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About the Food Stamp/ QUEST Pilot Project

Evidence

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Current Happenings

Food Policy Contact

For more information or to join the Alaska Food Policy Council contact:

Diane Peck
Alaska DHSS
Division of Public Health
(907) 269-8447

 

Food Policy Council

Farmers' Market -
Food Stamp/QUEST Pilot Project

Image of an Alaska QUEST Food Stamp Electronic Benefit Card

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health has partnered with the Division of Agriculture, the Division of Public Assistance and the UAF Cooperative Extension Service to pilot test a farmers’ market – Quest (Food Stamp) project in two markets (Homer Farmers’ Market and the Spenard Farmers’ Market in Anchorage) in 2011. The purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of implementing the use of Food Stamp Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (known as “Quest” cards in Alaska) at farmers’ markets, thereby making healthy, local products more accessible to low income Alaskans and increasing overall farmers’ market sales.

Prior to this project, there were no farmers’ markets in Alaska accepting Food Stamps.

For more information about Quest, visit www.akquest.alaska.gov or call 1-888-620-1111.

For more information, contact:
Diane Peck, MPH, RD
Image of fresh from the garden/farm carrots, broccoli, and potatoes.

 

 

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