The new year is shaping up to be a busy one for PCFMA and we are excited to get started!
Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association
食品和饮料服务
Concord，California 385 位关注者
Connecting California farmers with San Francisco Bay Area consumers since 1988.
关于我们
The Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association empowers California farmers to be enormously successful in Bay Area communities. Since its founding in 1988, PCFMA has grown to become California's largest operator of certified farmers’ markets with nearly 60 weekly markets in the Bay Area. Certified farmers’ markets offer only California-grown products sold directly to consumers by the farmers that grew, nurtured and harvested the crops. All PCFMA markets accept WIC FMNP (Woman Infant and Children Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program coupons) and CalFresh ( through the the Golden State advantage EBT cards). For more information, contact the Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association at (800) 949-FARM or go to www.pcfma.org.
- 网站
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https://www.pcfma.org/
Pacific Coast Farmers'? Market Association的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 食品和饮料服务
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Concord，California
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 1988
- 领域
- Farmers'? Markets和Farmers'? Market Association
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获取路线
5060 Commercial Circle, Suite A
US，California，Concord，94520
Pacific Coast Farmers'? Market Association员工
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During Farmers Market Week, PCFMA and our partners and allies throughout California celebrate the work that we do together behind the scenes to sustain farmers markets as affordable and accessible for all.
In January, funding for the California Nutrition Incentive Program (CNIP) at the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) was identified as one of the budget items to be cut to help close the state’s budget shortfall. In 2023, California’s farmers markets successfully advocated for $35 million to be added to the budget which would allow CDFA to apply for USDA funding through the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP), using the CNIP funds as the required match. The January 2024 announcement meant that CDFA could not spend the CNIP funds, even though they were already approved. The loss of this funding threatened statewide programs including Market Match, the largest of those programs. Our latest blog post uses this tough battle as an advocacy case study to highlight how in the following months, California’s farmers markets rallied – sometimes literally – to save this relatively small funding stream that has had a significant impact on both farmers and consumers throughout the state. How did a group of farmers markets, mostly small-scale nonprofit organizations, win over elected officials in the largest state in the nation? Dive in more in our latest blog post and learn more: https://lnkd.in/g87SF4hj Shout out to the organizations that supported this effort: Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association Ecology Center, Berkeley Agriculture Institute of Marin Alchemist Community Development Corporation Market Match
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Two family members from Lemongrass Farm, a Fresno-based farm that sells in some PCFMA farmers markets, were injured in an early morning hit and run while setting up their stand for a farmers market. Please help support the family and the farm as they face these health and financial challenges. https://gofund.me/07401159