Two organizations have announced a series of small grants to groups promoting ways to help minority groups become more integrated into the wider community and workforce. The two groups — […]
News Item Types Archives: Fresh Access
Farmers markets’ terminals ease sales
Pennsylvania began issuing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in 1998, changing the way thousands of Pennsylvanians provide food for their families. Ken Regal, executive director of Just Harvest, said although […]
Program expands access to fresh produce
The federal government aimed to help low-income shoppers avoid the stigma of welfare when it told states to replace food stamps with cards that resemble debit cards. But Emily Schmidlapp, […]
More Fresh Access
Just Harvest’s new Fresh Access program that allows people to shop at some Pittsburgh farmers markets using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits as well as debit/credit cards […]
More farmers markets will accept food stamps in Pittsburgh neighborhoods
A program allowing food stamp recipients to shop at city-sponsored farmers markets is expanding. Just Harvest started its Fresh Access program in May, allowing people to use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […]
Use your cards at the farmers markets
Would you like to buy some nice, fresh wooden tokens at the farmers market? You might if you don’t have any cash on you, and you want to use your […]
Gaining Access To Fresh Food
This summer marks the first that shoppers can use food stamps to purchase fresh produce at city farmers’ markets. In May, Just Harvest-in coordination with the Food Policy Council and […]
