Tent Talk

Tent Talk is a podcast for farmers' market managers, farmers, food makers, and anyone who counts on farmers’ markets as a source of income. Please join us as we interview farmers’ market experts, talk about ways to improve local food communities, and provide you with tips on building a successful farmers’ market business.

Tent Talk is produced by Farmers Market Pros.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 38 minutes
Episodes: 352
Years Active: 2018 - 2025

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Ep 289: Encore Episode: Communicate with your Market Community

Communicating with your farmers market community can take a lot of forms nowadays. Do you send emailed vendor advisories? Use a private Facebook or Instagram group? Smoke signals or carrier pigeons, …

00:58:42 | Mon 15 Apr 2024

Ep 288: Market That Merch

What do farmers market people bring home from vacation? Our first stop is always is the local market, and farmers market merch is our favorite souvenir. Selling shopping bags, t-shirts, water bottles…

00:38:11 | Mon 08 Apr 2024

Ep 287: Welcome to the Info Booth

Your Info or Welcome Booth is your market home away from home. It's often the place that shoppers and farmers and vendors find your team, where you sell fun merchandise, and where you process SNAP EB…

00:33:34 | Mon 01 Apr 2024

Ep 286: Taking Funding for Granted with Melissa Siwiec

What project could you complete if you had funding? The deadline for submitting Farmers Market Promotion Program grants is just 51 days away. This week, we chat with Melissa Siwiec, executive directo…

00:40:33 | Mon 25 Mar 2024

Ep 285: Live From InTents 2024

Our Live from the InTents Conference episode has become an annual tradition, and it's one of our favorites every year. Tent Talk producer Leandra Hays sat down with conference attendees and asked the…

00:34:51 | Mon 18 Mar 2024

Ep 284: Moving Your Market

Moving a market is not as simple as scooting a tent or two down the street (not that scooting any tents is without drama.) Sometimes you lose part of your site to a construction project, sometimes a …

00:30:22 | Mon 11 Mar 2024

Ep 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation

Are you a farmer or small food business trying to navigate finding spaces to sell at farmers markets? Are you a farmers market manager buried in application emails and trying to find the perfect need…

00:55:52 | Mon 04 Mar 2024

Ep 282: Social Media is a Team Sport

Plenty of us have a love-hate relationship with social media.There's nothing like it right now for keeping shoppers up to date on market offerings days and times, and helping your farm or bakery stan…

00:37:00 | Mon 26 Feb 2024

Ep 281: Farmer Julie Stoner Has Eggs in a Few Baskets

Farmers Julie of Stoner Family Farms has diversified her products to achieve better sales at her farmers markets. Her farm is a family operation, and the market business is her baby. Bringing her dau…

00:29:46 | Mon 19 Feb 2024

Ep 280: 2024 InTents Conference Preview

The 8th annual InTents Farmers Market Conference is just around the corner, starting 3 weeks from today. Listen in to hear more about this year's schedule and what's coming up here in San Diego and l…

00:33:42 | Mon 12 Feb 2024

Ep 279: Maya Madsen: Black History Month and Beyond

We've known Maya Madsen since the beginning of her phenomenal Black woman-owned business' journey. You've heard from her before. We check in often enough to consider her an unofficial Tent Talk podca…

00:53:43 | Mon 05 Feb 2024

Ep 278: Hatching New Vendor Businesses

How can talented food makers learn to be successful farmers market vendors? In this week's episode of Tent Talk we're chatting about vendor education. Being passionate about your product is important…

00:33:01 | Mon 29 Jan 2024

Ep 277: Chef Saeed is on Fire

Enjoy this week's Vendor Story episode. Hot sauce is a fast growing category at our farmers markets nowadays, and Chef Saeed is on fire with his fermented sauces featuring unique flavor combinations.…

00:43:51 | Mon 22 Jan 2024

Ep 276: Back To Basics

With lots of new farmers markets ramping up for their first or second season, let's take it back to the basics. Experienced manager? Stay with us, sometimes a little refresher can be a great thing. F…

00:49:20 | Mon 15 Jan 2024

Ep 275: 2024 InTENTions

It's a new year, a blank slate. January always feels like a good time to think about what's working, what's not, and create your list of things to change and things to do at your market, and personal…

00:52:30 | Mon 08 Jan 2024

Ep 274: Ringing The Bell on 2024

Happy New Year! 2023 was a lot, full of changes, excitement, highs and lows. We're welcoming 2024 and looking forward to focused growth, outreach and some exciting collaborations. Unless the universe…

00:02:37 | Mon 01 Jan 2024

Ep 273: A Holiday Message

Whether and however you're celebrating Christmas today, we hope you're getting a day off from at least most of your duties and chores. Farmers are still feeding animals and…

00:01:52 | Mon 25 Dec 2023

Ep 272: Christy Campli: Managing All the Events

How do you go from zero to 60, or maybe 90, in a bit less than three short years? For Christy Campli, some keys were starting with experience in local food systems, and building on an established bra…

00:42:11 | Mon 18 Dec 2023

Ep 271: The Best Time for Markets

Farmers markets are always a good time! The question is when is the best time for your market? Setting market hours is a foundational decision. There are a lot of factors at play. Whether your market…

00:34:46 | Mon 11 Dec 2023

Ep 270: Holiday Gifting

Tis the season for holiday gifting! Farmer, vendor or market manager, it's time to remember your employees, volunteers and maybe some of your great customers or loyal CSA members. If material gifts a…

00:32:00 | Mon 04 Dec 2023

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