Market News August 14, 2025

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WFM Market News - August 14, 2025

Hello Market Friends,


We begin the second half of the 2025 season with wonderful news!  Beginning September 1st, 2025, HIP will be back to $40/60/80 benefit levels depending on household size! The Governor signed the supplemental budget into law last week, and we are grateful for DTA’s swift action on HIP- thank you Gov. Healey!


Please help support the Market by purchasing reusable grocery bags at Stop & Shop on Main St- for every bag sold in the month of August, WFM receives $1. Using those bags at the Market will then help reduce the amount of single-use plastics in our community.


See you Thursday!


The WFM Management Team

Plum Island Jams

Specialty jams and jellies. Uniquely delicious! Delicious at breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks and desserts! All natural. No added flavors or colors. Naturally gluten free and vegan. We try to make delicious flavors that you cant find in the grocery store. We want to add excitement to your table!

Crescent City

Need a to cool off this week? Crescent City is serving up snowballs and other delicious New Orleans treats!

Tablefull of assorted leafy green vegetables under a sign advertising Growing with Minerals

Growing With Minerals

All volunteer urban farm working to restore the soil biology and grow healthy vegetables and herbs with all the flavor and nutrition God and nature intended.

Wicker Woman Herbals

One woman run. Herbal products created with love and intention using locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

Bucket List Maple Syrup

We began making maple syrup with our children. We started sugaring with a flat pan on cinder blocks. From that primative beginning, we eventually built a sugar house and installed an evaperator. At first we collected sap in metal buckets and 5 gallon plastic pails. We still use these, but now most of our sap flows downhill in a pipeline into tanks. We are members of the Mass Maple Producers Association.

Music at the Market

A women with chin length dark brown hair is holding an acoustic guitar. She is smiling and wearing a white blouse covered in blue and green tropical leaves.

Agma Sweeney

Noon - 2:30PM

Ed Bentley

2:30PM - 5:00PM

Healthy Incentives Program logo.

SNAP customers, stop by the SNAP Tent and we’ll explain how to turn $15 on your SNAP card into $30 to spend on eligible items with WFM’s weekly SNAP match!

 

If you live in MA and have SNAP, then you have HIP, which gives you $40, $60 or $80 a month put back instantly on your SNAP card when you use SNAP to buy local produce. Ask us about HIP at the SNAP Tent.

We thank the generous sponsors of our 2025 season

peoples bank logo
Farm Credit East logo
Westfield Gas and Electric Whip City Fiber Logo
Bank ESB logo

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