The Master’s Table Farm Market is a pilot project of BRIDGES Healthy Cooking School creating a viable Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the USDA nutrition program recommendations and nutritional requirements for seniors.
This project utilizes the USDA’s recommendations of behavioral economics and social marketing techniques to increase both the purchasing and the consumption of local fruits and vegetables. This partnership of BRIDGES, local farmers, community senior centers and senior citizens creates an experimental distribution model supplying low-income senior consumers with local foods from area farmers.
The Master’s Table Farm Market enabled the local food movement in the smaller communities surrounding Danbury, CT to continue to grow and adapt to our consumers regardless of the negative fluctuations in our state and national economy.