CalFresh beneficiaries who are eligible to match up to $10 of EBT funds purchased on each participating market from June 1st through November 20th or until the funds run out, participants could be receiving up to $30 in tokens on a weekly basis.
“The previous year, our Market Match program provided all our beneficiaries with an extra $38,249 in tokens to help them buy healthy foods and start growing gardens, while maintaining more than $76,498 of local EBT funds that are destined for our farmers,” said Kristin Plante, who is the manager of the Nevada County social services program.
This year 2024 the County of Nevada is proud to partner with Sierra Harvest to provide this valuable service to CalFresh beneficiaries. Three farmers markets are participating in the Market Match program this year.
New Farmers Markets Participating in the CalFresh Market Match Program
- The Grass Valley Market
- Pine Creek Mall near Raley’s (Pine Creek Shopping Center, Grass Valley, CA 95949)
- Thursday, June 6th – September 12th (9:00 am – 1:00 pm)
- The Grass Valley Market
- Pine Creek Mall near JC Penny’s (Pine Creek Shopping Center, Grass Valley, CA 95949)
- Saturdays, April 20th to November 23rd (8:00 am – 12:30 pm)
- Nevada City Farmers Market
- Union Street in the city center of Nevada (100 Union St, Nevada City, CA 95959)
- Saturdays, April 13th -December 21st (8:30 am – 1:00 pm)
How to Get the Market Match Tokens?
To receive tokens, CalFresh participants must present their EBT card and ID at the Market Manager’s booth. Market Match is the state of California’s healthy food incentive program, which is the same as the CalFresh nutrition assistance benefits of the beneficiaries at farmers markets and other direct-to-farm locations, Market Match is distributed approximately to more than 60 community organizations that are operated by farmers markets in more than 270 different locations throughout the state.
You can find more information about how it works here. If you would like to subscribe to the quarterly newsletter to receive information about the Ecology Center’s Equity Program and farmer’s market access, which shares information about the Market Match program and other news, you can register here.
Double Your Food Dollars: Get More Fruits and Vegetables
Market Match is a nutrition incentive program that provides extra money to customers who use CalFresh EBT at approximately more than 270 fruit and vegetable markets who come to participate in agricultural stands, CSA and mobile fruit and vegetable markets. Ecology Center, which is a non-profit organization in Berkeley, CA, is in charge of running this program with many partners throughout the state of California.
Find out how it works here and if you want you can subscribe to a newsletter from Ecology Center, about the news of the work of the farmers markets program and Market Match, when you use your EBT card at a farmers market, you can get extra money to buy fruits and vegetables with Market Match.
