Many of you have asked, “What can I do to support the market?”
You can help by making a donation today. Our donors, ‘Friends of the Market’ grow our mission to inspire a healthier community through partnerships, educational programming, and support for organic farmers and local food producers.
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Your support enables us to:
- Ensure the viability of a thriving, supportive marketplace for more than 115 small local farms and businesses who employ over 625 individuals and depend on us as their primary storefront.
- Support the economic development of small local farms and food makers by providing vendors with guidance on marketing, regulations and operations.
- Provide consumers with a direct connection to the source of their food, educates and empowers them to support a local, sustainable and resilient food economy.
- Fund and support Next Stage Grants for deer fences to protect hard-earned harvests, irrigation systems for leased farmland, and projects that increase efficiencies, enabling farms to scale-up.
- Ensure access to healthy, sustainably-produced local food through our Market Bucks program, which stretches the buying power of shoppers using EBT cards by matching purchases 3:1 up to $10 at the market.
- Provide 60 families in Cedar Riverside with free, weekly CSA through our food donation program Greens for Good.
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By joining the Friends of the Market at any level, you become part of a circle of supporters that receive exclusive communications designed for folks who are devoted fans and passionate about making a difference in the local food community.
Your donation to Friends of the Market is tax-deductible.
Thank you again for all of the ways you are committed to supporting a thriving local food community. It’s truly a team effort, and everything you do – from shopping at the market, getting to know your local farmer and food maker, making a donation, to simply spreading the word about why you support local food with a friend – has a reverberating impact.
