 

Publications

Modernizing Your Sales with Mobile Point of Sale Systems
Funding provided by New York Farm Viability Institute

The First Years: Twelve Stories on Starting Out 
Funding provided by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Enterprise Budgets: Planning for Success
Funding provided by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Webinar Modernizing Your Farm Sales: The Power of Point of Sale (POS) hosted by the Farmers Market Federation of NY

Recording of Understanding Customer Behavior at Farmers Markets Workshop at the Young Farmers Conference 2016

Understanding Customer Behavior at Farmers Markets - Strategies for Increasing Sales and Customer Satisfaction
Funding provided by New York Farm Viability Institute

Whole Farm Planning Course Visual Toolkit 
Funding provided by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Marketing Enhancements for Greenmarket Farmers
Funding provided by New York Farm Viability Institute

Farmers on the Edge: An Assessment of Greenmarket Farmers' Needs, and the Growing Challeneges of Keeping Their Farms Viables
Co-published with the Open Space Institute with Funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

 

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