On June 21, NYC Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest municipal health care system in the country, announced it will be hosting farmers markets at public hospitals and community health centers around New York City in order to provide patients, staff, and communities with access to healthy food. Health + Hospitals has partnered with two local non-profit farmers market organizations, Harvest Home Farmers Markets and GrowNYC to host the markets. 

The new program will include farmers markets at various Health + Hospitals locations throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, as well as fresh food box programs, which “enables under-served communities to purchase fresh, healthy…produce well below traditional retail prices.” Though the farmers markets are seasonal and will be open throughout the summer and fall, the fresh food box program is available year-round.