The Food Trust

What they do

The Food Trust is a 30+ year Philadelphia-headquartered nonprofit working on equitable food access. [[mission-district-sf|Mission]] statement: “Delicious, nutritious food for all.” Three pillars: food access, food affordability, nutrition education.

[[directory|The directory]] tracks The Food Trust at the organization level because they operate 20+ year-round farmers markets across Philadelphia that appear as individual entries in the directory — a single org running the largest producer-only farmers-market network in the city.

Programs

• Farmers Markets — year-round operation; all markets accept EBT/ACCESS, WIC checks, senior checks, and Food Bucks. The list includes 22nd & Tasker, 29th & Wharton, 33rd & Diamond, 52nd & Haverford, 58th & Chester, Broad & Snyder’s, Broad & South, Clark Park, Cliveden Park, Fairhill Square Park, plus 10+ more across Philadelphia neighborhoods
• Food Bucks — nutrition-incentive program that helps SNAP users afford [[fresh-produce|fresh produce]] by doubling/multiplying their SNAP dollars at participating retailers and markets
• Healthy Corner Stores — works with bodegas and corner stores in food-access-limited neighborhoods to stock [[fresh-produce|fresh produce]] and healthy options
• Community Nutrition Education — nutrition curricula and learning resources for schools, families, and community partners
• Farm to School — connects K-12 schools to local farms for cafeteria sourcing and educational programming
• Healthy Food Financing — capital support for food retail in underserved areas
• Policy advocacy — federal/state work on nutrition-assistance programs

Strategic focus

The 2022-27 strategic plan emphasizes programs + partnerships + policy as the lever for sustainable change in nutrition security and community health.

Why it’s listed

The Food Trust is the institutional anchor behind a significant chunk of Philadelphia’s directory listings. Recognizing the organization at this level lets the individual market entries reference it via operated-by relations rather than recapitulating the same organizational context in each one.

Markets operated by The Food Trust (in the directory)

Individual markets are listed separately; representative examples include:

• [[22nd-tasker-farmers-market]]
• [[29th-wharton-farmers-market]]
• [[33rd-diamond-farmers-market]]
• [[52nd-haverford-farmers-market]]
• [[58th-chester-farmers-market]]
• [[broad-snyders-farmers-market]]
• [[broad-south-farmers-market]]
• [[clark-park-farmers-market]]
• [[cliveden-park-farmers-market]]
• [[fairhill-square-park-farmers-market]]

(20+ in total — see the chain-detector report at _knowledge/chain-detector-report.md for the full list as of 2026-05-11.)

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

• Shares approach with: [[food-sovereignty]] · [[farmers-market]]
• Member of: [[organization]]
• Contained by: [[schuylkill-valley]]
• Operates: [[22nd-tasker-farmers-market]] · [[29th-wharton-farmers-market]] · [[33rd-diamond-farmers-market]] · [[52nd-haverford-farmers-market]] · [[58th-chester-farmers-market]] · [[broad-snyders-farmers-market]] · [[broad-south-farmers-market]] · [[clark-park-farmers-market]] · [[cliveden-park-farmers-market]] · [[fairhill-square-park-farmers-market]] · [[fairmount-farmers-market]] · [[fitler-square-farmers-market]] · [[frankford-transportation-center-farmers-market]] · [[headhouse-farmers-market]] · [[hunting-park-farmers-market]] · [[olney-transportation-center-farmers-market]] · [[overbrook-farmers-market]] · [[oxford-circle-farmers-market]] · [[schuylkill-river-park-farmers-market]] · [[west-oak-lane-farmers-market]]

Sources

• The Food Trust website

Related concepts: [[farmers-market]] · [[food-sovereignty]].

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A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[schuylkill-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].