Food Access

Providing the community access to local, fresh, nutritious food.

Part of our mission at the Canton Farmers Market is to promote wellness through fresh food. Listed below are links to programs that will allow shoppers to access more high quality, healthy food.

State and Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

• SNAP can help you expand your healthy food budget. For an explanation of SNAP benefits, to find out if you are eligible for SNAP benefits and/or apply for benefits visit: SNAP Benefits (formerly Food Stamps). 

• To find out what can and cannot be bought with SNAP benefits, visit: What Can SNAP Buy? | Food and Nutrition Service

• For additional information about SNAP and other programs that can help individuals and families buy healthy, nutritious food, visit the Mass.gov Food Assistance webpage. 

• We will be providing a SNAP Match Program this season from June 15-Oct 19, 2025 of up to $15 per day per SNAP/EBT card user as long as funding is available. See below for our SNAP Match Policy for implementing this program.

• Sun Bucks EBT 

  • • SUN Bucks is a new and permanent federal food benefit that helps low-income families with school-aged children buy groceries when schools are closed for the summer. It was previously called Summer EBT. 

    • Eligible families will receive one payment of $120 per child between July and September, to provide funding for food during the summer school break. The first issuance will be in the first week of July and then on a rolling basis thereafter. 

    • SUN Bucks benefits expire 122 days after being issued. Most eligible families do not need to apply, though children who are not automatically eligible can fill out an application. 

    • Unlike last year, SUN Bucks will not be issued on existing DTA EBT cards. Eligible families will be issued a new SUN Bucks card:

• Healthy Incentives Program (HIP)

  • For information on how to increase your SNAP benefits through the Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program (HIP), visit the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) webpage. Select CFM vendors accept HIP - next time you’re at the market, come find us and ask! 

• Massachusetts Farmers Market Nutrition Program

  • The Massachusetts Farmers Market Program gives seniors and families coupons to buy fresh fruits and vegetables at Farmers Markets. Visit the Farmers Market Nutrition Program webpage to learn more. 

Local Resources

• Thanks to community support, the Canton Helpline, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is able to confidentially assist thousands of residents annually. Specifically, we help to maintain basic necessities via our Food Pantry; emergency funding for utilities including heat and electricity; and our Holiday Helpers program. The Canton Helpline may be reached at cantonmahelpline@gmail.com  

• The goal of Fair Foods is to make a healthy diet of fresh fruits and vegetables affordable. They operate their unique $2 Bag Program at several local sites, including:

  • Stoughton YMCA (445 Central St.): every other Wednesday from 3:30 - 5:00 pm. 

  • Brockton Trinity Baptist Church (1367 Main St.): Alternate Thursdays 2:30-4:00 pm.

  • Quincy Manet Health Center (110 W. Squantum St.): Alternate Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 pm.

  • Visit the Fair Food Site List here.  

Participating Vendors

Farmer/Growers:

• Fairmount Fruit Farm (SNAP + Farmers Market Nutrition Coupons)

• Rosasharn Farm (SNAP + Farmers Market Nutrition Coupons)

• Stillman Quality Meats (SNAP)

• Tangerini’s Spring St. Farm (HIP, SNAP + Farmers Market Nutrition Coupons)

• Top Sun Farm (SNAP + Farmers Market Nutrition Coupons)

Specialty Food Producers:

• Bicki’s Bakery (SNAP)

• Blind Squirrel Sauces (SNAP)

• Caribe and Co (SNAP)

• Ellevate Cocktail and Mocktail Mix (SNAP)

• Emma's Way Gardens (SNAP)

• Hale Bone Broth (SNAP)

• Homestead Gluten-Free Bakery (SNAP)

• Hippy Pilgrim (SNAP)

• Jax Seafood (SNAP)

• Madhrasi (SNAP)

• Maple and Thyme (SNAP)

• More for Me Gluten-Free (SNAP)

• Mei Mei Dumplings (SNAP)

• Melt in Your Mouth (SNAP)

• Mind Body Snack (SNAP)

• Moylings (SNAP)

• Not Your Average Salsa (SNAP)

• PureniTea (SNAP)

• Rhed’s Hot Sauce (SNAP)

• Salt of the Earth Pickles (SNAP)

• Steel and Rye Bakery (SNAP)

• Sug Sug (SNAP)

• Swanski’s Bakeshop (SNAP)

• Sweet Spirit (SNAP)

• The Perfect Empanada (SNAP for frozen items only)

• What the Pickles (SNAP)

• Zayde’s Market/Kyle’s Power Balls (SNAP for take home items only)

CFM SNAP Match Policy

We’re pleased to offer a weekly matching benefit to EBT and SUN BUCKS card holders. At our Market Tent you can purchase SNAP tokens, and use them throughout the market for any SNAP-eligible foods. Each Sunday, when you purchase tokens, we will match them, up to $15, free, as long as funds are available. You can certainly use your EBT card to get more from your EBT balance, but we will only match up to $15 once per card, per week.

Here’s how it works:

• If you buy $10 worth of tokens with the funds in your SNAP account, we give you $10 in SNAP Match coupons free, for a total of $20 to use on SNAP eligible products.

• If you buy $15 worth of tokens with the funds in your SNAP account, we give you $15 in SNAP Match coupons free, for a total of $30 to use on SNAP eligible products.

• if you buy $20 worth of tokens with the funds from your SNAP account, we give you $15 in SNAP Match coupons free, for a total of $35 to use on SNAP eligible products.

SNAP tokens do not expire. If you don’t use them all the day you purchase them, you can bring them back another week and spend them. If you would like to return some or all of the tokens you purchased, please note the following rules:

• Refunds will only be made on the same day the tokens were purchased.

• Refunds will require a receipt.

• Refunds will only be made back onto your EBT card. No cash or credit given.

• Refunds will be made at full value if your token purchase was NOT matched through our SNAP match program. 

Example: If we took $15 off your EBT card and gave you $15 in tokens and no MATCH coupons, your purchase was NOT matched. If you want to return any or all of the $15 in tokens, we will refund the same amount to your EBT card.

• No refunds on SNAP match. If your SNAP token purchase was matched, you must return an equal value of SNAP match coupons in order to get a refund.

Example: If we took $15 off your EBT card and gave you $15 in tokens and $15 in MATCH coupons , your SNAP token purchase was matched. If you want to return $15, we’ll refund $7 back on your EBT card and accept $7 in match tokens back because only $7 was from your EBT card and the other $7 was matched.

• Spend your match coupons evenly with your tokens.

Example: If you have $10 in SNAP tokens and $10 in MATCH coupons, and want to buy something for $4, use 2 of your $1 SNAP tokens and 2 of your $1 Match coupons.  

SNAP MATCH coupons DO expire at the end of the season, because they are tied to a specific funding source we got just for this season. 

• They do not have to be used the day you get them, you can save them for another day, but they just need to be used by 10/19/2025.

• No cash or credit will be given for SNAP Match coupons.