May 5, 2016

31 farmers' markets to receive funds for 2016

Department of Agriculture Announces Farmers' Market Promotion Matching Grant Recipients

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced that 31 farmers’ markets  from across Missouri were awarded grants through the 2016 Farmers’ Market Promotion Matching grant program. 

Each of the 2016 awardees will receive up to $1,000 in matching grant funds toward their farmers’ market promotion projects. The 2016 grant recipients are:

Farmers’ Markets

• Ash Grove Farmers’ Market (Greene County)

• Branson Farmers’ Market (Taney County)

• Cole County Farmers’ Market (Cole County)

• Columbia Farmers’ Market (Boone County)

• Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers’ Market (Jackson County)

• Drumm Farmers’ Market (Jackson County)

• Farmers’ Alliance of Rural Missouri (FARM) (Camden County)

• Farmers’ Market of the Ozarks (Greene County)

• Ferguson Farmers’ Market (St. Louis County)

• Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market (Lawrence County)

• Hickory County Farmers’ Market (Hickory County)

• Historic Downtown Liberty Farmers’ Market (Clay County)

• Historic Downtown Sikeston Farmers’ Market (Scott County)

• Holden Farmers’ Market (Johnson County)

• Kiwanis Club of Kirksville Farmers’ Market (Adair County)

• Maryville Farmers’ Market (Nodaway County)

• Midtown Farmers’ Market (St. Louis County)

• Midwest Association of Farmers’ Markets (St. Louis County)

• Monett Area Farmers’ Market (Barry County)

• Nixa Area Farmers’ Market (Christian County)

• O’Fallon Farmers’ and Artists’ Market (Warren County)

• Ozark Downtown Farmers’ Market (Christian County)

• Raytown Farmers’ Market (Jackson County)

• Shelby County Farmers’ Market (Shelby County)

• Soulard Farmers’ Market (St.Louis City County)

• South St. Joseph Farmers’ Market at the Junction (Buchanan County)

• The Cape Riverfront Market (Cape Girardeau County)

• Vernon County Farmers’ Market (Vernon County)

• Warrensburg Farmers’ Market (Johnson County)

• Washington Farmers’ Market (Franklin County)

• Webb City Farmers’ Market (Jasper County)

The Farmers’ Market Promotion Matching Grant program was developed to increase awareness, understanding and promotion of farmers’ markets to the local community through the development of marketing materials, signs, billboards, advertising, print and digital media that encourages the purchase of local products at farmers’ markets across Missouri.

For more information on the department and its programs, visit agriculture.mo.gov.

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