When more people can eat local foods, everyone benefits.

Your donation to the Green for Greens fund doubles the food budget of our neighbors who choose to spend their SNAP benefits (formerly known as food stamps) at The Corner Farmers Market. Families have more food to eat. And those dollars, both from SNAP and matched with your donation, all go on to pay the farmers who feed us all.

The Green for Green fund allows us to match up to $50 of SNAP benefits for a family each week.

Our Green for Greens program, in only 8 years, has invested almost a half million dollars ($484,258) into strengthening our local food system. 2025 broke all kinds of records. Almost a quarter of that total investment came in 2025 alone ($119,310). We far surpassed even the high water marks of the COVID pandemic.

With uncertainty surrounding SNAP programming at the federal level, we remain committed to making sure our neighbors can access fresh food from the market. In 2025 we pivoted quickly to feed 400 new families when the longest government shutdown in history put the breaks on SNAP benefit dispersal in the weeks before Thanksgiving. Our farmers were thrilled to generate four months of sales in just three markets.

Many farmers markets have SNAP matching programs - because they work. Ours is the largest program in North Carolina, thanks to our committed community and donors like you.

Matching SNAP isn't just charity. It directly builds a local food system we can all count on.

Growing Green for Greens: Matching SNAP benefits