JEFFERSON CITY — The Farmers’ Market Matching Grant program provides funds to help increase buyer traffic at markets across the state.
This grant awards up to $1,000 for expenses associated with promoting each farmers’ market. Projects should promote the farmers’ market in the local community and improve understanding, perception, knowledge of and location of the market.
We look forward to seeing all the creative methods each of these farmers’ markets uses to promote Missouri Grown and their farmers’ markets. The following markets will receive funding: Arnold Farmers’ Market, Boone County Farmers’ Market, Boonville Farmers’ Market, Brookside Farmers’ Market, Cape River Front Farmers’ Market, Capital City Farmers’ Market (Jefferson City), The City Market (Kansas City), Columbia Farmers’ Market, Creve Couer Farmers’ Market, Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers’ Market, Ferguson Farmers’ Market, Go Farm Farmers’ Market (West Plains), Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market, Hickory County Farmers’ Market, Ivanhoe Farmers’ Market (Kansas City), Joplin Empire Market, Lake St. Louis Farmers’ Market, Lincoln County Farmers’ Market, Market on Main by City of Winfield, Midtown Farmers’ Market; (St. Louis), Monett Farmers’ Market, Nixa Area Farmers’ Market, Ozarks Farmers’ Market, Washington County Farmers’ Market, Washington Farmers’ Market, Webb City Farmers’ Market and West Plains Area Farmers’ Market.
— Missouri Department of Agriculture
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