Double Up Food Bucks

High Quality, Local Food for All

Double Up Food Bucks is a healthy food incentive program that doubles value of federal nutrition benefits spent at farmers' markets, helping people buy local food while supporting our local farmers and economy.

It's a win-win-win on market day:

We are proud to partner with Fair Food Network to help grow a vibrant local food system and inform public policy to address hunger and nutrition while supporting a more sustainable food system.

How it works:

1. Bring your SNAP/EBT card, W.I.C. or Senior FMNP vouchers to a participating farmers' market

2. When you arrive, go to the manager booth to get your tokens

3. Spend your tokens with farmers throughout the market to buy delicious local food

(it's that simple!)

Click Here for answers to Frequently Asked Questions
about Double Up Food Bucks

A testimonial from a Double Up shopper:

“The Double Up program has a strong impact on my own personal life. Being a single mother, I use DUFB every week to be able to access organic and local food for my son and me. My son was born with multiple serious medical conditions, and I have noticed a huge impact on his health since moving to Boone and having access to DUFB, giving us the ability to access highly nutritious food we normally wouldn't have the privilege to afford.”

You can shop at farmers' markets year round!

King Street Market
Poplar Grove Connector (Near the Health Dept.)
Boone, NC
Tuesdays, 4p-7p | May-October
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High Country Food Hub
252 Poplar Grove Rd., Boone, NC
Order online Thursday-Monday | Pick up Wednesday | Year-round
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Watauga County Farmers' Market
591 Horn in the West Dr.
Boone, NC
Saturdays, 8a-12p | May-November
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Boone Winter Farmers' Market
252 Poplar Grove Rd.
Boone, NC
Saturdays, 8a-12p | December-April
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Did you know?

Double Up Food Bucks Relies
on Contributions from Caring Community Members

Show that you support providing good, honest food for all

The Double Up Food Bucks program relies on donations to match participants nutrition benefits and to spread the word about the program throughout the community.

A $100 donation could go towards:

$100 of fresh, local food for a family in need.
625 Double Up Food Bucks postcards that we can distribute through food box programs, health care clinics, schools, and more.
Paying a BRWIA staff member to facilitate the program across markets.

Become a Double Up Food Bucks Ambassador

Expand awareness.
Increase healthy, local food consumption for families utilizing SNAP.
Help create a more equitable local food system.

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Apply Today

Impact

Since 2017, we've doubled more than $45,000 of nutritional benefits which has been spent on High Country-grown food at Watauga County’s four farmers’ markets. In 2020 alone, we reached over 228 families and doubled more than 2017, 2018, and 2019 combined! Farm businesses also earned this much more in extra sales! Please help us make 2021 even more impactful by donating and/or spreading the word about the program to those who can use it!

Questions?

Contact BRWIA's Double Up Food Bucks Team