The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program is funded by the USDA's Food & Nutrition Services and administered by the Ohio Department of Aging. Local support for the program is administered by Homegrown Benefits.

More information about the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) can be found here, along with a link to apply for the 2025 benefits.

Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program

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Using Your SFMNP Benefits at the Piqua Community Farmers Market:

Step 1 - Take a look around the market to see what you would like to purchase. You may use your card to purchase fruits, vegetables, fresh herbs, and honey.

Step 2 - Bring your SFMNP Card or Phone App to the information booth (located under the trees next to the statue). You will be asked how much money you would like to use, and you will scan the QR code on your card or in your phone app. Your purchase will need to be in whole dollars. When the transaction is authorized, you will be given paper ‘tokens’ to purchase the items you would like to buy. Qualifying seniors get $50 annually.

Step 3 - Take the token to the Market Vendor and purchase the items you would like. The paper tokens can be used like regular money, and they will expire at the end of the market season. Cash change will not be given by the vendors. If you have any questions, please stop by the Piqua Farmers Market information booth. Vendors that have items that are eligible to be purchased with SFMNP benefits will have a sign in their booth.

Using Your Ohio Direction Card

(SNAP/EBT) at the Piqua Community Farmers Market

Step 1
Take a look around the market to see what you would like to purchase. The same rules apply at the market that apply elsewhere - you may use your card to purchase fruits, vegetables, baked goods, jams, jellies, seasonings, and plants that grow food.

Step 2
Bring your Ohio Direction Card to the information booth (located under the trees next to the statue). You will be asked how much money you would like to use, and you will swipe your card and enter your PIN. (Your purchase will need to be in whole dollars.)

When the transaction is authorized, you will be given paper ‘tokens’ to purchase the items you would like to buy.

Step 3

Take the tokens to the Market Vendor and purchase the items you would like.

The paper tokens can be used like regular money and they will expire at the end of the market season. Cash change will not be given by the vendors.

If you have any questions please stop by the Piqua Farmers Market information booth.

Vendors that have items that are eligible to be purchased with EBT/SNAP benefits will have a sign in their booth.

Produce Perks are a benefit of the SNAP/EBT program, where you will get the Produce Perks "coins" matched to the SNAP/EBT tokens up to $25 per week.

You may find more information about Produce Perks here: About Us - Produce Perks Midwest

WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP)

The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is a dual-purpose program that benefits both WIC participants and farmers.

The Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is a coupon program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. The FMNP is supplementary to the WIC Program, which provides nutrition education and nutritious foods to pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to 5 years old. The FMNP operates annually June-October and provides coupons to WIC participants to purchase fresh, locally-grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from farmers, farmers’ markets, and farm stands.

Contact your WIC administrator to get coupons to use at the Piqua Farmers Market. Vendors that have items that are eligible to be purchased with WIC benefits will have a sign at their booth.

The Piqua Community Farmers Market accepts EBT/SNAP benefits, Produce Perks, WIC, and SFMFP coupons.

A list of the eligible foods that can be purchased with those benefits can be found HERE and viewed below.