We host our "Growers Fare" event in Mid-march every year, this year is March 21st. We have been hosting in partnership with the Grand Rapids Downtown Market, who lets us use their banquet room space for free, this definitely helps bring in extra traffic to the event since Saturdays at the market are pretty busy. We are pretty successful in getting participation from a majority of the CSA farmers in the Grand Rapids area and its one of our non-prints key events. We are trying some new things for the event this year and having more of a focus on local farmers in general and not just CSA farms to try and get more participation from farmers, but we are definitely still highlighting CSAs. We use social media as out main form of marketing for the event but have also done spots on local radio/tv morning programs and print a bunch of posters to get out to local businesses.
We host our "Growers Fare" event in Mid-march every year, this year is March 21st. We have been hosting in partnership with the Grand Rapids Downtown Market, who lets us use their banquet room space for free, this definitely helps bring in extra traffic to the event since Saturdays at the market are pretty busy. We are pretty successful in getting participation from a majority of the CSA farmers in the Grand Rapids area and its one of our non-prints key events. We are trying some new things for the event this year and having more of a focus on local farmers in general and not just CSA farms to try and get more participation from farmers, but we are definitely still highlighting CSAs. We use social media as out main form of marketing for the event but have also done spots on local radio/tv morning programs and print a bunch of posters to get out to local businesses.