Plans for Revision

My biggest need right now might be to nail down how to select participants. I'm planning on using purposeful sampling, but I still need to define the criteria that I'll be using to decipher which participants truly fit into the study. I've found some farmers' market organizations with lists that will certainly be helpful, but I'm also trying to consider other ways of locating participants. It seems that if I only draw my sample from online sources, I'm likely to find a bias toward using online tools--given the fact that most of that sample would probably be using them already. I would like to find as diverse a population as possible, in terms of current farm-related online-tool use.

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  1. EmmaNovember 2, 2021 at 9:18 PM

    hmm that does sound difficult. I think using the farmers market lists is a good start, and I agree that using only online sources could possibly have an unintentional bias show up. Are you part of any specific local, statewide, or national farming communities/groups at all? You could maybe plan to get contacts from those groups and see if they could get you additional contacts too?


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  2. UnknownNovember 3, 2021 at 2:28 PM

    That does seems difficult. It's important to avoid biases as much as possible. I think the best way to start is to just show up at one of the farmer's markets you found and start talking to everyone. Also this may be a bias on my part but I'd imagine the older the farmer the less they are biased towards online tools. In fact you might have the opposite problem. I know it sounds weird but I wonder if you go to the local libraries if they might know some farmers. I feel like local libraries are a good place to bring together a lot of different people.

    -Dawn Brock

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