Description: Find the Market Info booth. Staff can swipe your EBT card and exchange your benefits for tokens which can be spent at vendor booths at the farmers' market.All NCGA markets* offer a Market Match, which doubles up to the first $15 spent at each market. This match is automatically applied when you exchange your benefits. The Market Match is also issued as tokens that can be spent at vendor booths.Market Match is a program of the Ecology Center and is funded in part through the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.Each token is worth $1. EBT tokens are copper (older wooden EBT tokens have a green design) and can be spent on any food EXCEPT hot, ready to eat food. This includes fruits and veggies, plants or seeds that produce food, meat, dairy, eggs, bakery items, hot sauce, jams and jellies, and more. Market Match tokens are silver (older wooden MM tokens have a blue design) and can only be used to buy fruits and veggies, or plants that produce food.(*all markets offer the Market Match except for Shelter Cove)
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