Making Local Foods Accessible For All!

Friends of Lincoln Park Farmers Market, DBA Lincoln Park Farmers Market is organizing a fundraising campaign for the Lincoln Park Farmers Market, a seasonal market focusing on locally grown fruits and vegetables, locally made specialty foods as well as and locally made arts and crafts. Our mission is, “To educate the community about healthy, locally grown food, and promoting good health.” Our objective is Michigan grown/Michigan made by the farmer, vendor, and crafter. With the emphasis on organic foods, the advantage of a local farmer market is that one can talk to the farmer who raised the foods that they are to take home and eat.

We offer affordable vendor fees with a seasonal option; we also have affordable canopy rentals available. The funds we raise will directly go to cover our program and administrative costs so we can continue our critical work.

Lincoln Park Farmers Market, organized and coordinated by non-profit 501c3 organization Friends of Lincoln Park Farmers Market, has been in existence since 2007 and under Friends of Lincoln Park Farmers Market since 2012.

Last year Lincoln Park Farmers Market benefitted from a move to Mellus Park, located at 1661 Fort Street, one block north of Southfield Road, in Lincoln Park, Michigan. The move to "Mellus Park" was a game changer with many positive comments from both vendors and customers. The market is easily assessable for customers from Fort Street, Southfield Road as well as I-75 and I-94. There are over 59,000 households within three miles of the market. We reach over 4300 followers through our social media presence.

Our goal is to focus on healthy lifestyles to decrease/prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other chronic disease by:

Promoting increased fruit & vegetable consumption
Promote physical activity
Provide nutrition learning opportunities to children ages 5 -12 through our Power of Produce “POP” Club. (Virtual in 2020 and 2021)
Provide health, nutritional information through speakers, demonstrations. Handouts and recipes.

We accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), Double Up Food Bucks, WIC Project Fresh and Senior Market Fresh coupons, and Credit/Debit as well. We are the only Downriver farmers market that accepts all four food assistance programs.

Farmers markets promote healthy lifestyles through better food choices, supporting local farmers and entrepreneurs, keeping them in business and creating more jobs in our communities. Farmers markets keep our hard-working communities healthy and fed through the fresh fruits, vegetables, and local foods available.

Our Plan For 2023

Our goal with this event is to raise $5000 for Friends of Lincoln Park Farmers Market. Our customers are eating healthy locally grown produce in addition to local foods such as honey, baked goods, jams, teas etc. We are a unique market because our neighboring farmers markets do not offer the educational opportunities that we offer at the market. They also do not offer all four food assistance programs as we do.

Our social equity mission is serving the economically challenged persons of our community and region. The City of Lincoln Park is a majority Low-moderate income community where 53.74% of its population is low-moderate income by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development definition. Lincoln Park Farmers Market location straddles two Census Tracts with significant concentrations of low-moderate income persons. These include Census Tract 5770 which contains 4065 persons of which 67.89% are low-moderate income, and Census Tract 5771 which contains 2,920 persons of which 71.74% are low-moderate income. The source of this socio-economic data is the U. S. Census and ACS 2015.

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