We are asking for your participation in a survey on local food distribution being conducted by the UNH Department of Natural Resources. We invite commercial fruit and vegetable farmers like you to express your needs, preferences, and willingness to pay for distribution services.
Your responses to this survey are very important and will help distributors, producer cooperatives, food hubs, and other organizations understand your distribution needs, and better evaluate potential approaches for addressing the regional needs of growers throughout New Hampshire.
This survey should take twenty-five minutes to complete. If you are 18 years or older, please click on the link below to go to the survey website (or copy and paste the survey link into your Internet browser) to begin to begin the survey.
Survey Link: https://unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dbUXfXGYFrvdDQF
Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and all of your responses will be kept confidential. The access code is used to estimate a response rate. No personally identifiable information will be associated with your responses in any reports of this data. Should you have any further questions or comments, please feel free to contact Julia Jones at jws47@wildcats.unh.edu or Dr. Alberto Manalo at alberto.manalo@unh.edu or 603-862-3917.
We appreciate your time and consideration in completing the survey! It is only through the help of growers like you that we can provide information to help businesses and organizations strengthen New Hampshire’s local food distribution system in a way that truly works for growers!
Many thanks,
Julia Jones, Graduate Student, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
Dr. Alberto Manalo, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
