Human Services Helps Seniors Enjoy Summer Bounty

For many of the elderly in Groton living on rigidly fixed low incomes, fresh fruits and vegetables are an often-unaffordable commodity. And in the summertime, when the locally grown fruits and vegetables are so ripe and abundant, it’s hard to see so many go without.

Groton Human Services wants to help ensure that they do not.

Now, seniors 60 and older (or disabled under 60 and living in subsidized housing) with incomes of $21,257 for a single or $28,694 for a couple, are eligible for a free farmers’ market coupon book worth $18.

The supplies are limited so it’s first-come, first-served. Visit Human Services at 2 Fort Hill Road from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

And if you know someone who may be eligible, please share this information.

Here are a couple of local farmers’ markets!

Downtown Mystic 

Denison Farm Market