Tag: Daniel Bowman Simon

SNAP Gardens

SNAP Gardens Puts Food Stamps to Better Use

In our latest issue, Ann Monroe profiles Daniel Bowman Simon, a young entrepreneur who discovered a 1973 provision in the food stamp legislation that no one knew about–literally only one other person had ever heard of it– which said that food stamps could also be spent seeds and plants.

Gardeners With Benefits

One determined New Yorker learned food stamps can be spent on seeds and seedlings—and set out to change the world.