You are right. We are not on food stamps but we like fresh vegetables. We are growing radishes, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, and tomatos in a 8ft by 15ft space in our backyard.
I would love to get my hands on public assistance systems. How do you feel when you see what you planted grow and produce? Imagine the benefits that would instill making people that need assistance learn that. They would have to go to farms, pick to earn their public assistance, LEARN how to plant and produce themselves, and walk away with pride and skills.
We may even end up with more farmers from a program like that.