Good nutrition is essential for keeping us healthy and happy at any age. Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables supplies our bodies with the fiber, vitamins and minerals that our cells need to function. In 2019, 58.6% of Kansas adults consumed fruit one or more times per day and 80.1% of Kansas adults consumed vegetables one or more times per day.
The Senior Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) is a federal program that helps low-income seniors obtain fresh food from local farms, roadside stands and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs.
This program provides fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey from farmers’ markets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture programs to low-income seniors via checks that can be exchanged for eligible foods at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs.
For purposes of this program, low-income seniors are generally defined as individuals who are at least 60 years old and who have household incomes of not more than 185% of the Federal poverty income guidelines. KSFMNP Information Link
Eligibility
The Kansas Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition program qualifies eligible Kansas seniors who are:
- 60 years of age and meet income eligibility guidelines (see chart below) or
- 55 years of age and a member of an Indian Tribal Organization and meet income eligibility guidelines.
Benefits are distributed individually, meaning any others in your household also meeting the eligibility guidelines may apply for and receive their own benefits.
How to Apply
Benefits are given out on a first come, first serve basis. To complete an application, visit our office at 2910 SW Topeka Blvd. Benefits are distributed to eligible applicants between June 1 and September 30, 2025, or until benefits are gone, whichever happens first.
If you apply after September 15, 2025, or are told benefits are no longer available, you will be added to the waitlist and contacted if additional farmers market benefits become available.
If You Qualify
You will receive a booklet of ten (10), $5 coupons for a one-time annual benefit of $50 to purchase eligible foods from authorized farmers.
Proxy Form
Seniors may appoint someone else (Proxy) to pick up their coupons for them. The proxy form is for a senior who is unable to shop for themselves, due to disability or lack of transportation and must designate someone to assist them with using their KSFMNP benefits on their behalf.
A PROXY means an individual authorized by an eligible senior to act on the senior’s behalf, including receipt of KSFMNP coupons and use of KSFMNP coupons at authorized outlets, as long as the KSFMNP benefits are ultimately received by the eligible senior.
2025 KSFMNP Proxy Form