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How to Accept SNAP Payments: A Guide for Montana CSA Farms

This excellent resource from Montana's National Center for Appropriate Technology walks CSA farms through setting up SNAP/EBT. Though made for Montanans, much of its advice is applicable nationwide. Valuable for…
Getting Started | SNAP, EBT, and Nutrition Incentive Programs | Farm Stands, CSAs, and Mobile Markets | CSA
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Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics

This tool offers an expansive list of metrics that U.S. food system practitioners and food movement organizations can use to hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food…
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility | Evaluation and Reporting | Data collection and evaluation | Operations and policy | What to measure and track
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EBT Technology: Market Discovery Process

Your process in choosing a Third Party Processor (TPP, or sometimes referred to as a “Merchant Service Provider”) and device (whether it’s a tablet or a payment terminal) to process…
SNAP/EBT and Nutrition Incentives Technology | POS & E-commerce Options | Getting started— applying, equipment, etc
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How to Get a Senior Center to Tour Your Market

Senior Centers often organize farmers’ market tours to help seniors utilize their FMNP checks. If you can facilitate this, it’s a great way to ensure that seniors use their checks…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to do Outreach at Senior Centers

Senior Centers distribute FMNP checks to their members every summer and many seniors are EBT recipients as well. Doing a cooking demonstration or simply giving a short presentation is a…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to do Outreach at WIC Centers

Visiting a WIC Center and doing a cooking demonstration is a wonderful way to encourage WIC recipients to use their FMNP and WIC Vegetable & Fruit checks at farmers markets,…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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How to Use Schools to Promote Your Market

“Backpacking” refers to when a school sends each child home with a certain handout to give to their parents. Although many schools won’t allow outside organizations to backpack their flyers,…
Planning and budgeting | Messaging, Marketing, and Engagement
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