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  • From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How One Farmers' Market is Handling Food Stamps
  • Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:27:25 -0500


On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:08 PM, TxBeeFarmer wrote:


On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:08 PM, TxBeeFarmer wrote:

I like the idea!!!

One question though, is there a fee for the vendor when the card is used. I
might get the furniture store next door to run the cards and issue tokens if
it doesn't cost him anything to do so.

Thanks
TxBeeFarmer
West Texas Zone 7b

Might not be legal. For one thing, the furniture store probably isn't eligible to use a food stamp card -- you're not allowed to buy furniture with one, after all. For another, it's probably not legal to take the cards for somebody else, with or without a token intervening. In the case Pat cited, the entire market seems to be signed up to take them as one entity; the tokens only function within the market entity.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Meadows" [. . .]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:43 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] How One Farmers' Market is Handling Food Stamps





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