In order to address inequities and barriers in the farmers market sector, mifma intends to strengthen community between michigan farmers market managers and empower them as leaders in their…

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) provides $201,981 to the Michigan Farmers Market Association (Mifma) to strengthen community between Michigan farmers market managers and empower them as leaders to create anti-racist initiatives for their markets. The goal is to foster greater understanding with the communities they serve by dismantling systems of oppression and implementing the tenets of the Farmers Market Coalition's anti-racist toolkit. Grant funds will be used to provide stipends to market managers for participating in a cohort program and implementing anti-racist initiatives at their markets. Mifma also intends to create and publish a curriculum for the cohort program and share outcomes with its members and the broader national farmers market sector, with the overall aim of supporting meaningful community impacts and creating a replicable program model.

In order to address inequities and barriers in the farmers market sector, mifma intends to strengthen community between michigan farmers market managers and empower them as leaders in their communities to create anti-racist initiatives to improve their markets. The goal of the market manager racial equity cohort is to empower market managers to foster greater understanding with the communities they serve by dismantling systems of oppression and implementing the tenets of the farmers market coalitions anti-racist farmers market toolkit. Grant funds will be used to provide stipends to market managers for participating in the cohort and implementing an anti-racist initiative at their markets. Additionally, mifma intends to create and publish a curriculum for the cohort program and share outcomes from the project with mifma members and the broader national farmers market sector. The overall goals of this project are to support meaningful impacts in the participating market s communities and create a program model that can be replicated in other regions and other sectors of the food system.