Service Profile: FARMER'S MARKET
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FARMER'S MARKET
Offers a food growing program in conjunction with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. This is a food growing program that educates the public about the relationship between agriculture, the environment, the food supply, and hunger. There is a fee which enables people to receive weekly shares of vegetables that can be picked up at a distribution site in Washington, D.C. or Maryland. These fees cover the May - November growing season. The vegetables not going to shareholders are brought into the City to sell for profit at vegetable stands in low income areas to help low income people become entrepreneurial. Half of the 400 agricultural shares are allocated to low income individuals.
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Organization:
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK
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CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK
Organization Description:
Feeds those who suffer from hunger in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area by acquiring food and distributing it through a network of member agencies and feeding programs. Educates the community about the issues of hunger and nutrition.
NONPROFIT
1/15/1980
6833 HILL PARK DRIVE, LORTON, VA 22079-2063
Service Offered...
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Proof of Income
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Application
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Metropolitan DC Area
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Sliding Scale
No
None
Address:
4900 PUERTO RICO AVENUE NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20017-2063
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Metrobus, Metrorail
Fully Accessible
Staff On Duty
(202) 644-9800
W, 3pm - 8pm (during daylight savings time);W, 3pm - 6pm (after daylight savings time)
M - F, 8:30am - 5pm
Spanish
Unlimited
Food Cooperatives, Food Production
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