Quick Tips

Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions

This guiding tool from the Praxis Project offers what is important to take into account in our efforts to building diverse community based coalitions. It provides background, question prompts, and…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Understanding your community and customers | Grassroots outreach | Operations and policy

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Fresh ideas for CalFresh

Fresh Ideas for CalFresh is nearly three-year project (2019-2022) documenting the experiences of over 400 food-insecure Angelenos across the county navigating public benefit programs like CalFresh. In fact, there are…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Evaluation and Reporting | SNAP, EBT, and Nutrition Incentive Programs | Sharing your results | Operations and policy

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Example

Voices of the Food Chain

Using this website, Voices of the Food Chain showcases stories and issues from the millions of food-systems workers in America. A great example of how to use digital media to…

Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Understanding your community and customers | Digital media | Operations and policy

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Farmers Markets And Whiteness

This radio show from Indiana Public Media does a fantastic job of covering several angles on the idea of farmers markets as white spaces, including the experiences of shoppers, the…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Design and location | Operations and policy

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How-to

"Beyond Traditional": Farmers Markets Incubating Social Change

This toolkit created by Allinee "shiny" Flanary is offers a central case study and numerous tools based in shiny's work in creating and managing the Come Thru Market in Portland…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Trainings and tools | Operations and policy

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Listening is First Step in Serving Native American Communities

This article from Food Bank News describes effective efforts to create farm direct food access programs to serve native communities, and offers an example of how to design community-centered programming.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Design and location | Operations and policy

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Resource List

OFMA Trainings On Anti-Racism At Farmers Markets

Although these tools and trainings are created with Oregon Farmers Markets in mind, the trainings and resources listed on this page will be useful for any farm direct organization looking…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Trainings and tools | Operations and policy

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Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics

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…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Evaluation and Reporting | Data collection and evaluation | Operations and policy | What to measure and track

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Research

Delivering More Than Food: Understanding and Operationalizing Racial Equity in Food Hubs

Racism underlies the U.S. food system. To withstand, resist, and reshape the dominant food system, communities of color have created alternative food systems rooted in self-determination, ownership, and collective power.…

Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

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Research

What do farmers bring to market?: Exploring good types, number of vendors, and founding dates by SES and race/ethnicity

While previous studies have shown that farmers markets are choosing to locate in underserved areas, little research has examined how often this is occurring and what these markets offer to…

Operations and policy | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

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