Open Farm Days survey and updates - September 14, 2023

Good afternoon,

We hope everyone is having a wonderful fall and enjoying the beautiful sunshine.

Open Farm Days – Celebrating farming & food in Frontenac & Kingston is continuing and we wanted to connect with you to share some updates and reminders.

Events

  • Open Farm Days is on until Sunday, October 15 and you still have time if you want to host an event on your site.
  • It could be a ticketed event, or a free drop-in event. Submit your events here.
  • Same structure as we have used for 2023, the benefit of having a website, we can add and update events throughout.
  • All of the marketing will continue to be directed to www.OpenFarms.ca
  • The Core Goals for Open Farms are here.
  • If you have questions or want to discuss a possible event, please reach out to Debbi at dmiller@frontenaccounty.ca

Marketing

  • Please keep posting on your social media channels and be sure to tag partners in your posts.
    • Tag @visitfrontenac @visitkingstonca, @frontenaccounty @southfrontenac, @city.of.kingston
    • Some suggestions for hashtags to use #OpenFarmDays, #InFrontenac, #VisitKingston, #YGK, #SouthEasternOntario, #OntariosHighlands, #ExploreON, #OntarioTravel
  • Please share each other’s posts. We are stronger together and need to support each other.

Survey

  • It is important to the Open Farm Days team that we hear from the farms, businesses, and community organizations about their events with Open Farm Days.
  • Please take some time to complete the survey and offer your comments once your event is over. If you didn’t participate, please take some time to complete the survey and let us know why.

Survey will remain open until Wednesday, October 18.

Follow up with your participants

  • If you have asked your participants for feedback through a survey or poll and are able to share, please send it along to Debbi so that we can include it in the wrap-up report to the Planning & Economic Development Committee.

Wrap Up Meeting

  • Mark your calendars – Monday, October 30 at 7 pm for a Wrap Up online call about Open Farm Days. Please plan to attend if you participated or if you chose not to participate in 2023. It is important to hear from everyone.
  • Link will follow as we get closer to the date. I will send out a reminder the morning of October 30.
  • If this date doesn’t work for you, we will share the notes after the meeting. Please feel free to set up a time to connect by phone or send your comments along.

Thank you for everything each of you are doing to celebrate farming & food in Frontenac & Kingston.

Richard, Amanda, Ashley, Tracey and Debbi

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