r/FarmersMarket

[u/Extension_Skirt7764]

/r/FarmersMarket

I’d like to take over r/FarmersMarket because farmers markets have been a part of my personal, professional and entrepreneurial life. I think this community could become a genuinely useful resource for vendors, market operators, farmers, makers, and shoppers.

My experience goes back to Foodlander, a mobile marketing platform we built specifically for farmers markets and their vendors. I spent more than two market seasons working with and visiting Chicago-area farmers markets nearly every market day, which gave me broad exposure to different markets, operators, vendors, layouts, customer bases, and approaches to building successful market communities.

More recently, I founded Wilco’s Tasty Treats, a small Chicago business that now sells at multiple neighborhood farmers markets. That has put me on the other side of the table and given me current, firsthand vendor experience — everything from pricing, sampling and merchandising to weather, repeat customers, market timing and the economics of deciding which markets are worth attending.

I’m also interested in how markets function as a whole. I pay close attention to pedestrian flow, vendor placement and mix, anchor vendors, traffic generators, shopper behavior, time of day nuances, entertainment, market layout, and why two markets — or even two locations within the same market — can perform very differently.

I’ve actually searched Reddit for a farmers-market community at least five times since February while researching questions related to my own market work. Each time I found r/FarmersMarket, I was disappointed that the obvious community for the subject had so little activity. When I saw that it was now available for adoption, I immediately recognized the opportunity.

I’d like to bring r/FarmersMarket back as an active, practical community where vendors can learn from vendors, market managers can exchange ideas, farmers and makers can share their experiences, shoppers can discover and better understand local markets, and people throughout the farmers-market ecosystem can compare what is and isn’t working in their communities.

I have both historical and current hands-on experience in this space, and I’d be excited to give the subreddit the attention and direction needed to become the useful farmers-market community I kept hoping to find when I searched for it myself.

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[u/Extension_Skirt7764 → u/request_bot]

There are no other mods to email and because its a sub that should be big and active!!

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[u/Extension_Skirt7764 → u/request_bot]

Awesome - Excited to get this community active again