Anyone who is receiving assistance to purchase food can participate with any farmer’s market or grocery store that is participating. Pittsfield Township has been part of the program since 2015. Food access is so important to Pittsfield.” She added that the program “ties nicely with our mission to connect people in the community with healthy and wholesome foods. The program does not have a hard stop date,” Andrews said. … If there is a market that operates through the wintery, they could use it there. So, there are people who use the program through December. There are actually a number of vendors that we use that work over the winter, who produce things like salads and microgreens and we have vendors who have things like apples, potatoes, and squash hearty winter things. “We’ve actually started doing our online market year-round. This is a nationwide program run by the Fair Food Network, which uses multiple supporters to provide extra funding for anyone using food stamps at participating locations that effectively doubles the amount of purchasing power they have if they purchase Michigan-grown fruit and vegetables food options. Supervisor Mandy Grewal said that she asked Tanya Andrews to present an update to the Board on its Double Up Food Bucks participation last month before the Board voted unanimously to enter a new contract to continue the participation of the Pittsfield Farmer’s Market.
Pittsfield Township reaffirmed its nearly decade-long commitment to providing healthy food to its least well-off citizens at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees.
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