**Central Oregon’s**

Fill Your Pantry

Fill Your Pantry

## A Bulk Buying Pop Up Farmers Market

The 9th Annual Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry is a community bulk-buying farmers market created so YOU can fill up your pantry, freezer, and root cellar with great local products for the winter. Say bye-bye to busy holiday lines and produce that has traveled farther than you during holiday vacations, and say hello to a kitchen full of local meats, grains, vegetables, ferments, and more.

The Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry will allow you to stock up on items like potatoes, onions, leeks, beets, winter squash, garlic, honey, flours, apples, pears, dried beans, krauts, baked goods, and more.

This is a bulk-focused farmers market, so bring your muscles! Farmers, ranchers, orchardists, and producers will be selling large quantities of items. For example, 20lb bags of onions, 50lb bags of potatoes, 25lb boxes of ground beef, etc. This is a great opportunity for vendors to move product before the harsh Central Oregon winter and a great opportunity for you to save money and eat well all winter long.

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**DATE**

### Saturday

November 9th

2024

**TIME**

### 11am

to

3pm

**LOCATION**

### OSU Extension

parking lot

**Deschutes County Fairgrounds**

**We accept SNAP/EBT, DUFB, and FDNP currencies!**

If you would like to use EBT/SNAP at the Fill Your Pantry event, please bring your SNAP benefits card to the Bend Farmers Market booth at the Fill Your Pantry event. The Bend Farmers Market will be exchanging SNAP benefits for tokens. These tokens can be taken to any of our vendors to use just like you would your SNAP benefits. If you would like to use your FDNP vouchers, please take these vouchers directly to the vendors. Vendors that can take FDNP include: Boundless Farmstead, Deschutes Canyon Garlic, The Farmer in Odell, Fibonacci Farm, Rainshadow Organics, Sungrounded Farm, Upriver Organics, and Zajac Farms. In addition, The Bend Farmers Market will be offering up to a $100 match for EBT/SNAP recipients. So, if you exchange $100 in EBT benefits, you will receive $200 in benefits!

## Thanks to the Bend Farmers Market we will be offering a

$100 Double Up Food Bucks match!

**Donate food at Fill Your Pantry!**

This year, we will have two great opportunities to help out those experiencing food insecurity in our area-

Bend Food Project will be collecting non-perishable food items at their booth to donate to the Giving Plate Food Pantry. Please consider bringing canned or packaged goods to the event to donate to help out your food insecure neighbors.

HDFFA will be collecting fresh food items to donate to NeighborImpact and their associated food pantries. Consider buying an extra bulk item to donate to HDFFA!

Let's fill everyone's pantries this year!

## 2024 Coloring Contest

Y’all loved the Coloring Contest so much in 2023, we thought we’d bring it back for Round 2! How it works:

Download and print the coloring contest PDF or visit the Boundless Farmstead booth or Bend Farmers Market booth on Wednesday, or Central Oregon Locavore any day of the week for a hardcopy.

Color in your poster

On the back- write your first name, last initial, and age. Please include preferred contact info-phone number and/or email. (Parents, you can either write your name or your child's name)

Bring your poster to the FYP booth on November 9th anytime during the event

Each poster will be entered into our raffle

We will post the winners on our instagram and contact them by email/phone


We will have four winners, one in each age range- ages 0-5, ages 6-10, ages 10-18, and age 18+. Raffle prizes will include age-appropriate food and kitchen gear! Please, only one entry per person. Entry is free.