Using Food Benefits at the Farmers' Market

Access to locally grown, fresh fruits and vegetables is essential to healthy families and healthy communities. 

We are proud to help connect local families to local farmers through food benefit programs. 

Vendors can't give change for tokens or coupons. It's a good idea to have some cash with you to make up small differences. 

Visit the Market Manager's tent to get started.

3SquaresVT
 

table of vegetables at farmers' market

Use your SquaresVT card to buy fresh, local foods at our market. All of the farms and bakers at the market accept the $1 tokens you buy with your card.

To use your card, visit the Market Manager's tent.

  • Use your 3SquaresVT/SNAP or P-EBT card to buy $1 wooden tokens that can be used at our locations in South Hero and Grand Isle (but not at other Farmers' Markets).

  • Spend your $1 tokens at any vendor's tent for any food other than hot prepared food or alcohol.

  • Save unused tokens for another day. They do not expire!


With your $1 tokens, you may buy:

  • Fruits, vegetables, and herbs;

  • Dairy products;

  • Meat, fish, poultry, and eggs;

  • Maple and honey products;

  • Baked goods and pasta

  • Jams, preserves, and canned goods 

Crop Cash & *NEW* Crop Cash plus!
 

Crop Cash logo

Double your 3SquaresVT benefit and maximize your food budget with Crop Cash!

When you use $10 of your 3SquaresVT/SNAP food benefits at either of our markets, the market manager will give you an additional $10 in Crop Cash Coupons

You can receive these benefits twice a week by using your 3SquaresVT benefits at both our Wednesday and Saturday markets.

Crop Cash coupons buy:

  • fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs;

  • seeds or starts for fruits or vegetables. 

Tip: Use your Crop Cash first to buy fruits and vegetables. Save your $1 market tokens for all other food products (meats, eggs, bread) and/or to buy additional fruits and vegetables.

Vermont Farm
to Family

Vermont Farm to family logo

VT Farm to Family provides $30 in coupons to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at Vermont Farmers’ Markets during the summer season. To get your coupons:

  • If you are enrolled in WIC, WIC provides your coupons.

  • Community Action Agencies distribute coupons to other income-eligible families. Call the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity at 1-800-300-7392 for more information.


Coupons are distributed beginning in late June. They are worth $6 each and expire on Oct 31st. Spend them at any farmers’ market tent displaying a Farm to Family poster.

With these coupons you may buy only fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut herbs. 

Visit our Market Manager's tent or the Vermont Department of Health's web page for more information about WIC and the Farm to Family Program.