Double Up Food Bucks Fundraising Week 
is April 8-16, 2025!

​Raffle open through May 8!

To raise critical funds to continue supporting our community, we host a fundraising week every year.
​Join us at many local events and buy tickets in the raffle with some wonderful local packages!

Neighbors helping neighbors

We rely on community support to raise funds for the whole year!
Double Up Food Bucks Fundraising Week ensures that our community can support the Double Up Program during the summer when there is more availability of fresh produce at the markets.

​Donating to Double Up allows more people to have access to fresh and healthy foods, while also supporting farmers during peak season.  

As our community continues to grapple with the damage and destruction from Hurricane Helene, it’s more important than ever to shop local. 

Last fall after Hurricane Helene devastated the High Country, many of our neighbors received Disaster SNAP cards to help cover the cost of food lost when full refrigerators and freezers were without electricity for weeks.

Thanks to Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture's Double Up Food Bucks program, not only were D-SNAP recipients able to restock on food, but they could purchase high quality local food at half the price with these benefits and support local farmers whose businesses were suffering post-storm. 

Post-Helene, many farmers lost key markets channels due to restaurant closures, and others needed to move product quickly because of power outages. Meanwhile, the damaged roads meant that many grocery store shelves were bare.

The storm reminded us all of the importance of investing in local food systems to support our community’s resilience.

As we kick off Double Up Food Bucks Fundraising Week, we need your help supporting this critical food access program. This will ensure that High Country families have access to abundant local food through the busy market season.

What is Double Up and how can I support it? 

The Double Up Food Bucks Program is critically important for food access in our community.  It doubles federal nutrition benefits
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​In Watauga County, 1 in 7 adults and 1 in 5 children are considered food insecure, while food prices and the cost of living continue to rise. '

Funds raised now will ensure that the Double Up program can continue to offer up to $75 daily matches for customers throughout the entire year at all four market channels.

In 2024, Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture’s Double Up Food Bucks program doubled over $40,000 in nutrition benefits (including SNAP and the Senior and WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program) on local food, helping to support our food insecure community members and our local farmers and producers.

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture has been operating this program since 2017, and has distributed a total of $241,564 in doubled benefits since its inception. See our impact below. 

While we receive federal and local grants, we also depend on the support of our community to keep the program operating at the level it does.

Thank you Sponsors!

Thank you to all the local businesses who have sponsored events and donated raffle items to make this fundraising week a success!

Become a Sponsor

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​Double Up Food Bucks operates from diverse funding streams: local grants, individual donations, town contributions, federal grants, and fundraising efforts. By doubling existing federal nutrition benefits, this program maximizes the food access impacts for low-income community members while also supporting our local economy.

​Your sponsorship enables us to continue doubling benefits up to $75 a day, providing families with more healthy local food and farmers with increased income!

Want to be a sponsor? Fill out this short form. 
Rather simply make a donation? Donate here.  

It’s a win-win-win!

Our food insecure community members have greater access to healthy local food, our local farmers and producers get sales that they would have otherwise missed, and more food dollars stay in the local economy!

Impact & Testimonials

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“The Double Up Food Bucks Program gave me the chance to support local farmers and buy fresh produce when otherwise I wouldn’t have had sufficient funds to do so.”
- Double Up Food Bucks participant

“Buying local healthy food is very very important to me and I want to see everyone in our community get the chance to be able to participate. I value the connection between food and community and think that the Double Up program is an important piece of allowing this to be possible.” -Double Up Food Bucks supporter

“We have a lot of regular customers who shop with us each week using their Double Up tokens. The program is helpful for them because it makes our products more affordable and they do not have to feel like they are making a sacrifice when choosing nutritious bread over grocery store bread.”
- Farmers' Market Vendor, Between the Trees 
P.O. Box 67 | 969 W King Street
 Boone, NC 28607 | 828.386.1537
Email: [email protected]
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Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture is a non-profit tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)3 of the IRS code (Federal ID # 34-2011588). 

Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-814-5400. The license is not an endorsement by the state.