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Models for Farmer-Low Income Consumer Connections
Contents of this Web Page:
Farmers’ Market Matching Funds
Food Shelf Programs
Farm-Based Programs
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Farmers’ Market Matching Funds
Market matching funds mean that SNAP/EBT shoppers get extra food dollars to spend when they use their SNAP/EBT benefits at the farmers’ market.
SNAP/EBT + Market Bucks at Minnesota Farmers' Markets
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, “Market Bucks” program.
Blue Cross “Market Bucks” pilot program at Midtown Farmers Market
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Food Shelf Programs
Giving Green program of Second Harvest Heartland. Several food rescue and food donation programs involving farms and farmers’ markets are included in this initiative.
Fruits of the City, Minneapolis/St. Paul. Homeowners with fruit trees register their trees; volunteers come to harvest excess fruit & deliver to food shelves.
Harvest for the Hungry. Corporate and individual donations are used to purchase fresh vegetables from area farms, which are then delivered to food shelf locations in the Emergency Food Shelf Network.
Plant a Row for the Hungry, a public service of the Garden Writers’ Association.
Gleaning Program Guidelines from University of Maine Extension
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Farm-Based Programs
(Note: CSA = Community Supported Agriculture, season-long “subscriptions” to weekly produce deliveries from a farm.)
Bluebird Gardens, LLC. Detroit Lakes, MN. Owner Mark Boen takes applications from individuals who want CSA shares but can’t afford them, and asks for donations from his other CSA customers to sponsor those shares.
Healthy Food for All CSA Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Food Stamp CSA, report from the Rodale Institute
“It’s a SNAP” CSA. Owner Al Jabs is SNAP-certified and offers between 40 and 50 CSA shares as part of his 400-share CSA operation.
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