Carrboro Farmers’ Market launches new SNAP program – Independent Weekly
Beginning May 1, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will accept benefits from SNAP, the federal assistance program that helps low-income households buy food. It is one of the few farmers’ markets in the country that does.
Vibrant peppers at Carrboro Market, summer 2009. Photo by Victoria Bouloubasis.
“Our whole goal is just to make it an easier way for everyone to come to the market, so it continues to be a community center,” says market manager Sarah Blacklin.
Blacklin says the program is necessary, due in part, to a 14 percent increase in Orange County households that qualify for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, since 2005.
Those peppers look good !