The sweet young employees at the downtown Nashville Farmers’s Market want you to know that your EBT/snap food stamp cards can be used at the downtown farmers market on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you buy food there, you can trade in your receipts for double your money! This makes eggs, meat, vegetables and fruit — often half the price of a supermarket.
Just go to the information booth nearest to Smiley’s Farm produce stand. Soon you will be able to buy mushrooms, chicory root and edible flowers!
Right now you can buy: honey, bread, eggs, maple syrup, jam, peaches, vegetables of all kinds, fruit in season, and meat of all kinds plus fish. If you like duck eggs, they are available if you order them ahead! If you are willing to spend a little more money, you can also get cheese and milk! It is such high quality that you will not need to eat as much as you normally would to get full. For instance, grass fed beef is super high in vitamins B, A, E and other antioxidants!
So don’t wait to get wealthy— you can eat like royalty right now and double the savings! And lower your calories!
History of Food Stamps
Food stamps were started to help low income people get adequate nutrition. Equally, they were instituted to help farmers get a fair price for their products. EBT is actually a part of what the government pays in farm subsidies. Only if you choose, they don’t have to go to giant corporate farms. Do you remember? (The corporate farms that forced out the small farmers, possibly your father or grandfather?)
You can look up more information on Wikipedia.
For now, you can proudly tell people that you are supporting small farmers in their effort to get good food into the community.