She can buy produce at the grocery store down the block, but she prefers the farmers market, where she can double her food stamp value and buy more “special” produce, like watermelons and apple cider.
“It is expensive here, too, but I can buy something that is special,” and that is, “good for farmers,” Nicolayeva said on a recent Wednesday morning as she picked through bushels of freshly picked gala apples.
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Bitch and moan all you want about the US,but it is and always will be the destination of choice for immigrants.Our country may have deteriorated somewhat but it's still the greatest country in the world.
It's time for it to run out. Local produce is just about done for the season.
so now food stamps are good for farmers?? how about this, come to this country, get a job and pay for your own groceries
I would rather have food stamps usable at a farmers market than to allow them for purchas of soda, popcorn, chips, and other less than optimally healthy foods!
Anon 10:24, spot on! I would much rather see families shopping at the farmers markets, and the lady is right - it DOES help local farmers. Thank goodness they made it an option to spend them at the farmers market.
I just wonder how many recipients of food stamps shop at the farmers market in Salisbury?
10:24, I'm with you.
Lived on farm for most of my life, and my parents had a fruit market of 45 years. They disdained food stamps because if they had a customer who had no money, they gave them the veggies. Taking care of your brothers does not include the Gov telling you you have to do what is morally right. Maybe they just understand what being responsible and moral really means?
If they want to operate at a loss, good for them. I think they would rather just give the food away then bother with redeeming the food stamps.
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