Eating healthy foods can help prevent, delay, and manage a number of diseases. Farmers markets are the perfect place for customers to source fresh, healthy, local foods! Our friends at the Alaska Cancer Partnership (DHSS) have compiled a one-page resource with some of the best resources you can utilize at the market to inform customers of the health benefits of fresh, local foods. Find printable resources for your vendor booths, videos on cooking techniques, and resources to keep children engaged with making healthy food choices here:

Healthy Eating = Cancer Prevention.

Need help with recipe ideas?

• Alaska Grown Recipes
• Harvest of the month – Alaska Farm to School
• Alaska School Salad Book
• Make It Local Recipes for Alaska’s Children
• The Michigan Farmers Market Association has a host of recipe cards you can adapt for your market.

Check out these meal plans from the Virginia Family Nutrition Program that can be tailored to include Alaska Grown produce as well, for any budget!

• 5 days of recipes – low cost

• 5 days of recipes – mid cost

• 5 days of recipes – higher cost

Providing recipes can help customers adapt the foods available at your market into real meals their family will love. Cooking demonstrations at the market can help make the process of recipe to table even easier!

• What You Need to Host a Cooking Demonstration at the Market – Kansas Rural Center

• FoodLink – Purdue University Extension. This is a website where you can search any fruit or vegetable, receive its nutritional value, how to prepare it, and even recipes.

• Farmers Markets Can Grow with “VegU-cation” – USDA. This can help inform your cooking demonstrations and bring vegu-cation to your markets!

• Budget Shopping Tips – New Mexico Farmers Markets

For additional help and information on bringing healthy foods to your communities, visit the Farm Direct Incentives Guide resource library.