Bates Area Civic Association

This is neat.

Nine Farmers’ Markets in D.C. Now Accept Food Stamps

Nine District farmers markets now accept food stamps, a step applauded by Mayor Adrian Fenty in a recent press release.

Markets that now accept food stamps and Get Fresh checks:

14th and U – 14th and U Streets NW;

Adams Morgan – 1800 Columbia Road NW;

Bloomingdale – 1st and R Streets NW;

Brookland – 12th and Newton St. NE;

Mount Pleasant – Lamont St. and Mt. Pleasant St. NW;

RFK Open Air – 2700 Benning Road NE;

Riverside/Heritage Park – 601 Division Avenue NE;

Ward 8 Farmers’ Market – Alabama Avenue at 6th Street SE;

FRESHFARM H Street Market – Between 609 and 625 H St NE.

In 2008, D.C. Hunger Solutions began a project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers’ Market Promotion Program, to provide training for interested area markets on accepting food stamps and to provide stipends and targeted assistance to four markets. Farmers’ markets bring healthy and nutritious food into communities that lack adequate access to fresh fruits and vegetables. By accepting food stamps, markets can ensure that more people will be able to purchase fresh produce.

Visit the DC Foodfinder (www.dcfoodfinder.org) for a full listing of farmers’ markets and their hours of operation

*BFM is a very active member of the Farmers Market Collaborative

Bus Shelters are Home to New Farmers’ Market Advertising Campaign
Shop at a farmers’ market – and use your food stamps too. That’s the message of a new advertising campaign by the D.C. Farmers’ Market Collaborative that was displayed in fifteen bus shelters across the city. Click here to see the ad (pdf).

Aimed at raising awareness of farmers’ markets in D.C., the ads also highlight the markets in the District that currently accept food stamps. The ads were developed by the D.C. Farmers’ Market Collaborative,* with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority generously donating space for the ads.

Ads were placed at the following shelters:

• H Street & North Capitol Street NW;
• North Capitol Street & Florida Avenue NE;
• Mount Pleasant Street & Kenyon Street NW;
• Rhode Island Avenue NS & North Capitol Street NW;
• 14th Street & R Street NW;
• 14th Street & Rhode Island Avenue NW;
• Rhode Island Avenue & Newton Street NE;
• D Street & 3rd Street SW;
• North Capitol Street & H Street NW;
• H Street & 6th Street NE;
• Martin Luther King Avenue & Mellon Street SE;
• 16th Street & Irving Street NW;
• 4th Street & H Street NE;
• Burroughs Avenue & Division Avenue NE;
• and South Capitol Street & Malcolm X Avenue SE.