This Resource Guide from Community Action Partnership provides a long list of resources around planning, conducting, and evaluation the results from a community needs assessment. Resources are drawn from a…

FM Tracks is a novel iOS application and web-based portal to collect, manage, and evaluate information about your farmers' market. FM Tracks can be used by other direct-to-consumer markets, including CSAs…

Farmers Market Metrics (Metrics) is a complete evaluation & data communication system that empowers market operators to tell their market’s story. Streamlined metrics and data collection methods are combined with training…

This tool offers an expansive list of metrics that U.S. food system practitioners and food movement organizations can use to hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food…

Ripple Effects Mapping is an evaluation tool designed to gather qualitative information about program impacts through storytelling and visualizing relationships between outcomes and effects. It's helpful for complex projects embedded…

This full-length dowloadable book is helpful for understanding the how and why of Ripple Effects Mapping, an evaluation tool designed to gather qualitative information about a program's impacts through storytelling.…

This slide presentation offers tips and basics for running three kinds of rapid market assessments at farmers markets--customer counts, dot surveys, comments and observations from a site visit.

This resource library contains reports and resources from Grow NYC's multiple incentive programs, SNAP- based and beyond

This report from SPUR and Fair Food Network will benefit any market trying to make the case for farm direct nutrition incentives in the context of their local economy, or…

A visitor count is an essential part of collecting farmers market data. It is a piece of baseline data, meaning we use visitor counts as a way to calculate other…