Farmers' market vouchers for WIC clients

MILFORD — Maternal and Family Health Services announced that the agency’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Centers are distributing farmers’ market vouchers to WIC participants. The Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) helps families with nutritional needs buy fresh fruits and vegetables from Pennsylvania farmers. This helps ensure good health for mothers and children and helps support community farmers’ markets. FMNP provides qualifying WIC participants with $20 in vouchers to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets between June 1 and Nov. 30. Pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, and children between the ages of 2 and 5 years old are eligible. The agency offers the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program; Family Planning Program; Healthy Beginnings Plus Prenatal Program; the Nurse-Family Partnership Program and the HealthyWoman Cancer Screening Program in a 16 county area of Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.mfhs.org, or call 1-800-367-6347.