Their small farms helped stock food pantries. That program is going away.

Screenshot from the video: Oaks & Sprouts – Regenerative Farmer Stories – Ohio TNC Agriculture. Article by Amanda Becker. The 19th News – May 20, 2025.

URBANA, OHIO — Oaks and Sprouts, Tonni and Graham Oberly’s family farm, got the email from the Ohio Association of Foodbanks just after five o’clock on the first Friday in March. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, had notified the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services that it was ending a program that gave state, tribal and territorial governments federal dollars to stock food pantries from farms within a 400-mile radius. […]

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