Tent Talk Live: Creating and Maintaining Confident Vendors

This week we’re sharing a live recording from the 7th annual InTents: the Farmers Market Conference which we hosted in San Diego and online earlier this month. In this Tent Talk Live episode we hear from shiny flanary, a queer Black farmer and founder and manager of Come Thru Market, a Black and Indigenous incubator farmers market and farmer training program in unceded Chinook and Cowlitz territory (so-called Portland, Oregon). In her session “Creating and Retaining Confident Vendors”, shiny lays out a toolkit for extensive farmer and vendor orientation and models how she establishes a culture of learning rather than assumed expertise and builds vendor comfort, relationships and retention. This week's episode is made possible by support from USDA, Square, Market Wurks, Farmers Market Coalition, The Food Corridor and American Farmland Trust.