{"id":27950,"date":"2024-01-23T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=27950"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:38:22","slug":"statewide-trainings-scheduled-for-farmers-market-nutrition-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2024\/01\/23\/statewide-trainings-scheduled-for-farmers-market-nutrition-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Trainings Scheduled for Farmers Market Nutrition Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/Qa_I4VDkBL3fB_YhJx7aKDHWo3nZXpjLVSHQXyFesZVmLJGfwQElsfkxFmF_BlqTUb_UCbb5FbXNyLaGDs99E4baaCUnTxTdclgpyksZb4Tj9wB2rT9fcD5mG2ylbnkShV8BiNvvlCiRQ1_Cex9L2Zs\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\"><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD (January 23, 2024)<\/strong> \u2013 The <strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/strong> today announced it will host its first round of trainings throughout the state for the <strong>Farmers Market Nutrition Program<\/strong>. The program provides fresh, unprepared, locally-grown fruits and vegetables to WIC and Senior participants and expands the awareness, use, and sales of such products at farmers markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\">The training will be approximately two hours and be offered in nine counties. Attendees will leave the training with a three-year authorization for the Farmers Market Nutrition Program, as well as authorization to accept the electronic <strong>WIC Fruit and Vegetable Benefit (eWIC FVB)<\/strong> and marketing resources from SNAP-ed. Accepting Farmers Market Nutrition Program and eWIC FVBs at farmers markets increases opportunities for participants in the programs to spend their benefits on local produce, and for farmers to see increased revenue from these increased monthly benefits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\">Farmers who are new to the program, are due for reauthorization, market managers, and local agriculture professionals are encouraged to attend. Training specifically in the electronic Farmers Market Nutrition Program will be offered at a later date. Additional training will be offered throughout the year. Interested farmers can apply at any time to participate and become authorized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\">To view the training dates and to sign up, interested participants may register <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.constantcontactpages.com\/ev\/reg\/628pjrv\">here<\/a>. A minimum of five participants must register in order to confirm any in-person training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\">For questions, please reach out to Farmers Market Nutrition Program Coordinator Sara Servin at sara.servin@maryland.gov<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\"># # #\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif\">Follow us on Instagram or Twitter\/X\u00a0 @mdsbest or Facebook @MdsBestAg<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD (January 23, 2024) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture today announced it will host its first round of trainings throughout the state for the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The program provides fresh, unprepared, locally-grown fruits and vegetables to WIC and Senior participants and expands the awareness, use, and sales of such products at<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2024\/01\/23\/statewide-trainings-scheduled-for-farmers-market-nutrition-program\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27952,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions\/27952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}