From the Farm to the Table

Program Produced: June 2013

Sponsored By:

The Alabama Farmers Market Authority

Overview

The Farmers Market Authority (FMA) is a state agency established to assist in the marketing of agricultural products by providing information, leadership, and modern facilities necessary to move agricultural products from the farm to the consumer. This assures the consumer a better quality product at a reasonable price and a fair return to the producer by providing a convenient, dependable place through which producers and buyers may carry on the process of marketing.

In 1999, there were only 17 farmers markets in Alabama. In 2013 this number will have swelled to over 140. In the early 2000s, the FMA implemented the Farmers Market Nutrition Programs and the Buy Fresh Buy Local advertising campaign. Both are now the driving forces behind the spike in popularity of farmers markets in Alabama. The FMA not only provides an economic impact across Alabama to the local farmers, but to communities as well.

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