SFMA is committed to providing equal access to fresh produce and local products. Check out the Food Access Programs we participate in below

All SFMA markets accept EBT/SNAP. Check-in at the Information Desk to swipe your EBT card in exchange for market tokens. These tokens don't expire and can be used at all three of our Farmers Markets. 

Click Here to see the USDA's info page "What can SNAP Buy". Also, your dollars are doubled with SNAP Market Match (see below).

The SNAP Market Match program is a dollar-for-dollar match that doubles your EBT/SNAP dollars in $1 increments. When you visit the market booth with your EBT/SNAP card, we’ll give you SNAP Market Match in $1 increments equal to the amount of market token dollars you redeem.

There is no limit on the amount you choose to match. Use SNAP Market Match to buy fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, mushrooms, fresh herbs, seeds and plants that produce food (for example, tomato seeds or tomato plants)

All SFMA Markets accept Fresh Bucks benefits. Customers will visit the Information Booth to scan their Fresh Bucks Card in exchange for Fresh Bucks dollars and shop for fresh, frozen, canned, and dried fruits and vegetables, herbs, and edible plant starts.

Find more information about the Fresh Bucks program Here. 

We participate in both SFMNP (Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program) and WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Program.

Participants use their cards directly at eligible vendor booths to purchase local, fresh and unprocessed fruits, vegetables and cut herbs. Senior FMNP can buy honey in addition to the items noted above. WIC participants can also use their WIC “Fruit & Vegetable Benefits” (also called “Cash Value Benefits”) at our markets.

Customer Service: 1-800-841-1410 Extension 2, Option 0 or Cascade.Support@doh.wa.gov 

Gleaning is the process of collecting excess fresh foods that would otherwise be going to waste.

In collaboration with Sustainable Ballard and FARMore WA, we support the administration and management of the gleaning program that collects donations of food and delivers it to the nearby Ballard Food Bank, thus supplying fresh, local and generally organic produce to those in need.

If you’d like to volunteer as a Gleaner, please email us at gleanballard@sfmamarkets.com.

Do you participate in the bicycle benefits program? We offer a $2 market token for everyone that has a bicycle benefit sticker.