What is the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program?
The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, popularly known as WIC. The WIC Program provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education at no cost to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding post-partum women, and to infants and children up to 5 years of age, who are found to be at nutritional risk. The FMNP was established by Congress in 1992, to provide fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables to WIC participants, and to expand the awareness, use of and sales at farmers’ markets. For more info, please visit the state website at http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/FMNP/FMNPfaqs.htm.
What is the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)?
The Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) is a program in which grants are awarded to States, United States territories, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments to provide low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs. The majority of the grant funds must be used to support the costs of the foods that are provided under the SFMNP; State agencies may use up to 10 percent of their grants to support administrative costs for the program. For more info, please visit the state website at http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/SFMNP-Fact-Sheet.pdf.
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) Checks can be spent...
WIC
- Spent on fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and fresh cut herbs
- only whole (no change given)
- only from May thru November of the specified year
- only with authorized farmer
SENIOR WIC
- Spent on fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, fresh cut herbs, and honey
- only whole (no change given)
- only from May thru November of the specified year
- only with authorized farmer
What is EBT Farmers’ Market Nutrition Promotion Project?
This project, funded by the Network for a Healthy California of the CA Dept of Health Services, promotes nutrition education to EBT card users at CA Farmers’ Markets so that more people will use their EBT cards at Farmers’ Markets in exchange for market token/scrip (s) to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.