Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding visited the market at Duda’s Farm in Brownsville, Fayette County, a participating partner in Pennsylvania’s Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The program provides Pennsylvania’s low-income seniors and families with vouchers to purchase fresh, local fruit and vegetables at farmers markets and farm stands statewide.
“In a state as resource-rich as Pennsylvania, no one should go hungry,” Secretary Redding said. “Our Farmers Market Nutrition Programs are part of the Shapiro Administration’s commitment to connecting farmers to the nearly two million Pennsylvanians who may not know where their next meal will come from, and ensuring that fresh, locally grown, nutritious food is available to them.”
From June through September each year, the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Programs provide low-income seniors and eligible participants in the WIC program with vouchers they can redeem through the end of November for Pennsylvania-grown fruit, vegetables, and fresh-cut herbs from approved farm markets and farm stands across the commonwealth. Vouchers are distributed to participants through WIC clinics, and for seniors through Area Agencies on Aging and county aging services partners.
Source: pennwatch.org
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