Hey, this is Brett and this 2021 Ram 3500 Crew Cab Longbox Dual Rear Wheel Limited Longhorn Level 1 Package is stock number 13836Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters this 2021 Ram 3500 has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the Eison heavy-duty 6-speed automatic transmission, puts out 420 horsepower and 1075 foot-pounds of torque. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go, super clean all the way around and that's exactly what I'm going to do in this video, go all the way around inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Granite Crystal Metallica is the color I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day and don't miss out on our ever-changing and vast inventory here at Summit Automotive by clicking those bell notifications so you don't miss out on gems like this one. This one comes with the polished aluminum 17-inch wheels. It has Nexon Rodeon LT 235 ADR 17 tires and I would say that they have probably 80% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car fax out of North Carolina. Front fender is in excellent condition, no dents or dings on there. You get the LED headlamps, LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. I'll turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. Front bumper is absolutely perfect. No dents or dings on there and the chrome-trimmed grille is in really nice condition as well. It comes with a nice weather-tech bug shield and the hood is in absolutely perfect condition. No major dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender, very nice as well and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Granite Crystal Metallic, one of my favorite colors on the Rams, has a lot of metal flake in it. It has some purples, some greens, some blues, very cool looking color. As you go down this side of this 2021 Ram 3500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Now if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Front of the dually tub, absolutely perfect. I didn't see any rock chips or anything on there. Still has the 3M rock guard on it. Back wheels, excellent shape as well, no scuffs or scrapes and no corrosion. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. This one does have the rear air leveling suspension so you get a heavy load on there. It'll push that up. It'll tell those airbags to pump up to get you back to level. Once again, framing on bodies in really nice shape, definitely advantageous to get a truck out of North Carolina. Has all the remaining factory exhaust so it has been altered in any way and it comes with the nice factory chrome step bars. This one also has the 50 gallon fuel tank and the tow technology group so it has the 360 cams and the cams down the side. Back bumper is in excellent shape. The only thing I noticed on the entire truck, one little ding above the hitch, pretty common for stuff like that to happen. Backup parking sensors, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch 4.7 pin wire and the tailgate is absolutely perfect. No denser dings on there, looks really good. Comes with an ARE truck cap, power drop down tailgate. Comes with a spray and bed liner, 5th wheel and gooseneck prep package, 115 volt 400 watt plug in LED bed lights, 7 pin and 4 pin wiring back here as well. And that spray and bed liner goes on to the tailgate. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. Coming around to the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side. One thing to note, you also get the LED tail lamps back here. No denser dings in the box and once again the front of that dually tub, very nice and clean. Back wheel is in excellent shape as well. And down the rest of this side of the truck, cabin doors all look really good. This one does have the heated fold up tow mirrors, blind spot monitoring, built in directional signals, the 360 camera. These fold up like so and in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. These back seats are heated on the outboard side, no rips, no tears, latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have, power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. You get the long horn patch stitched onto the backrest. Seats are in really nice shape.   Get storage under here, receiver hitch, reducer, all weather floor mats. You get two USBs, two USB C's, heated seat buttons and 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. In floor storage with removable bins, you can put ice and drinks in there, it's like you have too many coolers wherever you go. If you're not in Wisconsin, just extra storage space. And then the saddle type bags on the back of the front seats are pretty cool. These fold down like that. Child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic. I'll show you the VIN sticker here, no previously owned in Canada trucks here. Here is a tire and loading information sticker. Up front the limited long horn, level one package gives you the light tan and brown leather interior bucket seats. Both of these front seats are heated and cool, no rips, no tears on those seats. They're in very nice condition. Factory all weather floor mats up here, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks, mirrors, get the leather bolster, the wood grain trim. These mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing both sides.  If you check out that outside mirror, you can control that from inside the truck, which is really great for the passenger side blind spot mirror and memory driver seat. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You get the long horn animation at the beginning. You can see that this truck has 22,484 miles on it. You get the digital spinometer compass display in spring clusters. Very nice and clean, seven inch LCD there comes with the heated leather wrapped and wood grain trimmed steering wheel, adaptive cruise controls, regular cruise controls, gear selector, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. There's your shifter for that ice and heavy duty six speed transmission, push button start, push button four wheel drive. And this one has the Uconnect 12 inch Uconnect four radio. This one does have the factory navigation system. There's highway 41 so you can see that is working nicely. It has AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities as well as USB hookups. You get all your controls for your climate and seats and everything here. So there are those. Got your heated cooled seats, heated steering wheel. You got your surround view camera, which shows up up there. Now you got a normal backup camera, a wide backup camera, wide front cam, narrow front cam. Then you have these cams. This is your cargo cam. So you can see it is working. However, there's a cap there so it doesn't really do much. But if that cap came off, it would show you what's going on in the bed. You can get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time and zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results. This is my favorite camera of the whole truck. You can zoom down the sides of the truck so that you can see what's going on where you're backing up your camper or trailer. That would be so handy. I wish my truck had that. Anyways, those are all your different cameras there. And then you get all your different apps, including projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen. We did a demo on Android Auto if you want to check that out with an 8.4. Smaller radio but bigger, but a same operating system. And then the off-road pages, they take a second to load. So while they're loading, I'll show you this one. It does have the Harman Kardon premium sound system. Here's your factory brake controller. Alternate trailer height, part of that rear airbag suspension. Factory exhaust brake, tow-haul mode front and rear parking sensors. You get latitude, longitude, altitude on the off-road pages, as well as the steering angle. So you can see as I turn that wheel that degree changes. And these tires actually turn. You get accessory gauges on here and pitch and roll. So a lot of really cool stuff you can do with this radio. Now down here are your USBs. USB-C is an aux jack, has a wireless cell phone charge pad, 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in. You get the sliding cup holders and coin slots right there. You also get the limited long horn badge on the center console here. Keyless entry with remote start and power drop down tailgate. Dual glove boxes, the real wood grain trim with the long horn kind of burnt into it. That's pretty cool. Passenger side, floor mat and seat are an excellent conditional rips or tears on there. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. You get the power sunroof, headliners in excellent shape, map lights, assistant SOS buttons, power drop down tailgate and sunroof and power side and your window controls. This one also has the rear view mirror camera. So that's what's going on behind you. However, with the cap there, you can't really see anything but it does have that feature and not that the rear view mirror does much anyways since those back windows are really tinted out but it is auto dimming as well. You get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you got your LED side lights here. Those are really bright. Hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. All those lights are very bright and working nicely. Also the cab lights up top working nicely. Under the hood, we have the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine engine base, very clean. Runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change on the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. There is the emission sticker. Shocks are doing a great job holding that hood up. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I'd ship this one back to North Carolina, California, Texas, New York, Florida. 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This is Social Confidential, where ad-week social media editors take a look behind the logo to find out who's tweeting and sharing for major brands. I'm Jillian Boa, and I'm here with Neve Toledano, the social media analyst at Chipotle Mexican Grill, who is fusing pop, influencer and internet culture with burritos and guac. Let's talk about your approach and philosophy around Twitter strategy. Chipotle's Twitter strategy is really inspired by our fans. We're obsessed with what they're listening to, what they're watching, what they're eating, what they're talking about and what they're tweeting. So really social listening is such a big component of our strategy and also engagement. Let's talk about some of the tweets that your team has put up. Can you tell us about that time? Chipotle tweeted out the word simp and why. We were seeing our fans using simp all the time, so we were like, you should use it in a tweet. In order for us to do it, you know, we can't just tweet simp, simp.  Probably not. So we tweeted out only simp for people who know your Chipotle order period and people were going crazy in the comments. They were tagging their boyfriend and girlfriend and putting them up to the test. So that one was really fun. Chipotle social team has definitely shown that the brand is aware of like some of the customer habits. Could you tell us more about that lemonade tweet and what it implies? Our guests don't always use our water cups for so we're just like, let's tweet it. And people in our clients are like OMG, Chipotle knows what's up, Chipotle is watching. So it was definitely a fun tweet. Definitely guilty of, I mean not guilty of taking some lemonade out of water cup. Let's talk about your TikTok presence real quick. What made your team choose a TikTok strategy that focuses on user-generated content versus an in-house produced content? Well, we definitely do a mix of both, but it all goes back to social listening and engagement. When we find a really good piece of content, people are taking the time of day to show their brand love. And even if it's just a comment, people freak out and they really appreciate it. And the content is so awesome. So we were thrilled to put it up on our page and to see how it performs. How has the response to the society of boomers could say Chipotle? Society of boomers could say Chipotle correctly. It's been insane. Both of those videos are top performing TikTok videos ever. A lot of the comments are, I can't believe Chipotle posted this, but again, we don't take ourselves too seriously and we're really aware. We know that a lot of people can also not pronounce Chipotle. Chipotle. Chipotle. Chipotle. Chipotle. So that's a really big part of our social insight. What's a quick piece of advice you would give other social media managers? For anyone just starting in social media, I would say just start. Connect with people, grow your network and don't be afraid to take risks.  For Chipotle, it's really exciting because I get to create content for a brand that I love and a brand that's purpose-driven. So while we're attaching ourselves to internet meme and culture, we're also falling under the umbrella of cultivating a better world. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, Niu. Thank you so much for having me. And thank you for watching. I'm Julian Gamboa and this has been Edward's Social Confidential. I want to eat Chipotle.  I would, but I don't know what the hell Chipotle is. Chipotle? You meet Chipotle?


Finally, a very quick story on eggs. You remember egg prices were going through the roof in 2022. Last year, they kept going up and up. And Elizabeth Warren claimed that this was all greed by greed inflation. She called it inflation by egg manufacturers. They were monopolizing and and it was all their fault. And this had nothing to do with anything like like maybe the fact that there was an avian flu that was killing the chickens and fewer chicken laying hens and therefore fewer eggs. No, no, no, this is all those greedy businessmen, which every problem in the world is always for somebody like Elizabeth Warren, always greedy businessmen. Well, anyway, egg prices are plummeting. They have gone down dramatically in January. They went up a little bit in March. They've gone down a lot again in April. They are now lower than they were really at any time in 2022, maybe right at the beginning of the year. It had similar prices to where they are today. All of that is gone. And my interpretation of that is clearly that greed has been eradicated in the chicken raising and egg producing industry. And if only you could figure out what virus actually eradicated the greed. We could then maybe, you know, maybe genetically engineer that virus so that we could use it to eradicate greed in other industries and therefore bring prices down because we know scientifically that the only reason the only reason the prices ever go up is because of those greedy businessmen trying to make a profit and who drive prices up. So I think you can all breathe a little karma. Egg prices have returned to pre-greed levels. And, you know, at least in one industry, we have wiped out the evil greed of producers and things are back to the ungreedy state that they were because we know that egg manufacturers were not greedy in 2021. So we're back to the to the to the ungreedy times of 2021. Any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get announcement when we go live. And for those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Please welcome back to the stage Stephanie Meeks, the President and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Thank you very much. I'd like to begin by thanking Tim and Kim for their very generous remarks. Thank you. And to say that I have done none of this without amazing colleagues. And I wanted to ask, if you were a member of the National Trust staff, if you would please stand and be recognized for all of our work together. And secondly, I'd like to say to all the people standing in the back, there are plenty of seats up front if you'd want to sit down. And I'd welcome your company up here towards the front. Please come. And thirdly, I just want to say welcome to San Francisco and pass forward 2018. It's a real pleasure to be here with all of you this week and to be in one of America's most beautiful cities. A local writer named Herb Cain once said, one day if I go to heaven, I'll look around and say, it ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. So here in this historic and thriving, diverse and forward-looking city, so full of opportunity and creativity, so rich with possibilities and challenges, we come together again to craft the future of preservation. And in many ways, this is a bittersweet moment for me. As Tim said, I'm stepping down as president of the trust in just a few weeks. So this is my ninth and final opportunity to open this conference and to address all of you. We've come a long way together since my first conference in Austin in 2010. And we've really put in the miles from Buffalo to San Francisco and many, many points in between. And thanks to everyone in this room's hard work and many more, to your dedication and ingenuity and passion, we've really made some great strides together. Before I came here tonight, I went back and looked at my remarks from the conference in Austin. And they had been based on weeks of sort of a listening tour that I did leading up to that first conference about what you all thought we needed to do to move the preservation movement forward. And what I heard from all of you really boiled down to three things. That preservation needed to become more visible, that it needed to become more accessible. And as always, it needed to become better funded. So nine years later, I think we've made substantial progress in each of these areas. Our work to fully embrace our role as a vocal public advocates for our history and our communities continues to grow. Through programs like National Treasures, Reurbanism, our amazing Main Street Network, and NTCIC, along with the great work that you all are doing to save cherished historical and meaningful places, Americans can see and are experiencing firsthand the ways that older places enrich our lives. In hot markets and cold markets, downtowns and small towns, more and more communities are embracing preservation as the way forward, both in saving places that matter and addressing the contemporary urban challenges like disinvestment and displacement, resiliency, and sustainability. Meanwhile, our Hope Crew has completed more than 150 projects, trained more than 1,000 students and veterans, and performed more than $18 million of preservation work and recruited thousands more volunteers to protect places significant to their communities. And our African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, as Tim said, launched a year ago tonight, has brought a new audience to our work and has already attracted $12 million in gifts and pledges in support of saving these diverse historic places. So I stand before you tonight to say that I think that historic preservation is a broader and bolder movement than ever before. As we work harder to tell our full story in a way that does justice to the experience of all Americans, our numbers and our relevance are growing. And yes, we've even made some progress in the funding department. It came down to the wire, but because everyone in this room rallied and pushed and cajoled Congress and wouldn't take no for an answer, we were able to save the federal historic tax credit last December. And as all you all know, yes, we were worried when we were together last November and it was a remarkable accomplishment. As you all know, the historic tax credit has been an unbelievable tool in terms of job creation and private investment. It's helped save tens of thousands of historic buildings over the country. And because all of you, that success can continue. Through the Action Fund and the remarkable and results driven work of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation and the National Main Street Center and Network, we're bringing new donors and investors to our work every day. And we've succeeded in expanding other sources of federal revenue from the Historic Preservation Fund to support for historically black colleges and universities and the Civil Rights Trail Network. And with a rare spirit of bipartisanship and thanks again to all of your advocacy, a parks bill has been moving its way through Congress that includes six and a half billion dollars for deferred maintenance. And that's something we're going to keep working on in the Congress to come. So looking back, I'm proud of the hard work we've put in over the past decade and the results that we've been achieving together. More than 50 years after the National Historic Preservation Act, we've stayed true to our original vision for the movement and strengthened its foundations and community. And we've also helped save the best of our nation, and we've brought Americans together. We've also continued to innovate and created the conditions to ensure future growth and sustainability. So we've come a long way over these past nine years, and I think the road ahead is bright. But of course, there are challenges and opportunities that we can't afford to miss. We're in California, a state that has always looked to and led us to the future. And so tonight as I bid my farewell, I want to talk about five themes that I believe will help guide preservation over the next decade and beyond. The first is something that we've talked a lot about recently, and it was the subject of my plenary address last year. And that's putting people first. I believe the best way to continue attracting more converts to our work is by ensuring that preservation is speaking to the needs of families today. The needs that we can help fill are both prosaic and fundamental. Many neighborhoods in America are looking for more jobs in economic growth. Others, like San Francisco, in the face of rising costs are looking for more affordable housing opportunities. And preservation can help with both. We can help bring more investment to cold markets and more inclusion to hot ones. Every time an abandoned warehouse becomes a grocery store, an old hotel becomes a community center, a church is reborn as a dance theater. Preservation is helping to meet the needs of today's citizens. But our work speaks to deeper needs. In 1943, the psychologist Abraham Maslov came up with a theory of human motivation that he called the hierarchy of needs. And after our most basic needs like air, food, water, and personal safety are met, he argued that the next most powerful need that's felt by every human being is belonging. And as you all know, we see that every day. How old places speak to that need for belonging in a way that little else can. They make that the town that we live in feel like home. They connect us not just to our neighbors, but to ourselves, through our memories of these places. And they also connect us to those who come before us and those who will come after. They help us understand that while we ourselves may only be here for a few decades, our actions will echo on long after we're gone, just as those of previous generations affect our world today. That sense of belonging, that really potent sense of connection across time, these are powerful, even elemental human forces that lie at the heart of historic preservation. And now for a shameless commercial plug. Our colleague, Tom Mays, has recently written a book on this very topic. It's called Wild Places Matter. And you can buy it at the registration desk this week or you can buy it on Amazon. But I hope you'll buy it here because then you can get Tom to sign it for you. So Tom, congratulations on your new book. So as we work to try to meet these basic needs of families through our preservation work, let's also explore these deeper needs of connection, belonging, and meaning. Taking these seriously, I believe, will help us broaden the frame of our work from saving important buildings to preserving the intangible heritage, the customs, the culture, and the practices that undergird them. On Friday morning, we'll hear from Milton Chen, the former executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, who will talk to us about why preserving intangible heritage is so critical to educating the next generation. We'll also learn about some of the innovative tools that our hosts in San Francisco have come up with to support the preservation of intangible heritage. Mike Bueller and his great team at San Francisco Heritage were instrumental in creating the Legacy Business Preservation Fund. It acts as a registry and provides critical financial support for historic small businesses threatened by the rising costs of their leases. And the city has also been leading the way in creating a strong local cultural district network, such as the Caye 24 Latino District in Mission Hill and the Filipino and LGBT districts in Soma. By working to change an ever-changing city, these districts will help ensure that the customs and traditions that have so defined San Francisco over the decades will continue to thrive. And these recent human experiences bring me to my second theme in the spirit of being close to Silicon Valley, and that's innovation. As preservationists, we may focus on the past, but we've never been afraid to embrace the new, whether it's new science, new technology, new research and new ideas. There's so much exciting work happening all over the country. From Los Angeles to Louisiana and Buffalo back to Boise, more cities and states are realizing the potential of GIS mapping to advocate for better preservation outcomes. In Annapolis, Alameda and dozens of other places, cities are creating 3D laser scans of their historic assets, like the one that you're seeing here, both to preserve them and to analyze how they'll be impacted by weather or climate change. With Google Arts and Culture, the National Trust recently created an immersive virtual reality tour of Villa Loouro, allowing people all over the world to explore Madame C.J. Walker's remarkable estate for themselves. Let's take a look. And as we harness new technologies like virtual reality and mobile apps, our horizons will continue to expand. Kim spoke a few minutes ago about the Richard D. Streehouse Foundation and some of the work they've been doing to explore the connection between old places and altruism. And as neuroscientists unlock the secrets of the mind, they're learning more about the biological origins of our place attachment. Why we respond so strongly to certain places and especially older places. To take one example from a fascinating book I read this past year called Cognitive Architecture, our brains are particularly adept at reading the faces of other humans, which is why we tend to read faces into all kinds of things, including the buildings that surround us.  In other words, neuroscience is proving that we innately prefer architecture at a human scale, that quite literally older and smaller is better. Speaking of which brings me to my third theme for the future and that's bringing preservation to scale. There's so much good work going on around the country but there are also many opportunities that are left unrealized due to lack of funding in many cases and sometimes lack of vision. Our research and policy lab has found that while many of America's most prominent cities are primarily composed of buildings that were built before 1942, only a handful of these statistically speaking are protected by any kind of designation. In Los Angeles, nearly 40% of the city's buildings were built before World War II but as of 2014, fewer than 3% were locally designated. In Chicago, that number is 5 to 6%. In Philadelphia, it's only around 2%. In here in San Francisco, roughly 2 thirds of the city's buildings are pre-war, which is quite remarkable when you think that the entire city was rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake. But again, only around 2% of those buildings are designated as historic. Similar percentages can be found all around the country in many American cities so there are plenty of opportunities out there for us to scale up our work beyond individual buildings to blocks in entire neighborhoods. Cities like Los Angeles and Philadelphia have really taken some major steps forward in the past years to allow for more preservation projects and their downtowns are flourishing as a result. In Los Angeles, a partnership in 2000 between neighborhood groups, city leaders, developers and preservationists led to, which was led by our friends at the LA Conservancy, resulted in a new adaptive reuse ordinance that made it easier to reuse historic buildings. It removed regulatory barriers like burdens and parking requirements and it made it possible to repurpose older buildings as apartments, lofts and hotels, many of which had sat vacant for decades. And as a result, the population of downtown LA has tripled and it's now a thriving residential and commercial hub with an astonishing 14,000 new housing units in older buildings. Philadelphia is working on its own adaptive reuse ordinance right now and it's taken other important steps to encourage street life and vitality in its historic districts. Around the same time that Los Angeles began its work, Philadelphia passed an ordinance to make it easier for restaurants and cafes to offer more outdoor sidewalk seating. And as a result, since 2001, between 2001 and last year, their outdoor seating has grown by 439%. So there are real opportunities to see more buildings reused and to bring more life to our historic downtowns. But of course, to accomplish that, we need to expand who we're working with to embrace new partners and to think creatively about new projects. We've heard great examples tonight from our award winners about their work with city officials, local advocates, developers and property owners to modernize regulations, to lift barriers and to make it easier to breathe new life into older buildings. And I'd also like to propose tonight that we work together to get a historic tax credit in every state in the nation. We need to continue to seek out new and innovative funding sources that will support our historic preservation projects. For example, last year, the opportunity zones that were created in the tax overhaul will really boost community reinvestment and provides an interesting opportunity for the preservation community to attract new funding and investment to our work. So to quote one of our most famous Silicon Valley inventors, Steve Jobs, we just need to think different. In this past August, I was proud to be part of the grand reopening of the Cooper-Millera Adobe, which Kim referenced in her comments tonight, a project not too far from here in the historic downtown of Monterey. Cooper-Millera has been a national trust historic site since 1972, and even a decade before that, it was identified as a critical anchor in the more cohesive downtown Monterey plan. Our friends at California State Parks and the Monterey State Park Association did an exemplary job of keeping Cooper-Millera alive in its diverse history and the history of 19th century California alive over many decades, but the site really cried out for adaptive reuse and investment. Over the years, this two and a half acre property has been a dance school, a beauty salon, a tavern, and a boys and girls club, though I hasten to add, not all at the same time, which is why after much discussion with the city of Monterey and the local community, we pushed outside our own comfort zone at the national trust to develop a model that we've been calling shared use. This new and revived Cooper-Millera now includes commercial and community oriented uses, such as an event space, a restaurant, a bakery, along with bilingual exhibits talking about life in 19th century California. We never could have ensured Cooper-Millera's viability, let alone its continued prosperity without bringing multiple partners to the table and saying yes to a dynamic new role in use for this historic building. And I especially want to recognize tonight our partners, Foothill partners, and Doug Wheely, their principal, for working with us over the past eight years to reimagine and re-envision the Cooper-Millera experience. I hope you'll all get a chance to visit because now Cooper-Millera's story will be more broadly told and its history brought back to life once more in a revitalizing downtown Monterey. And we believe and hope that it can serve as an example and a model of sorts to the 15,000 or so other house museums in this country who may be looking for a refreshed vision in the 21st century. Talking about new partners brings me to my fourth theme one that has always been close to my heart and that's finding common cause with our friends in conservation. As many of you know, before I joined the National Trust in 2010, I spent two decades with an organization called the Nature Conservancy. And as I said in Austin nine years ago, I believe that conservation and preservation are essentially synonymous. In fact, America is unique in how our two movements have grown so independently of one another, pretty much everywhere else in the world, they're really considered arms of the same cause. So while we often have distinct focuses and different tools, we have our own unique cultures, I've always been more struck by the commonalities between our two movements. Both are built on a keen appreciation of the fragility of our heritage, be it natural or man-made and a strong desire to preserve what's unique and irreplaceable. Both movements are committed to sustainable solutions and focused on helping communities take action to preserve the things that matter the most to them. And both are full of people who recognize the power of a mutually beneficial partnership because when we work together, amazing things happen. Tomorrow, one of my favorite authors, the award-winning author, activist and citizen writer, Terry Tempus Williams, will talk about the intricate connections between nature and culture and how they undergird our work. And I hope that many of you got to hear Victoria Herman's really remarkable talk earlier today about resilience in the face of accelerating climate change at our trust live. Of course, very sadly, climate change is an issue that is not going away. And according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their most recent report, its most serious effects are going to be felt decades earlier than previously believed. Every year now, the global thermostat gets hotter and droughts and wildfires and storms grow more intense as if we need to be reminded. The impending threat of drastic sea level rise and coastal flooding in America's communities is becoming more dire and more real and more imminent. It's going to take leadership at all levels of government to address these impacts. And as preservationists, as Victoria said earlier today, we have really critical roles to play. According to the Department of Energy, operating buildings accounts for 41% of America's consumption. Energy consumption and 38% of our carbon emissions. So barring some kind of technological, silver bullet kind of breakthrough, it's really hard to imagine that we're going to reach a sustainable climate outcome for our country without thinking about how we're going to recycle more of our building stock. Studies have shown that commercial buildings built before 1920 still tend to be among the most energy efficient buildings. And our research has found that it takes decades, as much as 70 years for even the best lead certified building to make up for the energy and environmental costs of demolition and new construction. So every time a 50,000 square foot commercial building is demolished, the energy equivalent of 640,000 gallons of gasoline is released into the atmosphere. And we have another important role to play as well. As preservationists, we are accustomed to thinking about our built environment over time. And just as we've looked back over centuries to places, to put our historic places in context, we now need to help communities look forward centuries and begin preparing for what we all know is coming. Climate change can be a little bit of a downer. So I'm going to switch gears now to my final theme for the evening, and this is an important one. Connecting to the joyful aspects of our work. The best part of my job over the past eight years has been traveling around the country and getting to see so much of the remarkable work that's underway every day in all 50 states of our nation. When I talk to preservationists across the country, I'm always struck by the passion that they bring to this work. It's this sense of fun and it's this sense of empowerment and it's incredibly contagious. We felt that contagion firsthand this summer with perhaps our most ambitious national treasure marketing campaign yet. And that was the great American road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles along Route 66. With State Farm as our presenting sponsor, National Geographic, Airstream, and several other new partners, we sent a team of preservationists, writers, and photographers on a one month, eight state, 2400 mile road trip along Main Street of America. Along the way they took in some great sites like the Gemini Giant in Wilmington, Illinois, the Fame Blue Whale of Catoosa, Oklahoma, Elmer's Long Bottle Tree Ranch in Orogrande, California. They explored the history of Route 66 from the Dust Bowl to the Green Book, which informed black travelers of safe havens along the route. They talked with thousands of residents along the road and worked to capture their stories, photos, and memories of America's first highway. And everywhere they went they met people who have fallen in love with Route 66 and the 300 communities that line it. And when they heard why we were taking this trip, they wanted to get more involved. Preservation can be very difficult and complicated, but the reason that preservation continues to attract new advocates all over America is because it's infused with joy and love for our country and for our communities. We've reached California and the Pacific this evening and my time on the road with you is coming to an end. But I will always remember and cherish the joy and passion and friends I've made on this preservation journey with you. And I wanna thank you for the friendship you've shown me and for all you've done and continue to do to save the places that matter. Thank you.


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Good afternoon. Welcome everybody to the programs at Farmers' Markets in Colorado webinar. This is Wendy Peters-Miski at LiveWell Colorado and I'm here to welcome you to this webinar. I'm going to be joined today by several other presenters as well to walk through various programs that are available for you and your partners to implement at Farmers' Markets. So obviously I will be thinking about a few programs. I'm Wendy, Director of Food Systems here at LiveWell. We actually will not be joined today by Martha Sullen. I will be doing my best job to work through slides from Martha Sullen to an Ag Business and Food Specialist staff with Colorado State University Extension and is on the board of the Colorado Farmers' Market Association. Martha is very ill, so I'm stepping in last minute to fumble my way through her slides. We will also be joined by Lauren Bell, who is a fraud data and policy specialist in the EBT, so the electronic benefits transfer, EBT unit at the Colorado Department of Human Services. There she works as a Farmers' Market Liaison to help get Farmers' Markets and direct marketing farmers free or low-cost point of sale equipment. We will also be joined by Zora Cobb, who is a program specialist at the USDA Nutrition Service. She's a Farmers' Market Coordinator for the Mountain Plains region, and she consists with any questions, markets, a process to become SNAP authorized and also about receiving free EBT equipment. Lastly, we will also be joined by Amy Nelms, the Food Access Coordinator here at LiveWell Colorado, and many of you know her as a statewide coordinator for the program Double Up Seed Spock. So our agenda today is to welcome you to this. I'm going to walk through the agenda really quickly and then we'll dive right into some specific programs. First, we want to start with a little bit of context setting. So here's what I will present some of Martha's slides from the Colorado Farmers' Market Association perspective about why is this really sort of an important and pressing issue today. We know why are we here talking about connecting various food assistance programs to Farmers' Markets and direct market farming and some of the context we see here in Colorado. Then I will talk specifically about WICS, so the Women and Distant Children's Program for Farmers in Colorado, and then Zora and then Lauren will talk more in depth around SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly Food Stamps at Farmers' Markets. And then Amy will talk about Double Up Seed Spocks in Colorado. We will close with a few frequently asked questions about kind of where you go with specific questions, the troubleshoot specific issues, have some time for your questions, and hopefully our answers, and announce a couple of additional webinars we want to host within this series. So I'm going to write in some of the context setting and why we're talking about this issue here in Colorado today. So this is the point here that's to really talk about, not just Farmers' Markets but really all for direct market farming operations, but as Farmers' Markets sort of by the nature of what they are are very community based and place based institutions and sort of inherently connect with their community in multiple ways and offering programs like SNAP or Farmers' Food Stamps is just one more way to bridge Farmers' Markets to even more consumers and their community and to make more of a community connection. So just a little bit of context about consumer groups really can benefit from Farmers' Markets and sort of building that logic is that specifically looking nationally, you know, we think a lot. I think when we hear about, I grew up this way, when we hear about things like hunger or food insecurity, we tend to sort of think globally, right? So I grew up in the 80s, and when you talk about hunger, you sort of immediately picture that child in Ethiopia, right, and that we are all sort of rallying around. And oftentimes thinking about food insecurity and hunger, you don't often think about it sort of in our own backyard and with our neighbors within ourselves even. So just a little bit of context though is that, you know, there are about 13% of Americans who struggle with food insecurity at some point throughout the year. And food insecurity is defined as a state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Some other points to make as well is that food insecurity tends to be even more prevalent amongst children and affect children in even more severe ways. And in households where children and adults both are food secure, about 8% of our households in the United States. And the last time we collected this data. I should have also mentioned, I'm sorry to go back, I skipped a logistics point, I apologize. We are recording this webinar. We will be sharing the link widely with you and all of your partners afterwards. And also as we go, please use the chat function. You actually can't speak. You're not allowed to speak on this Zoom session, but you can chat in your question. So as you please feel free to put questions as you come up with them into the chat box and we will track them and address them at the end of the webinar. Specifically, some student security and Colorado, about 13% of households are thought to be food insecure in Colorado. And in the counties with the highest food insecurity rates as you see here tend to be more rural, for sure. There are also counties though that have significant agricultural production and several of these counties have very robust farmers markets, for example. So sort of increases maybe the importance of points of access like farmers markets for fresh food in these communities. So why is this access important? I think we are most people are fairly well aware that eating more fruits and vegetables is generally a good idea. I was actually at the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association conference this year and a man presented for this meta analysis of I think around 150 or so different studies that looked at the health benefits of increasing fruit and vegetable intake. And the outcome was just astounding, right? Is that pretty much all of your health outcomes tend to get better and improve when you increase your fruit and vegetable intake. We also know, however, that we don't tend to consume very many fruits and vegetables. Well over 80% of Colorado adults don't consume the recommended number of fruits and vegetables. So it's hard for all of us and then this is exacerbated in low income communities. As you can see here low income Americans consume just over half of the recommended number of fruits and vegetables. Whereas the middle and upper income Americans consume a little bit over 60% of what's recommended for fruit and vegetable intake. So here's a graph that shows that a sort of stark difference across economics, sort of comparing lowering from the higher income Americans and fruit and vegetable consumption. The other thing we know, though, again, raising the importance of why we're talking about SNAP specifically today, is that there are many an increasing number of studies that show that shopping specifically at farmers markets and other sort of direct market operations can increase fruit and vegetable consumption and specifically among SNAP shoppers or SNAP participants. SNAP participants have also reported that produce at farmers markets is a higher quality than supermarkets that made us be more desirable, easier to eat, more interesting, things like that. Specifically on farmers markets in Colorado and actually increasing their importance as well in communities points of access, as I think this Jarvis speaks for itself, is that P2 2012, but those are the general trend over the past 10 plus years, has really been a growth in farmers markets. And that farmers markets, as you know, can look a lot of different ways. They can be big and small. They can move around. But the general trend is that these are becoming increasingly popular in all sorts of communities. The amount that shows farmers markets in Colorado this year, clearly a concentration in metropolitan areas along the front range, but a really nice spread across the state as well. And as many of you probably know, a lot of these farmers markets in very rural communities may be very vibrant centers of their communities. There may be only one or two in the corner of the state, but they're very key and essential to that community. So just a note to you about farmers markets and sort of the populations that they're serving and reaching as well, is that a little bit over, nationally, a little bit over a half of the market directly, the direct market farming operations are actually located in metropolitan counties. So we sort of increasingly see a connection, a real direct connection to between where people are growing their food and selling into population centers. And as the second bullet says, over 80% of farms selling food directly are doing so within 100 miles of their farm. So we're going to really tight community connection. A little bit about Colorado Farmers Market Association. And I apologize I'm not directly involved with CFMA. Do not sit on their boards. But do you can please go to ColoradoFarmers.org to find out more information about CFMA. You're not a member, so please become a member. And since 2007, CFMA has been supporting EBT, so electronic benefits transfer, the Equipment Ease, like a SNAP card, right? They've been supporting this in farmers markets across the state. They've been providing a variety of technical assistance, providing information around the equipment, technical assistance about implementing SNAP. They provide SNAP vouchers to participating farmers markets. And now we're really closely with us at the local Colorado to provide technical assistance around implementing the double F3 buck initiative. And we did have one question come in. I just want to clarify again, I apologize I didn't say it first. We will be recording this webinar and sharing the link out very soon this week. So I'm going to shift here a little bit now to the first specific program that we want to talk about is a special supplemental nutrition assistance program for women and children. This program is known as the WIC program, which has been around for several decades for eligible women prenatally and postnatally with young children. So a couple things about WIC for farmers. We get a lot of questions about really what kind of programs are available in the state of Colorado for WIC. I also should say I do not administer the WIC program. The WIC program is overseen by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and then administer directly at the county level through local public health agencies. So I am also representing public health today on this webinar to provide some updates around the WIC program. So one question we get a lot is around federal WIC program for farmers markets. There are two that you may have heard of, the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, which provides specials for individual vouchers to be only the direct market farming operation. So this is all to say we actually do not have these programs in Colorado and I do not foresee that we would have these programs in the Colorado anytime in the near future as well, but we do get asked about this a lot. Why don't we have FMSE? We have never had the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program. We have made some attempts at the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, administered through the Colorado Department of Human Services, and for a variety of reasons, it is very high overhead and admin costs that just haven't really been cost effective or have the reach that we would like to see. For the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, the Department of Human Services had a lovely response and actually wrote internal policy to then really encourage and promote local procurement, so geographic preference for older adult meal programs, and also to encourage things like gardening on site where they have older adult meal programs. So that was their response. At the WIC level, there's been other responses that both the state and counties have made. So at the county level, this is all to say, even though we don't have the WIC FMSE program, there are a lot of creative things that local agencies can do on their own. So just a couple of examples of what counties have done their own to facilitate connections for WIC farmers markets. I was in Boulder, so a partnership that I did not know this, this is incredible, is 23 years old, so a partnership between Boulder County Public Health and the Boulder County Farmers Market. So they have come together year after year through a program funded directly by the Farmers Market, the CFM, the Farmers Market Association itself. They provide WIC recipients with a $20 WIC market book, so it's a packet of market book, $20 that can be spent on any WIC eligible item, fruits, vegetables, milk, meat, bread, etc. So some of them similarly on the Broomfield, starting in 2013, the Broomfield Farmers Market started working with Broomfield Health and Human Services to build a program specifically for WIC recipients as well. It started off in 2013 with a $10 monthly voucher. Again, this was funded through their Farmers Market just for fresh fruits and vegetables, and it has grown over time pretty significantly. And then in future 2015, it sort of expanded to twice monthly vouchers for $10 for fresh fruits and vegetables. And then just this last season, they increased that to weekly $10 fruit and vegetables vouchers. And they redeemed 456 of these vouchers just last season alone. And sort of at their peak one day alone, they found 35 vouchers were gained from different weekly clientele, which is a pretty significant reach. And at the state level, again, since we don't have the Federal Farmers Market Nutrition Program, what the state department has done is to start a program called Farm to Family, where they authorized farms, not farmers markets yet, but individual farms or farmers, to accept WIC fruit and vegetables vouchers. And that is currently in operation in the state. One big piece of background information here is that WIC is currently moving into an EDT system. So the electronic benefit transfer. So we are now rolling out the state of Colorado called EWIC. So we were run in the same way as SNAP is using an EDT machine. This is fairly new. It's new over in the country. It's definitely new to Colorado. So the state is still working on creating a device that works for farmers, sort of the EWIC device that actually works for farmers, and they're just not ready with it yet. So it's not quite rolled out for this summer. Farmers and farms still are able to work with WIC if they have like an ethernet or a landline connection, but the wireless device is not available yet. I did provide contact information here, though. Cheryl Castle is the one at the Colorado WIC program that you would want to ask her questions about getting the WIC authorization to accept the fruit and vegetable vouchers. Also something a bit worth waiting for, though, is that the SNAP program will be vendor. So eventually after this summer, both WIC and SNAP will be working with the same vendor. So what we're moving towards, hopefully, is that there's one device, one EDT device that can accept both WIC and SNAP. It just won't happen this summer. But it's something to be paying attention to, looking out for technical assistance around before, hopefully, summer 2018. So with that, I'm going to pass it off to our next speaker, Zora Cobb, to talk about SNAP and farmers markets. So the SNAP program, since for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, up until about 2008, you probably would have known it as the Food Stamp Program, but we changed our name. I'm going to specifically cover the farmers market issues. I think the first thing I really want to cover, though, is just an overview of all of the organizations involved. Because when you're looking at accepting SNAP at a farmers market, there's a lot of entities involved in the process of actually setting that up. The first is the Food and Nutrition Service, and that's where I work. The Mountain Plains Regional Office is my office, and I'm a good person to come to if you have just a question about the process. But once you actually decide you want to submit an application to accept SNAP, that's when you're going to start actually interacting with our retailer operations division. And they are the ones who will actually process your application to become a retailer. And I do think it's really important to note that even though we all work in SNAP, if you come to one of us with a question that we have different organizations handle, all we can do is to refer you over. And I think that can be a big point of confusion because we might be able to answer a general question. But when you're coming down to a specific issue, it's really important that you're reaching out to the right entity. Once you actually submit an application, that's when you can either work with farmers market coalitions or the Colorado Department of Human Services to actually apply to receive your free EBT. Right now, the Farmers Market Coalition is wait listing all of their equipment grants. Hopefully that will be changed in the future. But Colorado Department of Human Services also provides free equipment that markets and farmers can use. Once you actually decide to take that step, you'll have to work with a third party processor and that's to actually buy or obtain your equipment from. FMC and CDHS are both basically providing funding, but the third party processor is to actually hold your equipment. When you work with a third party processor, that's who's going to process your payment and push it through the state EBT system. And so that's the other important thing to keep in mind is once you receive your equipment, once you're authorized to become a staffer, you're going to have to link up your third party processor with the Colorado Department of Human Services because they are actually the state EBT, they actually are on the state EBT system. So you'll have to contact both entities and get that set up. Your third party processor though is the one who has their service fees.  And if you would then like to participate in a double flux program, that's when the Colorado becomes involved. But CSNA also provides funding to help with SNAP coupon. So even if you have coupon, you'll still have to have EBT equipment to still process that payment. And so they can help with that part of the system, but when it comes to actually becoming staff authorized or obtaining EBT equipment, once again, you're going to have to make sure you're contacting the right person.  Why are you giving away free equipment? Why is there all of this double flux program? And I just kind of want to go over kind of what brought us to this place. It started in 2012 with a consolidated further continuing Appropriations Act of 2012. And that act provided $4 million per year to provide farmers markets with wireless EBT equipment. When the program first started, we funding directly, and this is FNS to write the funding directly to the state. But going forward, we've actually worked with the contractor and that's how FNC is able to get their funding to provide free wireless EBT equipment to farmers and farmers markets. In 2014, the Farm Bill added a total of 90 million years for 90 million over five years to fund incentive strategies to help staff consumers better for fruits and vegetables. And this is really what's funding. I think what most people here is the CINI grants. Those were, that funding was offered in the 2014 bill. And so that's kind of why we suddenly have all of this additional funding to give to farmers markets to actually accept. Once you decide that you actually want to participate in the staff program as a farmers market or a drug marketing farmer, which you probably consider to be a farm stand, I will add that it's important that you're actually meeting those FNS definitions. It happens a lot that people follow a farmer's market, but it doesn't meet what FNS considers to be a farmer's market, which two or more producers sell their own agricultural products directly to the general public at a fixed location. And that fixed location component is very important. You have a mobile market. You will not be considered to be a farmer's market in FNS's eyes. A very direct marketing farmer, you're an individual producer that sells their own agricultural products directly to the general public. Direct marketing farmers are actually able to move from location to location. And what's important about meeting these two definitions is these are the only two entities that FNS or FNC through their grant program is able to actually provide free equipment to. If you are not one of these entities, they would encourage you to look for other sources of equipment funding because it is a requirement that it really only goes to farmers markets or direct marketing farmers. Community-supported agriculture is, it's a structure that we get a lot of questions about. And the real answer is that pretty much any type of retailer can be a CSA. Most often, it's just being farmer, but if you are a food hub or something similar, you can still be a CSA that does not necessarily mean that you're going to meet the definition of farmer's market or direct marketing. To start the application process to become a SNAP authorized retailer, because that is really the first step in all of it, you need to set up a USDA E-authentication account. And this is what's going to allow you to actually log in and submit additional documents, continue with your application if you didn't finish it before submitting or even just check on the status without having to call an actual person. You can fill out an application online obviously with your E-authentication account. You also have the option to ask for a paper application that will be mailed to you and it's very slow. You will have to mail back all of your documentation, so I would really encourage you to just go with the online application. It's always faster. Once you fill out the application, there's a farmer's market application which is only for farmer's markets. If you are a farm stand or direct marketing farmer or any kind of other agricultural entity, you're going to need to fill out just the basic store application. So some of the questions about that application don't necessarily line up with all of the answers to how your business operates, but really it's important to note that the application is a best guess. After you submit it, that's when you'll have someone from the retailer operation to actually come and ask you any follow-up questions about things that didn't make sense in your application or any kind of additional information that they need. You also will have to submit required documents. The two that almost everyone has to submit is a driver's license and a social security card. The only time you don't submit a social security card is if you're a nonprofit and that's when you need to provide your 501c3 documentation. You also have to print out and sign a signature page where everything you submit on an application is true to the best of your ability. Once you submit that documentation, it starts the FNS time clock for 45 days. That's how long we have to actually approve your application. But keep in mind that 45 days starts from when you actually get all of your documents in, not from the first time that you open up the application and type in 24. If you ever have questions about the status of your application, you should, you can obviously check online, but you should also call the retailer service center and the phone number for this, for that is the end of all of the slides of the webinar. I will say if you call me, I really, really, really cannot help you with any questions about the status of your application. Once you start that document, it's the point at which you are in the hands of our retailer operations division. They are the only ones who can answer any questions about your specific application. I can answer general questions, or before you fill out anything, you can answer those, but once you actually press that submit button, you are fully on the retailer operations division. They are the ones who will answer all your questions. Thank you, Zora. This is Wendy again. And just a quick note as well, and we follow up and we send out the link to the webinar. We will send out that whole list to a required documentation as well so you have that all in one place. So, Lauren, I'm going to pass it over to Lauren Bell at the Colorado Department of Human Services. Okay, perfect. So, as Zora mentioned previously, in order to begin the process to start accepting SNAP at your market, you must apply for FNS authorization. Once you are authorized by FNS to accept SNAP at your market, you will receive an FNS authorization number. And then, once you receive that notification of your FNS authorization number, please notify the CDHS EBT office, which is me, by emailing me directly with your FNS number. Name of your market and a good contact phone number to reach you directly. Once FNS authorizes your market, they also notify our EBT vendor, which is currently JP Morgan, of your FNS authorization and number. And then, just for your information, JP Morgan will mail the market an informational packet on wired devices within 24 hours of authorization. This is currently only being sent for wired devices, whether or not you indicated you needed a wired device or a wireless device. And then, there is funding for point of sale machines that either are low cost or free in order for CDHS to determine funding streams or eligibility for funding. The market does need to be authorized through FNS prior to looking at the funding options. Since the funding is government funding, we never know when each stream of funding is going to end. So, it definitely matters by the time your FNS certified that we look at all those options. And then, once the market is authorized through FNS, the market declares what device they require, we will make a determination of which funding source to use. And then, for federal funding, CDHS will monitor sources of federal funding and refer those markets to apply for free equipment through that source prior to paying for the POS machine. Through CDHS funding. However, there will be instances where there is currently no federal funding for the free POS equipment. In these cases, CDHS will pay for those POS machines as well as the communication fees for 12 months. CDHS will not cover the transaction fees of the POS device for credit or debit cards. The market does need to pay for these fees out of their pocket. And then, as Wendy mentioned before, we are currently converting to a new EBT vendor. Right now, the date of conversion is in July 2017. And as it gets closer to conversion and as we have more information to release, we will communicate that information to the market. And there are two different options for POS devices, either a wired or wireless device. When there is federal funding available for free POS equipment, we will refer the markets who need wireless devices to the federal funding. Any market that needs a wired device will be funded through CDHS. Also, some replacement devices will need to be funded through the state based on federal funding in the past in regards to replacement devices. If your device is broken, please reach out to your third-party processor to determine if the machine is still under warranty. If it is not under warranty and cannot be fixed, CDHS will look into replacing it. And if you do have settlement questions or need manual vouchers, you will need to contact your third-party processor. J.P. Morgan cannot see your settlement information as this is run directly through your third-party processor. Please note that if you are not able to obtain that necessary information from your third-party processor, please contact me. And I can reach out to J.P. Morgan to have them reach out to your third-party processor for troubleshooting and things like that. Great. Thanks, Lauren. Thank you for your patience. There's a little bit of delay when we toggle back and forth here. So, just a reminder, too, please feel free to type in questions into the chat box as we go. We'll address them at the end. Or you can type them in at the end as well. So, now we're going to hear from Amy Nelms here at Louisville, Colorado about Double Up Food Bucks. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. So, I'm the statewide coordinator for Double Up Food Bucks. I want to snap, or it's kind of like a half-snap can wear at your farmer's packet. So, when people bring their EBT card, they receive vouchers that are good for Colorado grown fresh fruits and vegetables. So, the goal is that people can walk away with more fresh produce from a farmer's market. Double Up Food Bucks offers a $1 to $1 match up to $20 every time somebody visits a farmer's market. This is a photo of what someone can buy for $20 and snap benefits alone at a farmer's market. And here's a photo of what someone can buy with Snap plus Double Up, which totals a $40 value. Double Up Food Bucks is meant to be a win-win-win. So, through this incentive program, families bring home more healthy food. Farmers make more money and more dollars are staying in our local economy with strength in the community. In Colorado this year, we've spent eight counties, and then nationally there are 16 states administering the Double Up Food Bucks program. So, how do you sign up? So, all of us talk about snap authorization. That's the first step. So, you have to get snap authorized in order to be eligible for the Double Up Food Bucks program. The next step is to email me, Amy Nelms, at LizvilleColorado.org to get put on our year, and I put year two. It should be year three list. Right now we are full for summer of 2017, so we can put people as a priority for 2018. And then we're going to release our applications in January of 2018. Those are the three. And so once you have snap at your market, this is a great way to get people to buy fresh produce, to support local farmers, and to keep your market affordable for all customers, even if they're on supplemental food assistance. The benefits to joining your community will have access to more healthy food. Your farmers can make more money. So, both snap and Double Up are basically cash to your farmers. So, it's good there. And then you're connected to CDHS and other agencies that promote Double Up Food Bucks market. And then you join a network of committed markets, CSAs, and retailers that all want fresh produce to be a choice for all. You become part of a collaborative network, and we take time to send ideas back and forth about cooking classes, activities, people do, liveable technical support for accessible markets. And so you get to join a state that's very committed to that. All right, and I'll pass it back to Wendy. A little bit of a summary of some of the information that we just provided you here, and some troubleshooting a little bit. Because I know this is also a lot of information, and you can go back and watch this webinar as many times as you want, which I'm sure is what you all want to do. But we do want to summarize some frequently asked questions here as well. So, some things that may come up, again, this is reiterating some of the things that we just said. Say you're confused about where to start, right? What do you need to apply? How do you fill out the SNAP authorization application? That is, there is a retail service center. So there is sort of a generic number for the nation that we have provided here. And again, this service is, I think, all types of retailers. So again, they may not have specific farmers market expertise that they should be able to address all technical questions. Or you can contact ZoroCop directly. And then say after that, say you want to start applying for the free equipment. So Lauren talked about the Colorado Department of Human Services at this point in time until we know anything differently about farmers market coalition and any additional federal funding through farmers market coalition for that free equipment at this point in time. We're really sending people straight to Lauren at the Colorado Department of Human Services about the free equipment. And just start that process. And then so you're wondering, did you get approved? At that point you called the retail service center directly with ZoroCop. When you call that, is there a specific number that you need to provide? Yes, you need to have your SNAP number. You should have an SNAP number already assigned to you before you're even approved. So you just call your SNAP number to check on the status of your application. If you're someone who has already applied to the Farmers Market Coalition, the SMC, for that national program for the free equipment, and you have questions about that application or your equipment was sent to the wrong address, this has been known to happen, please contact Farmers Market Coalition directly at ebtfarmersmarketcollection.org. Again, just to reiterate, so you are a SNAP and you'd like to participate in the Double Up Food Books program in 2018. That's a new email Amy directly to find out about getting calls to that program. Questions about the WIC program specifically? As a farmer farmer, please contact Cheryl Cassell, who works with WIC retailers at the State Department of Public Health and Environment. And then you can also contact me, this is Wendy. If you, I just wanted to flag that throughout, I mean a lot of these issues I think is probably fairly apparent at this point that Double Up Food Books program, money for the free equipment, how you define and direct market farming operations, so many layers of this are determined through federal policies, right? So primarily typically through the Farm Bill, but not always. You know, do we even have funding for the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program nationally and other things like that? A lot of this is federal farm policy work. It is something that Liberal Farmer will continue to work on. We are already ramping up some advocacy work around the Farm Bill, the 2018 Farm Bill. We are about to release our Farm Bill platform. We work with national partners as well as state and local partners all the time about sort of advocacy work at the federal level. So if that's something that interests you and you want to get more involved with, and you have more questions, feel free to email me as well. I love talking about these issues. So those are our frequently asked questions. And before we go into our upcoming webinars, I want to address questions that you have. So again, there's a Q&A box and a chat box. They're both, we're monitoring both. Feel free to type in a question in either. So one question that we have is, so someone asked, my understanding is that people can only use Double Up Food Books or fruits and vegetables. Your picture showed A balsa. Yeah, so you have a question. So yes, you can use SNAP cards for all farmers' markets. The benefit is only for fruits and vegetables and that is accurate. You're paying very close attention. Thank you very much. So what this is clarifying is that when you use your SNAP benefit at any, any, any retailer, farmers' markets, grocery stores, convenience stores, anywhere, you can use your SNAP benefits for any SNAP eligible food items, right? So you cannot use it for hot and prepared food items, but pretty much the vast majority of the rest of food items you can use your SNAP benefits for. For Double Up Food Books, so that one, that extra dollar for dollars spent in SNAP, the Double Up Food Books incentive itself can only be spent on fresh fruits and vegetables. So that is accurate. I'm checking for additional questions and please type some as I check for other questions. We have a couple more minutes. So please feel free to type in any additional questions you have. In the meantime, just to let you know, we are sort of considering this, this webinar here sort of part one of a series. And this was sort of that one-to-one overview of all of the different food assistance programs that might be available for farmers' markets, DSAs, farm stands, et cetera. So we will also be planning two additional webinars. One that will look specifically at sort of what we call community support programs. So if it's cooking matters and their farmers' markets tours, other nutrition education programs, we really want to provide sort of a venue, an opportunity to highlight all of the different kinds of support programs that are available to direct market farming operations. Again, one more bridge to build to community and also kind of programming that's really necessary to complement things like doublet pizza. So we realize being able to accept SNAP and providing incentive alone cannot necessarily build those community connections. But outreach and awareness and engagement and education are really just as critical to make this a very high-reaching comprehensive work. And then we'll have a third webinar where we look at across to the board looking at incentives. So doublet food box is one kind of incentive. But incentive is in other retail settings such as grocery stores. And in that, so doublet food box is a perfect example where it actually exists in farm stands, farmers' markets, DSAs, food boxes, and small to large scale stores. So we will provide a webinar that kind of looks across that spectrum and how these programs look different in different kinds of settings. We have not yet set dates for those. So pay attention. We will send out, save the dates and registration similar to how we did for this one. So a question that came in is if we have any suggestions as to how to make sure farmers are keeping the double up box and SNAP purchases separate. So what happens if someone accepts double up for non-eligible items? That's a great question. My currency for the right items is there's a farmer who has eggs and produce. When you sign up for doublet food box, we provide a training and an entire starter kit. And in that kit, there is a non-collar to produce vendor letter of Colorado produce vendor letter and then contract. And so the contract and the vendor education is really what's going to keep farmers from selling the wrong items for the double up food box.  So that's a practice I highly encourage. And then they sign off that they really understand that those double up food box are for fresh fruits and vegetables. Making sure they know what the bucks look like. And then it's just up to farmer's market managers to monitor what's happening.  But if you notice that there's a farmer taking the wrong currency to market for the wrong item over and over and over again. My advice there and what most people do nationally is just don't reimburse farmers for double up food box. So if you have, say, a bread and meat farmer who continually takes double up food box, I would just do a three warning system and say, I'm sorry, you only sell meat and bread. Here's the letter. Here's the program. You can still take snap bucks for all eligible food items. And just, you know, don't reimburse them if they've done it three plus times. At that point they should know. So it sounds harsh, but once someone doesn't get paid for an item they sell with double up food box, they usually don't, don't do it again. All right, so we'll just wrap up and sign off. So I just want to say again, we will send out a link to this webinar. We will also send out that list of required documentation to become snap authorized. And we will also send out this actual PowerPoint. So if you don't want to watch the whole webinar again, but just skip to sort of the FAQs of the end, you can do that because we'll send out the PowerPoint. So with that, I really want to thank Lauren and Zora and Amy and Martha who's going to be with us today, but the Colorado Farmers Market Association. Thank you all for being incredible partners. I think we have a really robust program because of these partners in Colorado and we are growing these kind of food assistance programs by leaps and bounds all across the state and getting national attention for it because we have such strong public private partnerships across the state. So many thanks to you all. You know how to reach us. Thank you for joining us and until the next webinar. Have a good afternoon.


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