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The inaugural GYG-FP was held in March 2024 at Cragun's Resort. Close to 80 direct marketing farmers participated, with several of them graduating and becoming the Farmer Trainers in GYG-FP Cohort 2. GYG-FP Cohort 2 uses the train-the-trainer model, where 20 direct marketing farmers attended a 2-day retreat at The Bee Center at UMN's Farm at the Arb to learn the material and apply it to their own farms. These 20 Farmer Trainers are now each training 5 more farmers in their communities, helping them record and categorize farm income and expense every month for 13 months. At year end, these 120 farmers will work with the Core Team to do enterprise analysis, whole farm profitability, prepare for tax filing, etc. The Core Team consists of Heidi Eger, Canton; Erik Heimark, Aitkin; Delma Kaiga, Northfield; Ryan Pesch, Pelican Rapids, and Kathy Zeman, Nerstrand. |
Grow Your Green Farm Profitability (GYG-FP) is an initiative of MFMA to help more farmers achieve farm profitability, so they can continue to help grow more farmers' markets, and feed their communities.To optimize the impact of the GYG-FP program, the workbook and monthly coaching are free for anyone to use. The workbook is free to download in the Resource Room; use it to help you create your own farm financial records. It's designed to train financial principles, with multiple activities included (with the answers!) to reinforce the principles. Also in the Resource Room are templates for other financial tools like the Farm Ledger, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow. When you have questions or need more help, feel free to register for our free Open Office Hours, offered twice every month in the mornings and evenings, April 2025 through April 2026. Click the Open Office Hours icon just below for exact dates and times and to get the zoom link. |
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MFMA provides services, programs, and leadership that support and promote farmers' markets
across Minnesota and our Tribal Nations.
We envision a community of vibrant, profitable, and professionally managed Minnesota farmers’ markets that:
Cultivates, nourishes, and inspires a vibrant local foods community;
provides accessibility to all to local farm fresh foods;
allows local food producers to thrive and grow.
Director of Government Affairs: Friendly Vang-Johnson /// friendly@mfma.org /// (206) 276-2284
Director of Engagement & Inclusion: Sina War /// sina@mfma.org ///
Executive Director: Kathy Zeman /// kzeman@mfma.org /// (507) 664-9446
Minnesota Farmers' Market Association /// 9800 155th Street East, Nerstrand MN 55053
Copyright MFMA 2025