More than $2,500 of SNAP funds have been spent at the Bristol Farmers Market through Aug. 10, a recent post on the nonprofit organization’s Intagram reports.
“This not only put fresh, nutritional food in the kitchens of Bristol residents, it suppor tthe local vendors who sell SNAP-eligible products at the Bristol Farmers Market,” the posts states.
Products at the Bristol Farmers Market are produced within two and a half miles from its location at the 10 Main St. parking lot, according to a recent post on the market’s Facebook page earlier this month.
The funding has been made available from grants by End Hunger CT and Thomaston Saving Bank Foundation.
In addition, the market placed third among Connecticut’s favorite farmers market in the America’s Farmers Market Celebration state-wide contest sponsored by American Farmland Trust.
Bristol finished behind first place Coventry Farmers Market and second place Monroe Farmers Market and ahead of fourth place Putnam Saturday Farmers Market and fifth place Farmers Market at the Guilford Fairgrounds.
Each week in the summer and through early fall, the Bristol Farmers Market is held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the 10 Main St. parking lot.
Vendors at each week’s market include Better Baking by Beth, Continuum Distilling, Chicken Frosty, Gresczyk Farms, CBG Gurus, Amazing Love, Soothing Ways, Ridge Runner Soaps, the Ancient Flavors, Perkins Pure Maple Sugar House, Pure Goodness Bakery, Tonn’s Marketplace and Twin Pines Farm.
The venue features free musical entertainment, accepts Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Vouchers and WIC as well as Double Snap and EBT.
For more information, check the Facebook page by clicking here. For a link to Instagram, click here.
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