Sunflower success 2011

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Sunny and bright, the garden sunflowers are a delight!

Veggie Plants for Food Stamps

Sharing this tip from Daniel via the NYC Community Garden Coalition:

It’s a little known fact that food stamps can be used to purchase seeds and food-producing plants.  It’s written into the federal law.  Hopefully soon that fact will be more widely known, and more widely acted upon.  Seeds and Plants, unlike any other item you’d acquire with food stamps, actually increase in value after purchase, no small matter when funds are limited.

Of course, farmers markets are probably the best place to purchase food-producing plants in this city.  And more and more farmers markets are accepting food stamps via mobile EBT readers.  Union Square Greenmarket just began accepting food stamps on September 1st.

For those of you who have purchased plants from Silver Heights Farm Nursery, you know they produce absolutely gorgeous and delicious produce.  This Wednesday (9/15) and Saturday (9/18) are their last week at the Union Square Greenmarket for the 2010 season, so if you’ve got food stamps, or know gardeners or potential gardeners who do, head on over.   (This is not a paid advertisement…and there are certainly a number of other growers who have superb plants who will be at markets past this week.)