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The following projects were awarded grants in Fiscal Year 2006:
- Arizona: $19,421 to the Natwani Coalition of Kykotsmovi, Ariz., to help sustain a farmers market on the Hopi reservation through innovative cooperative transportation of produce that will improve access and availability for market patrons.
- Arkansas: $52,918 to the City of Hot Springs, Ark., to encourage greater diversity of both vendors and customers at the local farmers market, address infrastructure shortcomings that impede vendor and consumer participation in the market, and to improve the access of lower-income consumers to fresh food through an increased focus on WIC/Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupon redemption, food stamp redemption, and nutritional education programs.
- California: $70,000 to the Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association of Concord, Calif., to test various promotional strategies and to determine which combinations of community outreach and media use are the most cost-effective in encouraging consumers to patronize local farmers markets.
- California: $41,800 to the Davis Farmers Market Foundation of Davis, Calif., to create new marketing opportunities for the current vendors at the Davis Farmers Market by developing an innovative partnership with the Davis Joint Unified School District.
- Colorado: $57,930 to the Colorado Farmers Market Association of Boulder, Colo., to assist farmers markets in Colorado in implementing electronic benefits transfers (EBT) that will aid in increasing food stamp redemptions at local farmers markets, thus allowing greater consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables by lower-income consumers.
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