Awardees Announced: 2012 Savor the Season Promotional Funding Program

The Kansas Rural Center announced today that sixteen Kansas farmers market were awarded a total of $4,100 through the 2012 Savor the Season Promotional Funding Program.

2012 Savor the Season Cost-Share proposals selected for funding:

Allen County Farmers Market awarded $336
Atchison Farmers Market awarded $100
Emporia Farmers Market awarded $300
KCK Green Market: Strawberry Hill awarded $400
Leavenworth Farmers Market awarded $400

2012 Savor the Season Mini-Grant proposals selected for funding:

Basehor Farmers Market awarded $250
Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market awarded $250
Delano Community Farmers Market  awarded $205
Glasco Farmers Market awarded $155
Farmers Market in Historic Downtown Independence awarded $250
KCK Green Market: Catholic Charities awarded $250
Marysville Farmers Market awarded $250
Normandie Center Farmers Market awarded $250
Oberlin Farmers Market awarded $250
Paola Farmers Market awarded $204
Rosedale Farmers Market awarded $250

A total of nineteen proposals requesting almost $5,400 were received.

Savor the Season is a program of the Kansas Rural Center made possible by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant from the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Project partners include KDA, K-State Research and Extension, Kansas Vegetable Growers Association, Kansas Farmers Union and the Kansas Center for Sustainable and Alternative Crops.