Market Operations
This tool is used to measure the weight of fruits and vegetables.
What is a scale?
This is a federally funded food assistance program that helps people buy food using an EBT (eletronic benefits transfer) card.
What is SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)?
This printed material is used to advertise market locations, hours, and special events.
What is a flyer?
A tool some farmers use to kill or deter pests. This practice is mostly used in conventional agriculture.
What is pesticide?
What we call food that is grown within a 25-mile radius of where it is sold.
What is local?
This is what we call the process of weighing items so they can be sold in specific amounts.
What is portioning?
This is a coupon or certificate that can be exchanged for goods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, instead of using cash.
What is a voucher?
This is a regular email sent to subscribers with market news, schedules, and updates.
MAP Mobile Market sends one every week with a produce list, market highlights, recipes, and upcoming events and opportunities.
What is a newsletter?
When conventional, it may be made out of synthetic chemicals.
What is fertilizer?
A method of recycling food scraps that re-introduces nutrients to soil.
Farmer Pirates is a local organization that helps make this valuable organic resource!
What is compost?
This is the process of refilling a market display when produce is running low.
What is restocking?
This is the process of keeping track of a business’s financial transactions, including money earned from sales, discounts, vouchers, and money spent on expenses.
What is bookkeeping?
This term describes the ability of people to obtain affordable, nutritious food.
What is food access?
A natural farming technique that plants that help each other together. One plant might offer the other benefits like deterring pests, supporting growth, or providing nutrients.
Tomatoes and basil are a key example of this.
What is companion planting?
This type of agriculture focuses on producing food while protecting natural resources like soil and water so that farms can remain productive for future generations.
What is sustainable agriculture?
This term refers to all the products a market has available to sell.
What is inventory?
This system records customer purchases and processes payments. Square is an example of one of these.
What is a point-of-sale system?
This 3 word phrase describes how some people might find out about the market by talking to friends, family, and neighbors.
What is word-of-mouth?
A natural planting technique introduced by Native Americans using beans, squash, and corn.
Corn provides structure for the beans and helps them reach more sunlight. Beans fertilize the corn and squash by adding nitrogen to the soil. Squash protect corn and beans from predators while shading the soil and retaining moisture.
What is the three sisters method?
A great way to support your local farmer by buying produce directly from them in the form of a share. It's like a local produce subscription.
What is Community-Supported Agriculture or CSA?
This term describes planning and coordinating how products, people, and supplies get where they need to go.
What is logistics?
A federal and state funded program that makes it easier for customers using SNAP to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.
Customers can get twice the produce for half the cost using this program. Farmers and markets can expand their customer base, sell more fruits and veggies, and better support food access in their communities.
What is Double Up Food Bucks NY?
Unlike feedback, which provides opinions to help improve a service, these are personal statements from customers sharing their experiences, often used to demonstrate its impact.
What are testimonials?
This three word phrase (or three letter acronym) describes the introduction of other animals/ insects to control pests on a farm.
For example, introducing lady bugs to an aphid infestation or cats for a rat infestation.
What is integrated-pest management (IPM)?
This is the name of the system that describes the entire process of a product, from the raw materials used to grow or create it to its distribution and sale.
For example: Farm --> Transportation --> Storage --> Distribution --> Retail --> Customer
What is a supply chain?