Federal Way Farmers Market

What they do

City-of-Federal-Way-operated Saturday [[farmers-market|farmers market]] in Federal Way, Washington (south of Seattle in the Puget Sound region). Year-round operation; rain-or-shine. Vendor mix combines farmers, makers, food producers, and artisans. Pet-friendly (leashed dogs welcome). New location for 2026 at S 316th Street between Town Square Park and the Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center.

Comprehensive coupon-acceptance stack — among the most extensive of any US farmers market:

• SNAP / EBT
• P-EBT (pandemic-era and current emergency food benefits)
• SunBucks (Washington summer food program for school-age children)
• SNAP Market Match (state-level SNAP doubling)
• WIC — both Food and Cash Benefits
• SFMNP — Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program
• Senior Benefits Vouchers

Why it’s listed

Seven-program coupon-acceptance stack is unusual at the farmers-market scale. Most markets accept SNAP and maybe one or two other programs; Federal Way operationalizes a full range of food-equity programs including child-specific (P-EBT, SunBucks), senior-specific (SFMNP, Senior Vouchers), and WIC-cash variants. Combined with city-operated civic governance (margins return to [[san-francisco|the city]]‘s parks and events budget rather than to a private operator), the market is doing real food-equity infrastructure work for the south-Seattle/Puget Sound foodshed.

See also

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• Instance of: [[farmers-market]]
• Operated by: [[city-of-federal-way]]
• Member of: [[market]]
• Contained by: [[puget-sound]]
• Practices: [[food-sovereignty]]

Sources

• Federal Way Farmers Market
• OpenStreetMap

A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[puget-sound]] in [[directory|the directory]].