Farmers Markets (Food Access)

Visiting farmers markets in DC is an excellent way to support local businesses and promote sustainable and responsible farming practices. Farmers markets also offer residents an opportunity to connect with farmers in their area and to learn more about where their food comes from and how it’s produced. Below is a list of organizations that either host farmers markets, are local urban farms that sell at farmers markets, organizations that advocate for DC farmers markets or programs that offer food assistance that can be used at markets. For the Washington Post interactive map of all the farmer markets in the area please follow this link.For the DC Greens Poster that lists farmers markets that accept food assistence programs follow this link (pdf).

Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture

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Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. Based on the historic grounds of Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria, VA, Arcadia manages four distinct program areas which include Arcadia Farm, Farm to School, Mobile Market, and Food Hub.

Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture - Specific Information on Farmers Markets

Arcadia Mobile Market

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Arcadia’s Mobile Markets are farm-stands-on-wheels that distribute local, sustainably produced food to underserved communities in the Washington, DC area.

Arcadia Mobile Market

City Blossoms

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City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.

City Blossoms

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Common Good City Farm

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Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.

Common Good City Farm

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Community Foodworks

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Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.

Community Foodworks

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D.C. Farmers’ Market Collaborative

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The D.C. Farmers Market Collaborative is co-convened today by D.C. Hunger Solutions and D.C. Greens and works on a variety of issues, including increasing fresh food access and partnering with city leaders and government agencies to support farmers’ markets in D.C.

D.C. Farmers’ Market Collaborative

DC Greens

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DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.

DC Greens

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DC Hunger Solutions

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DC Hunger Solutions seeks to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition, curb obesity, and increase the availability of healthy, affordable food in low-income areas. It maximizes participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP/food stamps, school meals, early childhood nutrition programs, WIC, and summer meals) through a combination of vigorous outreach, removal of obstacles to participation, and close work with social service agencies.

DC Hunger Solutions

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DC UrbanGreens, Inc.

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DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.

DC UrbanGreens, Inc.

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Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.

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Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.

Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.

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ECO City Farms

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ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.

ECO City Farms

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FRESHFARM Markets

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FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.

FRESHFARM Markets

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FVRx program (Food and Vegetable Description Program)

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In 2012, DC Greens launched a Fruit and Vegetable Prescription program in collaboration with Unity Health Care and Wholesome Wave. Since then, more than 200 at-risk DC residents have received prescriptions from their doctors for free farmers’ market produce. These prescriptions can be filled at participating “farmacies,” expanding access to affordable nutrition. With close tracking on both the health center and market side, the Prescription Program provides essential data on the value of nutrition-based health interventions.

FVRx program (Food and Vegetable Description Program)

Markets and More

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Markets & More, LLC is a a marketing and consulting company that runs farmers’ markets and consults on cookbooks, food-related businesses and food security. Our farmers’ markets are community-based, producer-only local markets that connect their communities with local farmers from our region, the Chesapeake Watershed.

Markets and More

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Owl’s Nest Farm CSA

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Owl’s Nest Farm grows unique, delicious, diverse vegetables on four acres in Upper Marlboro, MD, just twenty miles from Washington, DC. Managed cooperatively by farmer-friends Spencer Ellsworth, Genevieve Fulco and Liz Whitehurst, Owl’s Nest Farm uses organic practices to grow real food for our CSA members, farmer’s market customers, restaurants, and friends.

Owl’s Nest Farm CSA

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Produce Plus

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Produce Plus is a program funded in part by the DC Department of Health and administered by DC Greens where eligible DC residents can receive $10 worth of Produce Plus checks each time they visit a distributing DC farmers’ market.

Produce Plus

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SFMNP (Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program)

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The SFMNP provides fresh fruits and vegetables to senior citizens of the District of Columbia who are eligible for and participate in the CSFP/Grocery Plus. The program expands the awareness and use of farmers’ markets, and also supports and promotes the daily consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

SFMNP (Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program)

SFMNP (Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program) - Specific Information on Farmers Markets

Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network

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Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.

Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network

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The Riverside Center (WPP)

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Washington Parks & People (WPP) Riverside Center has become a hub of activity in the park, and it is now also home to DC’s first comprehensive community food hub. Riverside programming includes fitness and healthy cooking classes, in-season farm market, youth arts and dance classes, town hall meetings, films, forums, service learning, and park revitalization and urban forestry job training with our DC Green Corps. Riverside features a 2,000-square-foot assembly space, a brand new 1500-square-foot commercial kitchen and cafe, a bike repair station, and an indoor growing place.

The Riverside Center (WPP)

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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

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WIC is a program that provides the following services to pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children up to age 5:
– Nutrition counseling and education
– Breastfeeding resources and support
– Nutrient-rich foods (Foods provided by the program supply calcium, protein, iron, and Vitamins A, D, and C.)
– Immunization assessment and screening
– Referrals to health and social service providers
– For women and children over 1-year-old, WIC also provides fresh fruits and vegetables (May – November) through the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP/Food Stamps

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program. The Districts’ SNAP program helps low-income residents and families buy the food they need for good health. You can apply for benefits by completing a State application form. Benefits are provided on an electronic card that is used like an ATM card and accepted at most grocery stores and some farmers’ markets.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP/Food Stamps

USDA Farmers Market

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The USDA Farmers Market is the Department’s own “living laboratory” for farmers market operations across the country.

USDA Farmers Market

Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden

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The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.

Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden

Washington Parks and People

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Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.

Washington Parks and People

Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Farmers Markets

WIC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program

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The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) allows WIC participants to use their WIC Vegetables and Fruit Cash-Value Check (CVC) to buy fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from approved farmers’ market vendors.

WIC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program

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