Purchase Options

At the Crescent City Farmers Market, we want to make our vendors’ products accessible to as many people as possible, so we offer a variety of purchase options.

Cash

Vendors and market staff happily accept cash. Smaller bills are preferred.

Apple Pay

We are able to accept Apple Pay, which works similarly to using a credit or debit card. Stop by the Welcome Tent and use your phone to buy tokens. A $2 administrative fee applies to Apple Pay purchases.

Personal Checks

We can turn your paper money into wooden tokens too. Please make all checks payable to Market Umbrella and add a $2 processing fee to your total.

Market Tokens

No cash? No problem! We have our own local currency - wooden market tokens in $5 and $1 units - which are accepted at all of our vendors’ stalls and are good forever! Visit our Welcome Tent to purchase tokens. 

Credit/Debit Card

Many of our vendors accept credit cards, but for the ones that do not please stop by the Welcome Tent and turn your plastic (we accept Visa, MasterCard) into wood by purchasing Crescent tokens, our local currency. Tokens can be used at all of our vendors’ stalls at all of our markets, and they never expire! Note: There is a $2 token handling fee for credit and debit cardholders to help us offset the cost of managing the currency.

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT/SNAP/Food Stamps)

We accept EBT card funds. Stop by the Welcome Tent to use your EBT card to obtain 

SNAP tokens. These work much as our Crescent tokens do, with a few exceptions due to government regulations: change is only given in EBT tokens, and the following products/services cannot be purchased with EBT tokens: ready-to-eat food, nonfood items, and alcohol. All of our vendors (unless offering the goods and services previously mentioned) accept these tokens, and they never expire! So bring your Louisiana Purchase Card or other state EBT card and exchange your benefits for tokens.

Market Match (MM)

For Each EBT/SNAP dollar redeemed at CCFM we’ll match each EBT dollar you spend, up to $40 per market visit, with additional Market Match tokens that can be used to purchase fruits, vegetables, and even food-bearing plant starts!

Can I return SNAP EBT Tokens?

If you would like to return unused Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) currency and have the value credited back to your SNAP Card, you can do so, as long as:

1. You return the SNAP tokens to the same market that distributed it.
2. You request the refund on the same day you made the SNAP purchase at that market.
3. Your requested refund amount is equal to, or less than, the original purchase.

These rules are common amongst Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) processing companies and apply because the return must be completed on the same point-of-sale device as the original purchase was made, and the return must be completed in the same “batch” as the purchase transaction. No SNAP EBT tokens will be refunded without an equal return of Market Match tokens.