Tent Talk

This week we're joined by Michelle Pusateri, Founder and Granola Master at Nana Joes Granola. After spending years working as a pastry chef in high-end restaurants in San Francisco, Michelle set off …

Ok market managers, time to get real! This week we’re tackling the tricky topic of "uninviting" a vendor from your market. Maybe they can't follow the market rules, or they're burnt out and the quali…

Our guest this week is Jake Johannes, farmer at Sacred Sun Cooperative Farm and Board Chair at the Brookside Farmers Market in Kansas City, Missouri. As a year-round farmer and vendor-run organizatio…

"How much does it cost to pop-up a tent here?" If we had a nickel for every time a potential vendor asked us this question, we could retire from managing markets! No two markets are the same when it …

This week we're joined by farmers market manager and market musician, Kristin Eggen. Kristin is in her second year of managing the Decorah Farmers Market in a rural area of northeast Iowa. One of the…

Our guest this week is Sadie Scheffer, CEO and founder of Bread SRSLY. Sadie launched her gluten-free sourdough company in her home kitchen in San Francisco back in 2011. While her initial business p…

This Tent Talk Live episode is from long-time farmers market vendor and InTents Conference veteran, Sarah Marshall of Marshall’s Haute Sauce in Portland, Oregon. Sarah’s 2022 presentation “Can We Tal…

This week on Tent Talk we're sharing another live recording from the 2022 InTents Conference! In his presentation “The State of the Market: Claiming our Place in the World," you’ll hear farmers marke…

Earlier this month we hosted hundreds of farmers market managers and participants at our 6th annual InTents: the Farmers Market Conference. Over the course of the conference, we invited our attendees…

This week on Tent Talk we tackle a question we frequently receive from market managers: where do you find new farmers market vendors? Whether you're looking to fill a specific vacancy left by a long …

This week our guest is Jorge Bustamante, Vendor-101 grad and owner of MyPozole. When COVID-19 forced Jorge to shut down his previous business, he saw a new opportunity to follow his dreams and share …

In the last few years we’ve seen a huge increase in online services that allow shoppers to pre-order from local farmers and vendors and get their groceries delivered. Though these services may offer …

Our guest this week is Melissa Maltais, Membership and Program Lead at BC Farmers Markets in British Columbia, and facilitator of that organization's Hatch & Hype incubator program.⁠ Melissa was one …

Our guest this week is Emily Josenhans, Vendor-101 Grad, farmers market vendor and Founder & CEO at Domaine Santé. After working as a clinical and private nutritionist and witnessing the struggles of…

Since no two farmers markets are the same, it's only logical that there are many different ways they can be operated. Organizational structures vary greatly, but whether a market operator is an emplo…

This week we’re joined by our good friend Sarah Marshall of Marshall’s Haute Sauce and her daughter Adeline of Adeline’s Bunny Puffs. Sarah is a long-time vendor at Portland, Oregon area farmers mark…

This week on Tent Talk we're joined by Lauren Wood, Director of The Fresh MARTA Market, a pop-up farm stand that sources produce from local farms and brings them to five MARTA public transportation s…