10/19/2024
MASSACHUSETTS FARMERS NEED YOUR HELP.
The Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) is facing budget cuts. The Program provides SNAP recipients with extra funds to buy fresh, local produce from participating farmer's markets and vendors very month. It boosts access to healthy food for families while supporting local farms and driving much-needed traffic to farmer's markets across Massachusetts.
Healthy farmer's markets are not just important for farmers, but also for the small businesses that set up with them.
If this funding is cut, many farms and farmer's markets could lose the vital support they need to stay afloat.
The HIP program helps farmers and farmers markets. It is a program that makes me proud to be from Massachusetts.
🌱 WE NEED YOUR HELP! Call or email your state reps and ask them to fully fund HIP! Let's protect local farms, farmers' markets, and families who rely on this amazing program.