Episode 307: Jimmy DeBiasi: Harvesting Maine's Bumper Crop

Selling farmers market gift certificates are a great way to help dedicated customers introduce friends, relatives and associates to the world of fresher food and local community. Now kick that idea up 350,000 notches. Maine Federation of Farmers Markets proactively sells employers on using market dollars as part of their workplace wellness programs and farmers markets statewide are harvesting a bumper crop of sales and shoppers. Listen in as we discuss that program and other topics including:

• The power of cooperative marketing

• How tough is tracking and billing? (Not as hard as you'd think.)

• The key selling points for big buyers

• Don't miss a little tangent about possible changes to SNAP at markets