About Fresh Access Bucks
More fresh produce for families → better business for farmers → more dollars in local communities. We keep Florida healthy, full and strong.
Strengthening Florida’s Fresh Food System
More than 2.8 million Floridians annually use SNAP to help put food on the table, but still struggle to make ends meet.
FAB’s approach to addressing food access, affordability, and nutrition education aims to work with the entire food system to build healthy, resilient communities supported by robust local food systems.
FAB supports families
- Supports better nutrition, stretches families' food budgets and brings healthy foods within reach of all Floridians
FAB supports farmers
- Creates new markets and revenue streams for Florida farmers and producers
FAB supports communities
- Increases local food purchasing and strengthens community investment in local economies while building a more resilient food system –from farm to fork
Fresh Access Bucks is a program of Feeding Florida, which works to solve hunger throughout the state. FAB provides a dollar-for-dollar match for fresh, Florida-grown fruits and vegetables when SNAP-eligible foods are purchased.
Impact Since 2013
FAB redeemed for fruits and vegetables
in FAB and federal benefits (SNAP and FMNP)
economic benefit to Florida’s communities, benefiting small and local businesses, Florida farmers and families
Our Story: In Season Since 2013
Fresh Access Bucks launched in 2013 at three farmers markets in Gainesville. In 2015, FAB was one of eight recipients of the first large-scale USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Program (FINI) grant, authorized through the 2014 Farm Bill, and was awarded a second FINI grant in 2018 after joining Feeding Florida as a network program. Since then, FAB has grown to over 80 locations across Florida.
Spanning from Miami to the Panhandle, our network of farmers markets, farm stands, CSAs, mobile markets, and community grocery stores provide better access to nutrition foods in geographically and situationally diverse communities.
FAB envisions a future where all Floridians have access to fresh, affordable, Florida-grown produce, where Florida farmers thrive and all communities reap the benefits of an equitable and just food system.
Meet the FAB Team
Fresh Access Bucks is a program of Feeding Florida
Katie Delaney
FAB Director
Heather Henderson
FAB Assistant Director
Meghan Fiveash
FAB Communications Manager
Dehlia Albrecht
FAB Regional and Evaluation Coordinator
Carley Todd
FAB Regional Coordinator
Together, We are Feeding Florida
Fresh Access Bucks works to increase access to healthy, nutritious fruits and vegetables, which is at the core of Feeding Florida’s work to solve hunger.
Feeding Florida’s 9-member food banks and Network programs- FAB, Florida Nutrition Education and Farmers Feeding Florida- are innovating ways to help the families and individuals who face hunger. Through increased access to fresh, Florida-grown produce, proteins, and dairy; nutrition education; mobile markets that go into food deserts; prescription produce programs and more, the Feeding Florida Network is helping Florida’s families access food, create stability, and thrive.
Together, we are all Feeding Florida.
Strength in Partnership
Fresh Access Bucks is a program of Feeding Florida and brought to life with the support of national, state and community partners.
The Latest From FAB
A delicious recipe with your favorite summer veggies from Fresh for Florida.
Feeding Florida’s Fresh Access Bucks hosts their first Seeds to Success event.
