The Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (NYS-FMNP) operates through collaboration among the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Office for the Aging (SOFA), and Cornell University Cooperative Extension (Cornell).
The NYS FMNPs are designed to:
· Enhance health of eligible low-income, nutritionally at-risk
residents with fresh fruits and vegetables and nutrition
education,
· Promote use of farmers' markets by WIC clients and
low-income seniors,
· Support NY farmers who market their fresh produce through
farmers markets,
· Encourage expanded and diversified fruit and
vegetable production in NYS, and
· Promote the development of farmers' markets as a component
of sustainable, quality communities.
Cornell's FMNP goal is to strengthen local capacity, to address challenges and reinforce successes leading to strengthened local farmers' markets and enhanced food access and nutrition knowledge by low-income consumers.
View the participating WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Programs
Check out the new series of informational bulletins, Fresh Now...From New York Farms, from the Cornell Cooperative Extension. The website is designed to help consumers select fruits and vegetables from New York State.
Visit Cornell Cooperative Extension in New York City for simple, nutritious, and inexpensive recipes to use with ESNY, EFNEP or FMNP Nutrition and Health program participants.
* Nutrition and Health Program Recipe Collection
* "Rainbow of Vegetables" and Fruit Collection
* Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Recipe Collection
State guidance for county-based Cornell Cooperative Extension Association (CCE) FMNP engagement is provided through the Division of Nutritional Sciences under the leadership of Dr. Jennifer Wilkins, and CCE-FMNP State Coordinators, Steve Miller and Rosalind Cook.
Questions or comments can be directed via email to Rosalind Cook or Steve Miller
