What's New Here?
A listing of what's recently been added to this website.

1-Feb-2012

• Added links to two great recipe websites to the Recipes page. These were recommmended at the Farmers' Market Convention last weekend.
• Added a link to the MFFM Facebook page. Thanks go to Anne Segasse for creating this for us!

23-Jan-2012

• Added a section to the Permits page that says:
  Wreathes and Christmas trees - It is not necessary to obtain a Maine nursery stock license to sell cut christmas trees and wreaths. Shipping such items out of state, however, is more complicated. See http://www.maine.gov/agriculture/pi/horticulture/wreaths.htm.
  
  Thanks to Clayton Carter for suggesting this link.

3-Dec-2011

• Added a page about a job opening at MFFM.
• Updated the page describing the End-of-Market Gleaning Program after its first year of operation, and added a downloadable End-of-Market Gleaning brochure in pdf format.

23-Nov-2011

• Added a page about The Spectrum from Peddler's Market to Producers' Market describing the gradation form a Peddler's Market to a Producer's Market.

26-Apr-2011

• Added a page listing the Permits Required for selling products at a farmers' market. Thanks to Judy Blaisdell of the ME Dept. of Ag for assembling this information.
• Added a link to inspected slaughterhouses in Maine to the above page.

28-Mar-2011

• Added an Insurance Comparison page comparing costs and coverages for farmers' market insurance policies. A work in progress.
• In the Feeding the Hungry section, added a Teach People How To Garden page, a Surplus Pick Up At End Of Market page and a page on Gleaning.
• Added a Good Market Practices page.
• Added a Triple Bottm Line page linked to from the Best Marketing Practices page.

13-Mar-2011

• Added a link to a crafting website article that talks about artisans at farmers' markets in Connecticut and western Mass.
• Added a link to the farmers' market page at the Maine State Grange website.

27-Feb-2011

• Added a the 2011 Rules and Application for the Scarborough Farmers' and Artisans' Market under the Farmers' Markets menu.

18-Feb-2011

• Added a Site Map under the "Home" menu.
• Added the beginnings of a suite of pages about Feeding the Hungry, describing many ways in which farmers' markets and market members can provide food to the less fortunate. Over the coming weeks more pages will be added in this area.

12-Feb-2011

• Created and added a Google search engine button that will search this website.
• Added a link to the TEDxDirigo.com website where you can find videos about buying local Maine products and preserving Maine farmland.

7-Feb-2011

• Created and added an EBT/SNAP page with information on accepting EBT cards at farmers' markets.
• Created and added The Best of Selling Outdoors 1991-1997 [pdf 1.7Mb] to the Publications Page.
• Added a menu link to the New England Farmers' Market Exchange [NEFME] list-serv hosted by the Cooperative Development Institute. Subscribe to ask questions and get email responses from markets all over New England.

25-Jan-2011

• Added a pulldown menu organized to easily access to all the information at the website.
• Added a link to the Downeast Business Alliance .
• Added a link in the menus to the Maine Farmers' Market Convention .
• Created a separate page for each of the catagories on the “Compleat List of Farmers' Market Resources” and added them to the pull-down menu.
• Added a Farm Promotion page for market members.
• Created a Google calendar and added it to the website's Calendar Page.
• Added a Bags, Boxes, etc. Page under the “Market Members” menu, listing sources for packaging supplies.

14-Jan-2011

• Added information about the new MFFM to the home page, including a list of the Core Group.

14-Jan-2011

• Added information about the new MFFM to the home page, including a list of the Core Group.

12-Jan-2011

• Added a new page with vidoes about farmers' markets, small scale food production, and the new thinking of which they are a part, and linked to it from the Resources page. Videos page.

3-Apr-2010

• Added a link to the New Gloucester Community Market on the Websites page.

22-Feb-2010

• On the Resources Page, added links to facebook pages for the Rockland, Bath, Skowhegan and Damariscotta farmers' markets.
• On the Websites Page, added a link to the Rockland Farmers' Market. Also added a link at the top to the list of farmers' market Facebook pages.

20-Feb-2010

• On the Resources Page, added links to Robert's Rules of Order and a page on meetings.

10-Feb-2010

• On the Resources Page, added an Email Newsletters page describing how your market can begin sending out email newsletters to your customers, including links to Email Service Providers and market website with email signup links.

• On the Resources Page, added a Promotional Logos page with dozens of farmers' market logos from across the nation and the world, including links to those markets.

• On the Resources Page, added a link to the Food Routes website.

• On the Websites Page, checked all the links and removed two dead links (Portland Public Market, and Gorham Farmers' Market) and fixed another (Gateway-York Farmers' Market: York had reorganized their town website).

• Added this What's New? page. ;-)

Late January—Early February, 2010

• Completely revised and reorganized the website, checked for dead links, added dozens of new articles and links.

• Created a free account at MailChimp , an E-mail Service Provider, to handle collecting e-mail addresses for—and mailing out—an upcoming newsletter.