Time? Money? Both? Just too confusing? Maybe next season?

If you don’t have even a simple web presence yet, I would bet those are some of the reasons why.

How about a turn-key Web site from an award-winning designer. As simple or complex as you need. Less than you’ve probably been told, and with one thing no one else can give you: a super web address.

Lets say your Farmers Market name is Columbus Farmers Market. Your new web address would be:

http://Columbus.FarmersMarket.com

Or Fayette Farmers Market:

http://Fayette.FarmersMarket.com

How about Roseville Farmers Market:

http://Roseville.FarmersMarket.com

Still not sure? Think about YOUR Farmers Market:

http://YourNameHere.FarmersMarket.com

Cool, uh? Turn-key web site for you. I’ve been developing web sites since 1995, when people thought I had finally become a geek (naw, that was years earlier).

Starting at just $99   (with a $5 monthly hosting & maintenance fee)

Questions? Please CLICK HERE

STAY ABREAST … EASY

I searched and compared, and did it some more, and I finally selected FeedBurner to mange the FarmersMarket mailing list. So, with all the time I spent, just to be fair, it would be just wonderful for you to simply sign up.

It’s very simple: when I write a new post (such as this post), you will get an email (usually the next morning) notifying you of the new post and what it’s about. At the very most, you will only get one email per day, even if I were to go hog wild (organic hogs, of course) and write 17 posts. You would only get one email the next morning telling you I went hog wild and wrote 17 posts …. you will not get 17 emails.

SHORT AND SIMPLE … OR NONE AT ALL

On the other hand, if I have no news to write about, you will get no email … none, zip, nada.

If I write nothing for 11 days, you will hear nothing from us for 11 days. And, of course, you may cancel at any time. It is very safe and very private. Even when you sign-up, you will go through a two-step confirmation process, which should help you feel at ease.

Please try it. You may even find out about things you will completely miss otherwise … good things, maybe even some great things. And before you know it, you’ll begin to look forward to that email.

You’ll find the sign-up box on the right hand side of most pages (not the state pages), the one with the ‘Subscribe’ button. Really, it’s painless.

Thank you!

The following states have successfully made the transformation to the new Farmers Market State list. Even if you are not a resident, please check them out …

Alaska

California

Georgia

West Virginia

Wyoming

NOW SEARCHABLE

When you get any new state page, you will see a search box on the top, right. Keep in mind that it doesn’t only search what’s on that particular page, it searches the entire database … and it’s fast.

Whatever you enter in the search field will be checked against every word in the database. It is not case-sensitive, nor do you need to type entire words, such as city names. Actually, you are better off not typing exactly what you’re looking for. For example, let’s say you want to pull up all farmers’ markets in San Francisco. You could simply enter: cisco — and within seconds, it will display all the results that include San Francisco. Too cool.

The results page of a search abbreviates the listings it finds (for now, at least), meaning you will not see the entire market listing. To obtain more infromation about a particular market in the listing, simply click on the title (the city and state above the listing) to expand that individual market listing and see it in its entirely. The, to see another in detail, use the BACK button on your browser to take you back to the results listing.

This new format will offer both the market manager and the market shopper many other benefits. But so as not to be overwhelming, I’ll release more of the new features in the coming days and weeks.

Most Beta Testing is Complete

Since I am deep in building the new Farmers’ Market Listing, Wyoming just became the first state to make the complete transfer and be fully listed in the new format.

Searchable!  Yay, it’s about time. This is very cool … all listings in the new format will be fully searchable.  From a simple, single search field (which you will see on the states pages), you can search on anything … yes, I did say anything.  Any word at all, including a zip code.

Each of the market listings is now upgradeable by the market manager, so they will be able to provide much more information.  We will have multiple levels, and each one starts at the free level.  As of right now, all of Wyomings are shown at the free level, but probably not for long.  We have some very unique ideas in store, but our primary goal was to keep the costs within the range of everyone.

Very Economical

My target was that a year’s worth of promotion could stay within the realm of lunch money … lunch money, that is, that you might spend in a day or two!  Extreme affordability is very important to me.  I’ve owned this site since 1995, and I’ve personally covered ever single expense since then.  So to hire a person (or two) to truly manage the site, well, most people don’t work at my rates, except maybe life-long interns.

With pride, I present: Wyoming

Aug 22 Update: As of now, Wyoming will be changed again. Finalizing the details for the upgrade options has allowed me to add more information to the free listing. But wait til you see the the upgrades I’ll be presenting, and one particular feature that will be only on the Gold Member version. At this point, we will have the customary Bronze, Silver and Gold upgrade packages, all falling into the category I like to refer to as “spare change pricing.” But remember, the introductory pricing will be temporary … use it or lose it.

Free Mac OS X and Windows XP icons

More free icons, if, for nothing else, to add some new color and uniqueness to your desktop.

No installation needed … they are already applied to folders. Just copy and enjoy.

MAC DOWNLOAD (DMG)
WIN XP DOWNLOAD (ZIP)

Free Mac OS X and Windows XP icons

For all my friends who either sell or shop at their local farmers’ markets across the country, I humbly present to you a free folder-icon to keep your organic files properly stored in.

MAC DOWNLOAD (DMG)
WIN XP DOWNLOAD (ZIP)