Summertime and the veggies come easy. Hoodland Farmers Market is making fresh produce more affordable for local low-income residents thanks to the Double Up Food Bucks Oregon program.
Use your Oregon Trail SNAP card to buy fruits and vegetables at the farmers market and you’ll receive matching dollars through vouchers up to $20 a day. In other words, a $20 purchase will give you $20 more to fill your bags with produce.

“A lot of people don’t have access to healthy food,” Hoodland Farmers Market Director Kate Brauner said. “The closest affordable place they can go is 20 minutes away, which requires a car and gas or the bus.”
Brauner says Double Up Food Bucks makes healthy food accessible and affordable to low-income families in the Welches area.

“It’s a really cool program that helps benefit the local community,” she said. “The farmers market is all about creating a healthy community so anything we do to provide that is super exciting.”
Established in 2018, The Hoodland Farmers Market is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 21 at the Church On The Mountain, 68211 U.S. Hwy. 26, in Welches.

In addition to produce grown by small local family farms, the market features live musicians and artists. Brauner says the market is always looking for volunteers, vendors and musicians. For more information, go to hoodlandfarmersmarket.org.