Membership
Important Changes to Our Membership Process
We’re making a significant update to our membership process – changes that streamline renewal, make it quicker and easier for members to stay engaged, and increase and enhance access to information and resources to support and sustain your farmers market.
What's changing? Two things:
FREE Membership:
Thanks to a generous grant from the State of Oregon, OFMA is offering no-cost memberships throughout 2024 and 2025.
New Online Membership Platform:
Starting this year, we're partnering with Marketspread as our new membership platform. This software includes features and functions to improve market operations and administration and increase market visibility and promotion through inclusion in our online market map directory.
To become or remain an OFMA member, please choose "Apply" or "Renew" in the section below for instructions on joining our organization.
Manage Your Membership
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LOG IN TO MARKETSPREAD with your credentials to update your market profile for the upcoming year.
Next, click the Join Today! button at the top of your Marketspread dashboard.
Then, look for notifications on your Marketspread dashboard and inbox confirming that your membership was renewed.
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VISIT MARKETSPREAD to register an account.
After you complete your account registration, your market will be added to our association.
Next, look for notifications in your Marketspread dashboard and inbox that confirm your membership.
Then, update your market profile with the most current and accurate information about your market.
Why Become A Member?
OFMA membership includes the following benefits:
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Have your market featured in our online market maps, which draw thousands of visitors to our website each year.
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Enhance market operations and build staff and vendor skills with our library of guides, templates, videos and articles.
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For market preparing to obtain or retain the ability to process SNAP benefits at their market, our staff is available to support with getting approved with FNS, finding funding for equipment and services, operating a SNAP program at your market, and getting connected with Double Up Food Bucks as a SNAP matching program.
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Participate in OFMA’s free educational webinars and monthly peer support spaces to learn more about market management and food systems leadership.
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Access our private Facebook group and join a statewide email listserv where members share news, ideas, and questions related to farmers markets.
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Have a voice in shaping state and federal policy, regulations and legislation, and discuss important issues during our yearly online annual meeting with market representatives from around the state.
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A $40-$75 value, membership in the FMC includes access to affordable D&O insurance for nonprofit markets, a 15% discount on select market management software and other member-only resources.
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Receive discount codes or cost coverage options for market management software like ManageMyMarket and Marketspread.
Membership Requirements
To be a member market of Oregon Farmers Markets Association, your organization must:
Operate a market that meets on a regular, recurring basis in a public location.
Have vendors who sell agricultural products they grow, raise or produce themselves directly to consumers.
Either be currently operating or have concrete plans to be operational in the upcoming market season.