I just read a great new article in the NY Times about the importance of nutrition in health--for doctors and patients. Link here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/dining/22doctors.html?_r=2 I also recently read that doctors are providing farmers market tokens as part of food stamp packages (through the SNAP program) as an incentive to get their patients to purchase more fresh, local food.
I was wondering if anyone know whether this goes on in Missoula? I've heard it does but does anyone have stats--for example can you get all of the food stamps converted into farmer's market credits? What percentage of people receiving benefits actually take advantage of this?
A friend told me that you used to be able to use food stamps at the Good Food Store, but not any longer. Is this true?