Increased Access to Local Produce is Leading to Healthier Lives for SNAP Recipients [psmag.com]

Alicia Doktor 8/23/184:00 AM

A program in Colorado that allows federal food aid recipients like Tamara Anne to double the amount they spend on locally grown produce is transforming impoverished families' eating habits. Fittingly, the program is called Double Up Food Bucks.

"My teenager said to me recently: "Hey, mom, I want you to know I really like fruit more now," recounted Anne, as she plopped reddish-orange Palisade peaches into a cream canvas bag.

"With Double Up Food Bucks, we've been getting a few starters, and he's watching lettuce grow," she added, as she traversed a farmer's market in suburban Denver on a sunny July day. "It's so crazy. He will even clip it and eat it."

[For more on this story by JENNIFER OLDHAM, go to https://psmag.com/economics/ge...e-to-snap-recipients]

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