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- EIN 93-1056376
- (503) 643-5345
- Po Box 4 Beaverton OR 97075-0004 USA
- www.beavertonfarmersmarket.com
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Agricultural Programs, Food
Mission: Our mission is to give our community access to a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm and artisan food products direct from the producer, to provide an informal social gathering place in an open-air setting, to enhance the beaverton community, and to support our local growers and artisan food makers by providing them with direct marketing opportunities in our markets.
Programs: We operate a saturday market february through november. The saturday market is the largest event in the city of beaverton most weeks, with thousands of visitors. It remains the community gathering place. We work to improve community public health and welfare, and to improve direct marketing opportunities of local farms and food producers. In support of this we act as a market maker insuring a vibrant mix of vendors and patrons. We offer free-to-the-public programming at the market regarding public health and welfare (kids' market sprouts program focuses on early education on health eating and we provide non-vendor spaces to local nonprofit service oriented organizations), we require vendors to accept standard federal and state food assistance programs, we support gleaners programs collecting unsold food donations for food banks, we secure and manage the physical market site on market days, and we curate a vendor list selected to drive community attendance across seasons and socioeconomic statuses.