{"id":1847,"date":"2016-08-04T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farmwholesaleag.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:46:16","slug":"snap-and-csa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adapt8.us\/blog\/snap-and-csa\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP beneficiaries approved for CSA subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The very thing that makes the community supported agriculture (CSA)\u00a0model a boon for farmers\u2014customers pay for the whole season up front, enabling growers to purchase seeds, tools, and other supplies\u2014has rendered CSA programs inaccessible to many low-income Americans, who typically don\u2019t have several hundred dollars to spend all at once. But thanks to new language in last year\u2019s Farm Bill, things are changing. Before the passage of the 2014 bill, farmers were able to accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, but USDA regulations required that payments be credited weekly, at the point of pickup. Not only did that rob farmers of early-season buying power; it also cost them hours spent processing the transactions each week (SNAP works on an electronic debit system).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Surprisingly, CSAs rarely accepted SNAP benefits until 2011, when Bryan Allan of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/zengerfarm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Zenger Farm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">, a nonprofit educational center in Portland, Oregon, spearheaded a pilot CSA-SNAP program and developed online tutorials and a print manual to help other growers navigate the red tape involved in becoming certified to accept the benefits. \u201cEveryone deserves access to fresh, healthy food, regardless of their income level,\u201d says Allan, who advocated for the latest Farm Bill. And America\u2019s family farms deserve all the customers they can get: If just 1 percent of the $74 billion in food stamps spent annually was redirected to CSA farms, the people with their hands in the dirt would harvest $740 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2016\/01\/csa-snap-benefits\/\">https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2016\/01\/csa-snap-benefits\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very thing that makes the community supported agriculture (CSA)\u00a0model a boon for farmers\u2014customers pay for the whole season up front, enabling growers to purchase seeds, tools, and other supplies\u2014has rendered CSA programs inaccessible to many low-income Americans, who typically don\u2019t have several hundred dollars to spend all at once. 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