Double Up Food Bucks/ SNAP

Double Up Food Bucks

Through the Double Up Food Bucks Program the Leavenworth Farmers Market offers an incentive for SNAP participants.

Double your SNAP dollars and buy more fresh fruits and vegetables with Double Up Food Bucks at the Leavenworth Farmers Market!

Double Up Food Bucks is a SNAP matching program that helps low-income families eat more healthy food and supports local farmers.

How it works

Bring your SNAP EBT Card to the farmers market office or info booth before you shop. Market staff are there to help.

Buy any SNAP-eligible foods at the market with your EBT Card dollars.

We’ll match every dollar you spend with FREE Double Up Food Bucks – up to $25, every market day. Use them right away or later on to buy locally grown fruits & vegetables.

Rules for $1 tokens

No change may be given
Sales tax is not charged
Purchases must be from the eligible food listed below

Eligible foods for $1 SNAP tokens

Breads and Cereals
Fruits and vegetables
Meats, fish and poultry
Dairy products
Honey
Seeds and plants which produce food for the household to eat

Items not eligible for $1 SNAP tokens

Nonfood items, including

Pet foods
Soaps
Household supplies
Vitamins and medicines

Foods eligible for $1 DUFB tokens

Fresh fruits and vegetables

The Double Up Food Bucks program is funded by a $2.9 million USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive grant and $2.9 million in matching funds from private foundations and local governments, for a total of $5.8 million. Over the next three years, coalition partners will expand Double Up to 68 farmers markets and 117 grocery stores in the Kansas City and St. Louis metro areas, eastern Kansas, and central and southwest Missouri. The Double Up Heartland Coalition is led by the Mid-America Regional Council; Cultivate Kansas City; Douglas County, Kansas; the East-West Gateway Council of Governments in St. Louis; and the Fair Food Network.

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