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EBT (food stamps) at Farmers Markets
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Sherie Blumenthal May 29.
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Written by request, and "in honor" of the late blight that hit a friends farm and many other gardens throughout Maine this sumer. Normally I'd do s...
I work with the Lewiston Farmers Market, now part of the Great Falls Farmers and Artisans Market of L/A and we have used a wireless EBT machine at the market for all vendors in a fashion that Jaime described below. We had one account that the mone...
That's great Jaime, and thanks for drawing out all the proper issues to consider! It all comes down to EBT needing to work with your existing merchant account, which in these times, can be wireless and work for the farmer to aid in sales.
I defin...
We processed EBT cards last year manually at the Portland Farmer's Market (as a single farm). When we returned home, we ran the transactions through on our Free landline machine provided by FNS. We were happy to be able to accept EBT cards, but it...
I am certainly no expert, but I have worked with e-commerce and credit cards for many years. What I've learned about EBT so far is that it does need the LAN line, and until they provide something different, that's it. Until you have a LAN line whe...
I'm on the Steering Committee for the Gardiner Farmers' Market and we are trying hard to get set up to accept EBT. The biggest hurdle is getting a landline set up at our location (The Commons in Gardiner) so we can get the free EBT equipment from ...
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- At 4:41am on August 30, 2009,
Long Meadow Farm said…
- Just wanted to pass this on - a friend of mine who played music with me at the Gardiner Farmers' Market last week put this song together after hearing my rant about Late Blight. He posted the lyrics on the page, too. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8UleIKvIA
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