Douglasville Farmers’ Market: Don’t make a special trip

Starting in June and running through the end of September every Thursday morning, you can find the Douglasville WIC Market, which is a small farmers’ market of locally grown fruits and vegetables, in the Douglasville Health Center parking lot located next to the library on Selman Drive. 

Several years ago, when the Douglasville WIC Market first started up, I made a point to drive over to see what was there and I was disappointed to find just a few farmers selling produce out of the backs of their cars.  I expected the market to have grown somewhat from the time I first visited it.  But this morning when I made a special trip to the market, I found that things have not changed much from my initial trip there several years ago:

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I walked around a little and saw some squash, tomatoes, a few peaches, and watermelons.

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If you get a hankering for fresh, locally grown produce and happen to be in the neighborhood on a Thursday morning, drop by and see what's there, but I wouldn’t recommend making a special trip.

What is a WIC Market?

A farmers market that is designated as a WIC market is authorized to accept FMNP (Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program) coupons from eligible WIC participants.

“The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) is associated with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, popularly known as WIC.  The WIC Program provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education at no cost to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding post-partum women, and to infants and children up to 5 years of age, who are found to be at nutritional risk.

The FMNP was established by Congress in 1992, to provide fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables to WIC participants, and to expand the awareness, use of and sales at farmers’ markets.” (1)

Information

Douglasville WIC Market
6770 Selman Drive
Douglasville, GA 30134
Phone: 678-504-1056
Open: Thursday mornings 9am until noon (June – September)

(1) WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program

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Posted by Julie at July 10, 2008
Categories: Weekly Events
 
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  • July 17, 2008 Free Polazzo wrote:
    Thanks, Julie, for saving me a trip to the Farmer's Market. I had been wanting to go check it out but Thursday AM always seems I'm tied up.

    Sorry it wasn't worth going. Did anyone say why the pickings are so paltry?
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