Taking the time to think about how to make your farmer’s market more accessible to shoppers using SNAP can help to make your EBT program popular with both vendors and shoppers. Prepared by the Virginia Cooperative Extension

Seven Steps to Success by the Project for Public Spaces  

09/15/2014 by Bob Buccieri Consider becoming eligible to accept SNAP at your market: SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits or Food Stamps accepted at your farmers market allows SNAP clients to purchase nutritious locally grown foods while supporting local farmers. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the most current [...]

Grant Writing Tips from Interviews of Funders of SNAP Incentive Programs in Virginia, provided by the Virginia Cooperative Extension  

by Tom Roberts, Maine Federation of Farmers' Market EIN – Employer’s Identification Number, functions in many ways like a Social Security Number for a business or an organization. Farmer's markets run by city or county governments may use an Employer’s Identification Number instead of a Social Security Number (SSN) on their application [...]

Identifying A Market's Mission and Goals Defining a market’s mission is a fundamental task—it defines the market’s aims and activities, its purpose in a nutshell, and hence establishes the boundaries of its operation. And it should answer the question of what you hope to achieve in operating the farmers market. By defining [...]