Farmers & Producers Market Seminar
March 25, 2010
Sponsored by Aberdeenshire Council and SAOS under Cultivating Collaboration (C2) project, free to delegates.
Venue: Barn and Bushel at Thainstone.
Programme
12.00 Convene for light lunch
13.00 Welcome by Chair, Provost Bill Howatson
13.15 Scottish Farmers' Markets Partnership - Sally Crystal, Chair, Scottish Association of Farmers Markets
13.30 Market models, trends and developments - Douglas Watson, National Development Officer
13.50 Marketing & promotion of farmers markets - David Lamb, SAC
14.10 Information and communication - Sarah Milne, Co-ordinator
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Shape of the Future? Good Food Market - Colin Tawse (tbc); LEADER possibilities - Vicky Thomson
15.15 Market organiser's perspective - Ron Reid (tbc)
15.30 Stallholder's perspective - Andrew Booth
15.45 Developing farmers markets in North East. Workshop session facilitated by Douglas Watson
16.30 Summary and close
Complementary information for delegates will be available on
Support for Aberdeenshire Business - Douglas Rennie
Grampian Food Forum - Elizabeth Mathie
LEADER - Vicky Thomson
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