Year‐Round Farm-to-School Food Program Wins USDA Grant
D.C. Central Kitchen received a $99,998 grant for its proposed 'Capacity for Change: Growing a Year‐Round Farm-to-School Program.'
D.C. Central Kitchen's grant-winning project, “Capacity for Change: Growing a Year‐Round Farm to School Program,” will increase its capacity to process and store more local produce. The $99,998 grant is the District organization's first successful competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Wednesday the USDA's announced the agency's first-ever Farm to School Grants, which will give $4.5 million to 68 projects, across 37 states and the District of Columbia. Get local news delivered to your inbox. Sign up for our newsletter. "This is a big moment for us," said Alex Moore, the deputy director of development at the D.C. Central Kitchen. The D.C. organization has been a farm to school food provider to D.C. Public Schools…
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