Hi Folks,
We have been running our own winter version of the Harvest Health Coupon
program this season - those of you using EBT machines in the past 2 seasons
are familiar with these EBT incentive coupons.
We now want to survey our customers as to the impact this has had on their
access to fresh healthy local food over the winter.
Rather than recreating the wheel, I thought I'd check to see if any one had
a similar type of survey they'd be willing to share that we can tweak to
reflect our situation.

Thanks much!

Sherry

--
Sherry Maher
Market Manager
802-869-2141

Winter Farmers' Market
A Project of Post Oil Solutions
www.postoilsolutions.org

You can simply stop participating in a system that abuses animals or
poisons the water or squanders jet fuel flying asparagus around the world.
You can vote with your fork, in other words, and you can do it three times
a day.
Michael Pollan,

Sherry-
Great question and funny that you should ask! At an EBT steering Committee meeting yesterday we talked about developing a simple yet universal Harvest Health coupon survey for all VT FM participants. I am unsure if the timeline will match yours but I have included both Erin from NOFA and Rachel from UVM Center for Sustainable Ag who are taking the lead on this to get their feedback.
I know we can help provide something- even if it is the survey that was developed a few years back.

Thanks,
Abbey

Abbey Willard
Local Foods Administrator

Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets
116 State St.
Montpelier, Vermont 05620-2901
Tel: 802-828-3829
Cell: 802-272-2885
Email: abbey.will...@state.vt.us<mailto:abbey.will...@state.vt.us>
www.vermontagriculture.com<http://www.vermontagriculture.com/>

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Hi Folks,
We have been running our own winter version of the Harvest Health Coupon program this season - those of you using EBT machines in the past 2 seasons are familiar with these EBT incentive coupons.
We now want to survey our customers as to the impact this has had on their access to fresh healthy local food over the winter.
Rather than recreating the wheel, I thought I'd check to see if any one had a similar type of survey they'd be willing to share that we can tweak to reflect our situation.

Thanks much!

Sherry

--
Sherry Maher
Market Manager
802-869-2141

Winter Farmers' Market
A Project of Post Oil Solutions
www.postoilsolutions.org <http://www.postoilsolutions.org/>

You can simply stop participating in a system that abuses animals or poisons the water or squanders jet fuel flying asparagus around the world. You can vote with your fork, in other words, and you can do it three times a day.
Michael Pollan,

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Thanks Abbey!

I did think there was a survey already in use for Harvest Health maybe in
2010.  Don't recall seeing anything last summer for it.  Erin might know
about that.  Maybe I'll put a query out on the FMC list as well and will
surely share back with you, Erin and Rachel anything I get back.

Sherry

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Willard, Abbey
<Abbey.Will...@state.vt.us>wrote:

Winter Farmers' Market
A Project of Post Oil Solutions
www.postoilsolutions.org

You can simply stop participating in a system that abuses animals or
poisons the water or squanders jet fuel flying asparagus around the world.
You can vote with your fork, in other words, and you can do it three times
a day.
Michael Pollan,