Whether you are a new or experienced market manager, these resources will help you structure your market, increase customers, recruit vendors and effectively promote your market with the community.

• Start a Farmers' Market
• Market Funding Opportunities
• Shop & Taste Events
• Food Assistance Programs
• Liability Insurance
• Mobile Messaging
• Market Data
• All Forms

Market Governance:

Note: These sample documents are merely starting points to assist markets in the creation of their own rules, bylaws, and vendor agreements. The samples provided here may not accurately represent what these markets may currently be using for governance.

• Sample Market Rules, Market Bylaws, Vendor Applications, and Vendor Agreements

  • Alamogordo Farmers Market Rules & Regulations (2017)
  • Española Farmers Market Rules and Bylaws (2017)
  • Idalia Road Marketplace Market Rules, Vendor Application, and Vendor Agreement (2017)
  • Santa Fe Farmers Market Rules & Regulations, Bylaws, and Fees (2017)
• Market Manager Succession Plan
• Sample Farmers' Market Job Description
• Sample Market Manager Job Announcement/Advertisement

Logo Downloads

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NM Farmers' Markets Logo - Color
(Transparent PNG)

NM Fresh Local Logo - Color
(Transparent PNG)

New Mexico Taste the Tradition
Logo (NMDA)

NM Farmers' Markets Logo - B&W
(Transparent PNG)

NM Fresh Local Logo - B&W
(Transparent PNG)

New Mexico Grown with TraditionLogo (NMDA)

Publications

All publications link to PDF's that will open in a new tab. If you'd like to save a copy to your computer or device, right-click or long-press on each to choose to save or download a copy.

• Getting Started with Farmers' Markets (Wallace Center)

• New Mexico Market Manager Resource Guide (Adapted by the NMFMA from the Farmers' Market Federation of NY)

• Tribal Farmers' Market Manual (Farm to Table & NMFMA)

• Recruiting Vendors for Farmers' Markets (Wallace Center)

• Growing New Mexico's Food System By Empowering Low-Income Eaters (NMFMA)

• Food Safety and Quality Control Manual (American Friends Service Committee)

Evaluation Tools

• Tools for Rapid Market Assessments
  A project of the Oregon State University Extension Service
  
  
• Sticky Economy Evaluation Device (SEED):
  Developed by Market Umbrella in New Orleans, the Sticky Economy Evaluation Device (SEED) provides user-friendly methods for estimating gross receipts, customer counts, where customers come from, how much they spend at nearby businesses, how frequently they shop at your market, and sales per square foot. SEED also contains a multiplier tool that can help you demonstrate how "sticky" your market dollars are in the local economy (sticky, as in they stick around and re-circulate).

Shop & Taste Event Templates

"Shop & Taste Farmers' Market Cooking Demos" is a new event format we are offering to qualifying members. Approved events can qualify for up to $500 in reimbursement that will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Shop & Taste Templates

To learn more, please contact Andrea Warner, market manager liaison, at andrea@farmersmarketsnm.org.

Promotional Products

• NMDA "Taste the Tradition" Produce Bags, T-Shirt Bags,
  and Twist Ties:
  New Mexico Department of Agriculture
  Contact: Felicia Frost
  (575) 646-4929
  Website

Your market and vendors may qualify for other promotional items, such as materials promoting Double Up Food Bucks. To access these materials, visit our Online Store (NMFMA membership login required).