SNAP shoppers at Albuquerque’s Rail Yards Market could get $3 worth of produce for every $1 in benefits in summer 2026 through the Triple Up program, which ran through Aug. 31, 2026, or until funding ran out, KOB 4 reports. Market leader Casey O’Keefe said the short-term boost was paid for with leftover grant money from the state’s farmers’ market association and let families stretch their food dollars further on fresh produce.
Victoria Montoya, a fourth-generation orchard grower, said the program benefits farmers by bringing customers in and helps families by giving them access to local, healthy, nutritious food. “So many children are food insecure,” she told KOB 4.
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