[Market-farming] Food and Nutrition Program at market

Brigette Leach avalonfarmshomegrown at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 14 06:01:02 EDT 2008


We just made up cards, about the size of a business card, on heavy card stock. Each card is worth $1. This worked for us, but we are a small market seeing less than $1000 in Bridge Card transactions. I would think larger markets and/or heavier volume might need something different.

Brigette Leach
Avalon Farms Homegrown
Share of the Farm
www.avalonfarmshomegrown.net

-----Original Message-----
>From: Home Grown Kansas! <hgkansas at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Apr 13, 2008 10:04 PM
>To: Market Farming <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [Market-farming] Food and Nutrition Program at market
>
>
>I'm interested in seeing what form of exchange anyone
>uses for the Food and Nutrition Program at farmers
>markets where there is only one ebt machine rather
>than each vendor having his own machine.  For example
>there is a market here that uses wooden "nickels" as
>the form of exchange but they are rather costly to
>produce.  I'm looking for something less costly that
>can be used.  Pat, Wichita
>> 
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Brigette 

Brigette L Leach
Avalon Farms
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Climax MI 49034

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