August is peak season for farmers’ markets and other forms of direct marketing in Manitoba. Customers visit farm stands and local markets to meet growers and entrepreneurs selling an increasingly diverse range of products.

Manitoba’s direct-marketing sector gaining strength and diversity

There’s still lots of potential to grow this sector, says Direct Farm Manitoba spokesman

Early August is the peak of summer and peak time for sales at farmers’ markets, farm stands and other ways Manitobans sell their farm-grown products direct to customers. More farm families see the potential to make sales and earn extra revenues this way and the growth in this sector is steady, says spokesman for Direct

New guide explains rules for direct marketing food

Plain language guide lays out regulations for production, processing and selling

Manitoba Agriculture has released a new guide that explains in clear language provincial regulations for producing, processing and selling food direct to consumers. The eight-page guide Direct Marketing Your Food Product covers allowable production levels, grading requirements, and processing standards. Safe food-handling practices and labelling requirements are also explained. The release of the document fulfills


Local farm groups teaming up

Small Farms Manitoba and Direct Farm Manitoba are joining forces. Direct Farm Manitoba is a new association formed after the Farmer’s Market Association of Manitoba broadened membership criteria this spring. Small Farms Manitoba is an online network created by Kalynn Spain who spent the summer of 2014 visiting and writing about smaller farmers in Manitoba.

Phil Veldhuis

Direct farm marketers are forming a new association

The former farmers’ market association is broadening its mandate

The Farmers’ Markets Association of Manitoba has a new name, new classes of voting memberships and a new mandate. Voting delegates of the former FMAM, organized in 2007, agreed last week to change its name to Direct Farm Marketing Association of Manitoba Co-op Inc. so it can represent the broader interests of all those who