Post by Mary B. on Sept 24, 2015 7:29:12 GMT -8
UPDATE: It's official! National Foodcycle Week has become a reality and events are happening in three states. There have also been requests for a Spring Harvest Foodcycle Week.
Read below for links to the pages that explain the awareness program and how to participate.
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(Original Post:)
In our coho, we have a quarterly Freecycle Day where we set up tables in the community house and everyone brings their "junk". In our first Freecycle event, I came home with a bread machine, iPod (filled with music), antique napkins that match my grandmother's china, 10 pounds of candles, and a swishy black skirt. (Everyone needs a swishy black skirt.)
In light of the disturbing news about SNAP benefits, I was thinking that community gardens and avid backyard gardeners might consider contributing some of their backyard bounty to local food banks.
What say you?
Households dependent on SNAP, by state: www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/30SNAPcurrHH.pdf
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USDA TELLS STATES THAT FOOD STAMP FUNDS MIGHT NOT COME IN OCTOBER: The USDA is warning states they shouldn't authorize new funds to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards - used to issue food stamps - for October because of a possible government shutdown.
In a Sept. 18 letter to all state food stamp agencies, Food and Nutrition Service Administrator Audrey Rowe said, "Considering the operational issues and constraints that exist in automated systems, and in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are directing states to hold their October issuance files and delay transmission to [EBT] vendors until further notice."
About 45 million people currently depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to help put food on the table.
"I spoke with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this afternoon and he very clearly said that there is not enough money in the SNAP contingency fund to prevent millions of Americans from going hungry should the government shutdown on Oct. 1," Rep. Rosa DeLauro told POLITICO.
Quoted from Morning Ag
Read below for links to the pages that explain the awareness program and how to participate.
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(Original Post:)
In our coho, we have a quarterly Freecycle Day where we set up tables in the community house and everyone brings their "junk". In our first Freecycle event, I came home with a bread machine, iPod (filled with music), antique napkins that match my grandmother's china, 10 pounds of candles, and a swishy black skirt. (Everyone needs a swishy black skirt.)
In light of the disturbing news about SNAP benefits, I was thinking that community gardens and avid backyard gardeners might consider contributing some of their backyard bounty to local food banks.
What say you?
Households dependent on SNAP, by state: www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/30SNAPcurrHH.pdf
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USDA TELLS STATES THAT FOOD STAMP FUNDS MIGHT NOT COME IN OCTOBER: The USDA is warning states they shouldn't authorize new funds to Electronic Benefit Transfer cards - used to issue food stamps - for October because of a possible government shutdown.
In a Sept. 18 letter to all state food stamp agencies, Food and Nutrition Service Administrator Audrey Rowe said, "Considering the operational issues and constraints that exist in automated systems, and in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are directing states to hold their October issuance files and delay transmission to [EBT] vendors until further notice."
About 45 million people currently depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to help put food on the table.
"I spoke with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this afternoon and he very clearly said that there is not enough money in the SNAP contingency fund to prevent millions of Americans from going hungry should the government shutdown on Oct. 1," Rep. Rosa DeLauro told POLITICO.
Quoted from Morning Ag