Choose Fresh - EBT at the Farmers Market

Choose Fresh!

Use your EBT card at the Farmers Market and buy the best foods produced right here in Central Wisconsin.

We are happy to provide a wireless EBT machine at several area markets that enables FoodShare participants to purchase foods from their local producers. At the market, you'll find the season's best bounty of fruits, flowers, meats, vegetables, and other specialty products. It is also a great community gathering space and place to meet your farmer and learn how your food is produced. Purchasing locally grown, seasonal foods benefits the economy, environment, and our very well-being. So this year, taste the seasons, develop a relationship with your area producers, and take part in supporting yourself, our community, our farmers, and our region.

Here's how:

Farmshed has a tent at the market with signage about EBT, information about local foods, resources about growing, preserving, and cooking food, and a schedule of workshops in the area demonstrating these topics.

The tent has a wireless card reader that allows you to swipe your FoodShare card. After requesting a specific amount of funds from your account, a volunteer will give you $1 tokens to use with accepting vendors.

Look for vendors who have an EBT sign posted on their tent.

You can exchange tokens with those vendors for eligible food items.

Extra tokens can be brought back to the tent for refund or kept for use at the market all season long.

Items you CAN purchase:

Vegetables

Fruit

Dairy

Meat, poulty, fish, and eggs

Bread, cereals, and packaged pastries

Jam, syrups, oils, and honey

Coffee beans, rice, grains, and dried beans

Pickled items

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Items you CANNOT purchase: