Items Tagged with 'local food'

More fresh, California-grown food may be headed to local schools, thanks to $8.49 million in grants from the California Department of Food and Agriculture Office of Farm to Fork.

Farmers who were facing a steep drop in government payments in 2021 will instead see a third round of coronavirus relief payments and other producers and ag processors left out of previous aid programs this year will get help this time, under a massive stimulus package and government funding bill.

Input on the CDFA's 2021 Farm to School Incubator Grant Program's request for applications is due soon.

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom butchering.