WIC participants can receive vouchers for farmers markets

Maternal and Family Health Services announced that the agency’s WIC Nutrition Centers are distributing farmers market vouchers to WIC participants. The Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program helps families with nutritional needs buy fresh fruits and vegetables from Pennsylvania farmers to help ensure good health for mothers and children and support community farmers’ markets.

The program provides qualifying WIC participants with $20 in vouchers to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets between June 1 and Nov. 30. Pregnant, breast-feeding and postpartum women, and children between the ages of 1 and 5 years old are eligible.

WIC nutrition staff distribute the vouchers to WIC participants along with nutrition education emphasizing the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables and a list of participating farmers’ markets in the area.

For more information or to apply for WIC, visit www.mfhs.org or call 800-367-6347.