We’re hiring: Market Events Coordinator Title: Market Events Coordinator Reports to: Director of Programs Grade: 1099 Contractor Location: Hybrid, with in-state travel required Summary: Produce Perks Midwest (PPM) seeks a Contractor to support activities related to public events held at select Ohio farmers’ markets. The Contractor will represent PPM at market events to engage Temporary [...]

Check out our 2023 Program Impact Report Read Here! Learn more about Produce Perks impacts through the years: 2022 impacts 2021 Impacts 2020 Impacts 2019 Impacts 2018 Impacts 2017 Impacts [...]

Produce Perks Midwest and Green Umbrella's Food Policy Council are pleased to release a new report that explores the process of digitizing nutrition incentives at farmers’ markets. The report, “An Exploration of Farmers’ Market Nutrition Programs” assesses Ohio’s varying nutrition incentive programs, including Produce Perks and Produce Prescription (PRx) programming, WIC Farmers Market Nutrition [...]

This summer, we've celebrated three years of partnership with Mustard Seed Farms in Cincinnati, OH. Through work with this farm, Produce Perks has been supporting healthy food purchases of Community Supported Agriculture shares. This is the equivalent of over $50,000- or over 70,000 servings- of fruits and veggies on the table for hundreds of [...]

Produce Prescription Programs Change Lives Produce Prescription Programs, like PRx, change lives! A new study (read it here) identifies a compelling connection between access to nutritious foods and the reduction of chronic health conditions. Produce prescriptions are part of a growing effort in health care to provide ‘food as medicine’ in [...]