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Agricultural Institute of Marin

Also known as: AIM, Agricultural Institute

A 42-year-old (founded 1983) San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates 9 producer-only certified farmers markets across the region — including the famed Marin Civic Center Farmers Market (the largest year-round producers-only market on the West Coast) and the Grand Lake Oakland market in the East Bay. Supports 400+ farmers and artisans from 40+ California counties; ~2 million annual visitors. Mission: 'educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers' toward a food system that is environmentally beneficial, economically viable, and socially just.

What they do

The Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) is a 42-year-old (founded 1983) [[san-francisco-bay-area|Bay Area]] 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Headquartered in Marin County. [[mission-district-sf|Mission]]: “educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers” toward a food system that is environmentally beneficial, economically viable, and socially just.

The 9 farmers markets AIM operates

  • Thursday Marin and Sunday Marin — at the Marin Civic Center, San Rafael; Sunday is the largest year-round producer-only [[farmers-market|farmers market]] on the West Coast
  • Hayward (East Bay)
  • Newark (East Bay)
  • Point Reyes (West Marin)
  • San Rafael Summer
  • Grand Lake Oakland — Saturday East Bay market
  • Stonestown — [[mission-district-sf|San Francisco]] (Sundays at Stonestown Galleria)
  • Clement Street — [[mission-district-sf|San Francisco]] (Sunday Inner [[richmond-ca|Richmond]])

Scale

  • 400+ farmers and artisans from 40+ [[berkeley|California]] counties sell at AIM markets
  • Approximately 2 million annual visitors
  • All markets accept CalFresh / EBT and run Market Match (SNAP-doubling) programs

Other programs

  • The Rollin’ Root — a mobile farmers-market food truck that serves underserved neighborhoods on a rotating schedule
  • Diggin’ Education — hands-on agricultural education for children and adults; market tours and farm visits
  • Farm Audit Program — supports sustainable farming practices among vendor farms
  • Small Business Support — beginning-farmers-market incubator for new producers
  • Center for Food and Agriculture — a planned campus currently in predevelopment

Why it’s listed

AIM is the institutional anchor behind a significant chunk of the [[san-francisco-bay-area|Bay Area]]‘s producer-only retail. [[directory|The directory]] tracks the organization at the knowledge-care tier because:

  • The producer-only certification AIM enforces is the standard against which other [[san-francisco-bay-area|Bay Area]] markets are measured
  • The CalFresh-and-Market-Match programs extend producer-only retail to households across the income spectrum
  • The Rollin’ Root mobile market and the small-business incubator do the food-system work most farmers-market operators don’t attempt

AIM markets in the directory

  • [[grand-lake-oakland-farmers-market]] (East Bay)
  • Other AIM markets to be added as individual directory entries

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Shares approach with: [[farmers-market]] · [[food-sovereignty]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]
  • Contained by: [[san-francisco-bay-area]]
  • Operates: [[grand-lake-oakland-farmers-market]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farmers-market]] · [[food-sovereignty]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[san-francisco-bay-area]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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