SNAP Authorized Markets who Double SNAP Dollars!
| Farmers Market | Location | Time |
| Tanana Valley Farmers Market | 2600 College Rd, Fairbanks, AK 99709 | Wednesday 11AM-4PMSaturday 9AM-4PM |
| Matanuska Community Farmers Market | 713 S Denali St, Palmer, AK 99645 | Wednesday 4PM – 7PM |
| Calypso Farm + South Side Community Farmers Market | 24th Avenue & Rickert Street, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Alaska | Tuesday 4PM – 6:30PM |
| Homer Farmers Market | 1155 Ocean Dr, Homer, AK 99603 | Wednesday 2PM – 5PM Saturday 10AM – 3PM |
| Haines Farmers Market | 296 W Fair Dr, Haines, AK, United States, Alaska | Saturday 10AM – 1PM |
| Grow North Farm | 3601 Mountain View Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508 | Thursday 4PM – 7PM |
| E&A Produce Market | 101 Airport Rd, Iliamna, AK 99606 | Wednesday/Thursday 3:30PM – 6:30 PM |
| Grace Acres Farm | 52280 running water Ave , Kasilof, AK, United States, Alaska | Monday2:00 PM – 10:00 PMTuesday2:00 PM – 6:00 PMWednesday11:00 AM – 6:00 PMThursday2:00 PM – 10:00 PMFriday2:00 PM – 10:00 PMSaturday10:00 AM – 2:00 PM5:00 PM – 11:00 PMSunday3:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Feirme Bear Don | 12387 S Russian Creek Road Kodiak AK 99615 |
Food Access at Farmers Markets
SNAP/EBT
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the nation’s largest nutritional assistance program. A few markets across Alaska accept SNAP.
At these markets, shoppers visit the market information booth and swipe their EBT card. The market then provides tokens/voucher for the amount swiped on the card. The shopper then spends the tokens with market vendors on SNAP eligible items(fruits, vegetables, baked goods, seeds, meat, jams & jellies, bread, fish, vegetable starts, syrup and honey, dairy, and poultry.)
Want to become a SNAP authorized market? Watch AFMA’s SNAP Authorization webinar here!
SNAP Authorized Markets who Double SNAP Dollars!
- Homer Farmers Market
- Tanana Valley Farmers Market
- Haines Farmers Market
- Matanuska Community Farmers Market
- Southside Community Market
- E&A Produce Market
- Grown North Farm
- Kodiak Bounty Farm @Kodiak Farmers Market
Need Food Assistance apply for SNAP benefits here. If you are encountering severly delayed SNAP Application approval find support here.
WIC & Senior Farmer Market Nutrition Program
The Women and Infant Children (WIC) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) provides vouchers for low-income seniors, pregnant women, and women with young children to purchase fresh, healthy food at farmers markets. These programs are federally funded with the goal of increasing the awareness, use of, and sales at local farmers’ markets as well as provide fresh, unprepared, Alaska grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs to low income seniors and WIC participants.
Interested in applying to accept Farmers Market Nutrition Vouchers? Click here NOTE application closes MAY 31st!
AFMA’s Market Match
SNAP authorized markets have the ability to participate in AFMA’s Market Match program. This program provides markets with resources and funds to double the SNAP EBT dollars of Families and individuals enrolled. Learn more below or apply here!
How AFMA Market Match Works
SNAP Authorized Markets and Farm Stands can receive funding to provide customers who use SNAP/EBT benefits with a $1 for $1 match for up to $40, giving them up to $80 to spend on qualifying produce! AFMA Market Match is executed by the Farmers Market/Farm Stand, administered by Alaska Farmers Market Association, and funded by the State’s Designated Legislative Grant Program.
If you are a SNAP authorized market or farm stand with a valid FNS you can Apply to recieve funds to participate in the Market Match program!
How it works
If you are a SNAP/EBT Authorized Market/Farm Stand
- Fill out AFMA’s Market Match Application here
- Become Familiar with the Market Match Reporting Documents and Steps for reimbursement
- Start Matching!
- SNAP customers make a purchase with their Quest card at a designated booth. Upon purchase the market will provide the customer with the amount of scrip they purchased and can match up to $40
- For Example: A customer bought $10 on their Quest card. They receive $10 in market scrip and an additional $10 in market match
- Market staff record the amount purchased with Quest card and the amount matched for each transaction
- Markets Reimburse Vendors(as agreed upon between market and vendor)
- Market reports Matching numbers and invoicing to AFMA on a monthly basis
- AFMA will reimburse Market Dollars Matched on a Monthly Basis
What Does AFMA Provide?
- Program specifications and guidelines
- Market Match Reimbursement
- Stipend for Market/EBT coordinator(your point person for SNAP at the market)
- Stipend for some supplies and promotional materials
- Technical Assistance and program support as needed
If you are SNAP/EBT Recipient:
- Go to a participating market’s information booth and tell them you’d like SNAP Market Match
- Swipe your EBT card for the amount you want to spend
- You will receive that amount in EBT tokens and the same amount in SNAP Market Match dollars. Markets match $40 or more per day, check with your local market for their daily match amount.
- Shop for:
- Fresh vegetables
- Fresh fruits
- Mushrooms
- Fresh herbs
- Fish
- Meat/Poultry
- Seeds and plants that produce food (for example, tomato seeds or tomato plants)
- Packaged Foods like breads, jams, honey
Participating Markets!
Questions?
To find out more about market match and SNAP at farmers markets email foodaccess@alaskafarmersmarkets.org
Food Equity and Justice
Native Food Sovereignty Projects
Learn about Native groups in Alaska focused on agriculture, food security, and regenerative cycles that can benefit all.
Gardens in the Arctic is a step towards our goal of bringing food security and self sustainability to the people of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. Anaktuvuk Pass is an Inupiaq community in the Brooks Range on the North Slope. It is located approximately 90 miles north of the arctic circle and about 30 miles north of the tree line and has a population of around 335 people. We are at 2,239 feet above sea level and are grow zone 2b. Our village is not on a road system, and any and all items not created here or gathered locally is flown in on small planes
Through this program, TTCD addresses our strategic direction to improve food security through community agriculture. Since 2012, Tyonek Tribal Conservation District has worked with the Native Village of Tyonek to develop an agricultural program aimed at enhancing food security and providing fresh organic vegetables to community members.
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Alaska is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that works on behalf of the Inupiat of the North Slope, Northwest and Bering Straits Regions; St. Lawrence Island Yupik; and the Central Yup’ik and Cup’ik of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Region in Southwest Alaska. Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska is a national member of ICC International.