USDA Food Boxes

Author: Kim Angel

Major Program: Local Food System Development and Mapping

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many families are struggling to make ends meet and feed their families.   Jackson County Cooperative Extension partnered with Save the Children to obtain USDA Food boxes to help feed families in need throughout the community.  Each week during the months of March and April, a truck load of food costing $44,000 and containing 1,300 boxes of food is brought into the county.   The boxes include two meats, cabbage, cheese, milk, potatoes, apples, and cott

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Farmers’ Markets are Essential

Author: LaToya Drake

Major Program: Local Food System Development and Mapping

Farmers’ markets benefit producers, consumers, and communities. The Farmers’ Market Coalition explains that farmers’ markets preserve America’s rural livelihoods and farmland, stimulate local economies, increase access to fresh and nutritious foods, support healthy communities, and promote sustainability. During the COVID pandemic, with the disappearance of essential products from store shelves, local food sources were and are more important than ever. To follow COVI

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