CURRENCIES ACCEPTED:
Debit Cards
For a $1 charge you can take money off your debit card in the form of wooden tokens. $5 increments available.
Farm To Family Coupons
The Vermont Farm to Family Program has two goals:
For more information to see if you are eligible, click here http://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/farm_to_family
3SquaresVT Program (Formerly Food Stamps)
Vermonters are receiving over $8 million a month in federal SNAP benefits (called 3SquaresVT in our state). At a farmers’ market, 3SquaresVT benefits can be used to purchase all types of unheated food, including meats, bread, eggs, produce, and even vegetable starts. Because these benefits are now issued in the form of an Electronic Benefit Transfer card (EBT), the market needs an electronic card reader to be able to accept benefits in exchange for food.
Most farmers’ markets need a wireless machine since markets typically do not have access to electrical and phone outlets. If your market does have access to an electric source and a phone line, you can receive a free card reader from the Food Stamp Program that accepts EBT cards only. If not, you will want to consider whether or not your market would like to invest in a wireless electronic card-reader.
Although they are expensive, wireless card readers can enable your market to accept EBT, Debit and Credit. There are also a number of grants and programs that can help markets get card-readers and set-up programs to accept EBT.
Find out about eligibility for receiving an EBT card here: fns.usda.gov/FSP/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm
What you CAN buy with your EBT card at the Farmers Market:
What you CAN'T buy with your EBT card at the Farmers Market
For a $1 charge you can take money off your debit card in the form of wooden tokens. $5 increments available.
Farm To Family Coupons
The Vermont Farm to Family Program has two goals:
- to get nutritionally at risk people to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and
- to expand the use of farmers’ markets.
For more information to see if you are eligible, click here http://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/farm_to_family
3SquaresVT Program (Formerly Food Stamps)
Vermonters are receiving over $8 million a month in federal SNAP benefits (called 3SquaresVT in our state). At a farmers’ market, 3SquaresVT benefits can be used to purchase all types of unheated food, including meats, bread, eggs, produce, and even vegetable starts. Because these benefits are now issued in the form of an Electronic Benefit Transfer card (EBT), the market needs an electronic card reader to be able to accept benefits in exchange for food.
Most farmers’ markets need a wireless machine since markets typically do not have access to electrical and phone outlets. If your market does have access to an electric source and a phone line, you can receive a free card reader from the Food Stamp Program that accepts EBT cards only. If not, you will want to consider whether or not your market would like to invest in a wireless electronic card-reader.
Although they are expensive, wireless card readers can enable your market to accept EBT, Debit and Credit. There are also a number of grants and programs that can help markets get card-readers and set-up programs to accept EBT.
Find out about eligibility for receiving an EBT card here: fns.usda.gov/FSP/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm
What you CAN buy with your EBT card at the Farmers Market:
- Fruits, vegetables or herbs
- Meats, fish, poultry
- Breads and other baked goods
- Dairy, honey, or maple products
- Processed foods like pickles, jams
- Cider and other non-alcoholic beverages
- Other non-hot foods for the household to eat
- Seeds and plants to grow food for the household to eat
What you CAN'T buy with your EBT card at the Farmers Market
- Any food served hot
- Alcoholic beverages
- Pet foods
- Vitamins and medicines
- Non-food items (soaps, cut flowers, crafts)