The Fondy Food Center improves access to local, healthy food, year-round and across Milwaukee County through its farmers markets, farm project, and city-wide food access initiative. The Fondy Food Center (FFC) was started to support a historic market on Milwaukee’s Northside after a food security assessment identified the market as a key source of fresh produce in this food insecure neighborhood. Fondy Farmers Market was the first market in the state of Wisconsin to accept SNAP/EBT and is a nationally recognized leader in connecting with low income shoppers – in 2016, more than $67,000 in SNAP benefits were redeemed at the market, and FFC raised more than $50,000 to double up shoppers’ federal nutrition benefits for fruits and vegetables! Leveraging lessons learned at the Fondy Farmers Market, FFC is now leading a multi-sector coalition of farmers markets, healthcare organizations, and government agencies to connect more diverse and low-income people with more of Milwaukee area farmers markets. FFC now operates market year-round, and in more spaces, with the Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market and the Schlitz Park Farmers Market creating more ways to improve fresh, local food access for all Milwaukeeans while supporting small farmers. In 2010, after several of Fondy Farmers Market’s primarily Hmong refugee farmers dropped out of farming, FFC started the Fondy Farm Project. This was a direct response to learning that the small family farmers wanted to continue farming, and selling at the market, but did not have access to affordable, long-term leases on quality land. The Farm provides access, not only to land, but also to the resources, infrastructure, and support needed to operate a successful farm business. In 2016, the expanded to a second location and now serves more than twenty farm families. The Fondy Food center’s mission is to connect Greater Milwaukee to local, fresh food – from farm to market to table – so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.

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