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Kentucky get $313,000 in Farm to School grants Taylor County School District one of recipients; awarded a $45,000 grant or school garden where students will grow produce tht will be sold to the school food service office Click on headline for complete story By Ted Sloan News from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky has been awarded five grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture totaling nearly $313,000 aimed at getting more local foods into Kentucky schools, the USDA announced on Tuesday. Two grants for a total of $87,957 went to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. "These grants will enable the department and the other grantees to provide Kentucky school children greater access to fresh, local foods," Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said. "This will help our children grow up to be healthy and strong. This also will help Kentucky farmers have the certainty of a market for their products." The KDA will use a grant for $71,223 to expand its Farm To School Program in partnership with producers, processors, school food service authorities, educators, food distributors, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, and the Kentucky Farm to School Task Force. A second grant, for $16,734, will be used by the KDA and the Kentucky Department of Education to provide full-day trainings on procuring local foods for child nutrition programs in each of eight distribution regions throughout the state. Tina Garland, coordinator of the KDA's Farm to School program, applied for the grants and will be in charge of administering them. "Without Tina's efforts, we would not be receiving these funds," said Bill Wickliffe, director of the department's Division of Food Distribution, which includes the Farm to School Program. "Thanks to Tina's leadership, the Farm to School Program continues to grow." Other grants awarded to Kentucky entities went to:
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