Farm Fresh Nutrition Access
AIM is proud to welcome CalFresh/EBT (food stamps)
at all of our Farmers Markets and the Rollin’ Root.
New to Cal Fresh?
To discover the food access programs that
AIM offers, select where you shop.
Access To Healthful Food
Farmers Markets
Please bring your EBT card to the Information booth, where we will swipe your card and give you silver EBT tokens, which can be used to make purchases from our farmers, ranchers, cheesemakers, and bakers.
The Rollin’ Root
Please bring your EBT card or Pandemic card to The Rollin’ Root where we will swipe your card when you checkout. EBT cardholders are eligible to receive 50% off their purchase of fruits and vegetables through Market Match (through Summer 2025).
What You Can and Cannot Buy with EBT
Stretch Your Food Dollars
Market Match
Market Match is California’s healthful food incentive program, which matches federal nutrition assistance benefits, like CalFresh and WIC, at farmers markets and other farm-direct sites. Shoppers can double their benefits value when they use CalFresh/EBT at AIM’s Farmers Markets. For example, when you swipe your EBT card for between $1-$15 in EBT tokens at the Information Booth, you will receive a one-to-one match up to $15 in Market Match purple tokens, which can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables.
Market Match is available at 300 sites, spanning 38 counties, that are run by over 50 community-based organizations and farmers market operators. Market Match is a program of the Ecology Center and is funded by the California Department of Food and Agriculture through the California Nutrition Incentive Program and by the USDA through the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program, as well as other funders.
WIC Program
Get Ready to Accept Electronic WIC and Senior Farmers Market Payments
The WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) are transitioning from paper checks to electronic benefits cards this year!
Current WIC recipients, visit WIC office to get new card with QR code.
How to use new card:
Find authorized farmers at market, they will have signage.
Present your card at checkout.
Employee will scan the QR code on your card with a phone app to process payment.
Enter PIN.
Senior Bonus Bucks
In partnership with Extra Food, AIM accepts Senior Bonus Bucks at the Rollin’ Root and the Thursday and Sunday Marin Civic Center Farmers Markets. Bonus Bucks are $10 coupons for free fruits and vegetables issued to qualifying older adults ages 60+ who participate in the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.
Bonus Bucks can be used to purchase fruits, vegetables, and raw honey
Bonus Bucks have an expiration date printed on the front, so please redeem them before they expire.
IMPORTANT: AIM Marin Markets and Rollin' Root stops can only accept Marin Senior Bonus Bucks, which list valid locations on the back. AIM does not accept San Francisco Senior Bonus Bucks, which can only be used at Heart of the City Farmers Market in Fulton Plaza.
Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program
The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) provides fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown produce, cut herbs, and raw honey through Certified Farmers' Markets to low-income seniors. Please visit the CDFA website to determine if you are eligible for benefits.
The SFMNP benefits will be provided on a Farmers’ Market Card. This card can be used ONLY at authorized FMNP markets. How to use the card:
Find authorized farmers at market, they will have signage.
Present your card at checkout.
Employee will scan the QR code on your card with a phone app to process payment.
Enter PIN.
SFMNP is a federally funded program administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Services Agency and in California, by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).
New to CalFresh?
CalFresh is California's food stamps (SNAP) program administered by the California Department of Social Services. Apply to get up to $204 a month per household member on an EBT card.