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Farmers’
Markets and Roadside Stands
Farmers’ markets and roadside stands provide New Yorkers with
fresh nutritious food and support regional farmers. Markets provide
healthy, reasonably priced vegetables, the chance to meet the growers
of your food, and oftentimes a rewarding sense of community. To
be accessible to lower income community members, farmers markets
need to be affordable, be easily reachable by public transit or
on foot, and sell foods appropriate to the communities they serve.
Many
people can purchase food at farmers’ markets with the help
of the Farmers’
Market Nutrition Program. The program provides special checks
to low-income, nutritionally at-risk families enrolled in the Women,
Infants, and Children Program (WIC) and Senior Meals Nutrition Program.
The checks are redeemable for fresh fruits and vegetables at participating
farmers’ markets. Several farmers’ markets are also
accepting Food Stamp benefits, with more to join the program this
year. To see if your local market is offering the Food Stamp EBT
(Electronic Benefit Transfer) payment option, click
here.
Conducting
outreach in your community on the programs can help low income people
gain access to healthful food each week. Click here to download
a promotional brochure on Farmers
Markets.
The USDA's
Community Food Security Toolkit also has useful recommendations.
For a general list of farmers markets, contact the New
York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. or the Farmers
Market Federation of NY.
Northside
Food Network Puts HANNYS Mini-grant towards Farmers’ Market
Second Sale
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