Comments on: Shopping At Farmer’s Markets with Food Stamps

By: Naturallivingshow

Naturallivingshow — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:58:00 +0000

I think this is great to buy good wholesome food with food stamps! If
anything people with public paid food assistance should not be able to
buy expensive non nutritive junk food like Doritos… Commodities
only….no packaged foods, just whole foods such as beans, rice, cheese,
fresh fruits and veggies, milk, eggs, flour, etc…

By: Good Girl Gone Green

Good Girl Gone Green — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:07:00 +0000

When we were living in Wichita, KS the local farmers market accepted food stamps and I think it is great!!! :) :) Everyone should be entitled t good and healthy food.

By: rosa

rosa — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:53:31 +0000

im having the same problem. i cant seem to find any in houston that accept lonestar

By: crissy

crissy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:00:12 +0000

HI COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME OF ANY OR ALL OF THE FARMERS MARKETS IN HOUSTON THAT TAKE FOODSTAMPS I CANNOT FIND ANY THANKS… WE WENT TO THE BIG ONE ON AIRLLINE TODAY AND THEY DONOT WISH THEY DID AND I DONT KNOW WHO TO TALK TO TO GET THEM TO. IT WOULD BE NICE THEY ARE THE BIGGEST ONE I HEARD. CAN U HELP ME PLEASE THANKS

By: JRedmerski

JRedmerski — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:26:05 +0000

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I really like this topic and am glad your view on the issue is a positive one. I find it surprising and awful that anyone would think people on food stamps shouldn’t be entitled to healthy food. It’s just sad.

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By: Dex

Dex — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:19:01 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Why can’t something be done about the people who always abuse the system? It’s like no one cares; it’s okay to live off of the system, as long as you are a single mom with 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (and so on….to infinity) kids. Too bad there can’t be a law to ban these baby-factories from having more children; children who will probably have a poor life; and who will repeat the process–9-fold. Responsible people have 1,2,3 kids–what they can afford, and those kids usually grow up to be responsible and WORKING. Welfare moms have an exponential number of kids, who grow up to live off of the system, just like mom. In just 2 generations, you will have 36, 49, 64, 81 more living off of the system. The worst part: they know what they are doing and they laugh about it. They absolutely LOVE that they are living for free, off of everyone who works. It’s a game.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:39:18 +0000

Dex there will always be people who abuse the system. There are those who do not though. This post was geared towards those people who truly do need the assistance and want to use their food stamps for healthy food.

By: Dex

Dex — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:31:20 +0000

I would really appreciate anyone’s opinion on food stamps. I have become very cynical as I have learned more and more about the Michigan welfare system due to a renter of mine. She is 19, and now has 2 children (two different “baby daddies”, as she calls them. I believe both are drug dealers, who travel up from Detroit a few times a month.. She receives $500+ in food stamps (she sells half for cash–I reported her–and her friends, who do the same thing– and they do absolutely nothing about it); $300+ in cash assistance; HUD pays for her apartment (except for $118); they bought her a $1200 car, and then she quit her job. She feels that as long as she continues to have babies, she can live for free, forever–or at least until she can’t have any more children. She parties like a rock star, and it makes me sick. She saw an episode of Judge Judy, where a 38 year old, single mother of 6, had never worked in her entire life, and I believe this is her role model. What the heck is going on with this system? She even receives an earn income check for $2500 or so, even though she only worked a few months in her entire life. In my town, is seems as there are 20+ girls doing the exact same thing. I believe they average $1000 per month in benefits, and will never pay in a single cent. It appears as if this scam has been going on for years, and that the info passes from deadbeat mom to deadbeat mom.

By: smilinggreenmom

smilinggreenmom — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:14:35 +0000

Absolutely agree! Everyone deserves healthy foods and I would definitely prefer that our local farmer’s benefit from this over the nasty processed foods manufacturers.

By: Terra

Terra — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:24:38 +0000

I pray that more people will choose to use their food stamps to support local farmers and eat well. I would prefer my tax dollars go toward safe, healthy food over processed crap any day. It’s when people spend WIC and food stamps on “junk” food that I become angry and disgusted.

By: Marietha

Marietha — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:32:09 +0000

Did you know that you purchase vegetable and fruit bearing seeds & plants with food stamps? You will need to find a grocery store or a “big box” store (that accepts food stamps) that sells the plants. You might get lucky and find organic seeds and plants. It’s a great idea for those that can accommodate even a small garden and just think how much one could save on real fresh tomatoes alone instead of those tasteless tomatoes in the grocery stores.

By: Annette

Annette — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:34:47 +0000

I think that it is awesome! It is nice to read this and see so many other people who agree. Many people where I am still don’t understand. I have 3 children who are on WIC and here we can actually get organic milk with our WIC checks. A woman in line was actually very rude and gave me a hard time last week for getting organic milk on WIC. To her it is a waste of taxpayer money but to me it means giving my children the best that I can.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:33:36 +0000

i think its great that people can use their food stamps and WIC at the farmers market. I dont think we can in my area. or atleast from what i have heard we can’t but it would be nice. i would much prefer tax dollars go to local farmers than junk food.

By: Lynn from OrganicMania.com

Lynn from OrganicMania.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:26:21 +0000

Tiffany,

I completely agree with you. I”m happy to say that our local farmers markets in DC run by FreshFarmMarkets, not only accept WIC coupons, but they DOUBLE them…so that people can get twice as much food for the money. It’s a great program, and one of the challenges is getting the word out about it.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:41:55 +0000

Thank you for writing this article. The more people think about where there food comes from the better off we will be.

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:25 +0000

I had read somewhere that Farmer’s Markets were starting to accept food stamps. I am a huge advocate for buying fresh, local food, so I am completely in favor of this idea. I am not sure how this would work at all the local markets though. At my favorite one, the farmers still sell everything out of the back of their trucks.

I could go on and on about this topic. :-) I will say this much. Healthy eating means less health issues. Less health issues means a reduction in the need for expensive medial treatment. Maybe if we all just ate a little better, healthcare would be so darn expensive.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:50:57 +0000

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!!
I agree that all farmers markets should accept stamps. This is the problem I see in many of the lives of people we minister too. They end up having to shop and high end grocery stores where the meat smells the moment you walk in the store…kids buying candy and guzzler drinks full of corn syrup. I am so frustrated with it all. So thankful many markets are changing what the acept. The hood needs to eat healthy too!!!
great post!!!

By: Katharyn

Katharyn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:53:22 +0000

I’m thrilled that people can use food stamps at farmers markets.
I also think it’s wonderful that some food banks do $5 dollar non-perishable bags for those of us who could get by with our food budgets, but not remain healthy (5 dollars buys you a random bag of non-perishables, so you can spend your merger food budget on fruits and veggies and non processed protein). Since I took a drastic pay cut and became the only sorce of income we have used this service a few times.

Once you receive food stamps, it is up to you how you want to use them. If this man wants to buy salmon, by all means let him buy salmon (which I’m betting was on sale) because he’s going to pay for that by having to stretch his food budget elsewhere. I suspect the rest of his meals that week were not quite as expensive, if not the rest of the month – that doesn’t mean they weren’t tasty, healthy, well rounded meal, but salmon for one if on sale isn’t actually as expensive as it sounds!

By: Robyn

Robyn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:24:19 +0000

Our Farmers’ Market started taking food-stamps and WIC last summer. I thought that was great!

My son’s birthmother is on WIC. She told me that, until this year, she couldn’t get fresh fruits or vegetables with it. But she could get plenty of juice and peanut butter. But no bread, until now, either.

How insane is that?

By: Jennifer Lachman

Jennifer Lachman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:46:26 +0000

The food stamps program is not only a welfare program, but it is also intended to help the department of agriculture.The program is to help people eat healthy fresh foods and some states wont allow you to purchase junk food like donuts or other treats with them.