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Kansas Rural Center announces 2012 Savor the Season program
Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 3:51pm by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
Groundbreaking Survey of Farmers Markets & Nutrition Programs Begins Today
Posted: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 10:07am by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
The following article comes from our good friends at the Famers Market Coalition:
Plan to Attend the Great Plains Growers Conference
Posted: Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 12:05pm by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
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Farmers Market EBT Program Funding Available
Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 11:33am by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
Expanding the number of farmers markets accepting food stamps will be possible through a 2011 Kansas Department of Agriculture grant awared to the Kansas Rural Center.
Regional Farmers Market Workshop Scheduled in Allen County
Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 12:01pm by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
By Debbie Bearden, Allen County Farm Bureau
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Kansas Farmers Union Annual Convention will address how the 2012 Farm Bill will affect family farms
Posted: Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:02pm by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
McPHERSON— Kansas Farmers Union would like to invite the public to their Annual Convention, “The 2012 Farm Bill: A Defining Moment in Agriculture,” on December 2-3 at the Ramada...
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Kansas Rural Center 2011 Sustainable Agriculture Conference to Highlight Opportunities and Outlook for Food and Farming in Kansas
Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 6:46pm by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
The Kansas Rural Center announces that its 2011 Sustainable Agriculture Conference will focus on food and farm opportunities and the optimism for expanding local and regional food and farming in...
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Emporia Farmers Market has matching funds for food
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2011 - 4:23pm by
Rosedale Farmers' Market
originally published by Emporia Gazette Families relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other programs to put food on the table have a friend in farmers markets and the...
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Internship Opportunities Available with the Our Local Food Program
Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 9:06am by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
Our Local Food – Kaw River Valley, a program of the Kansas Rural Center and supported in part by the USDA Specialty Crop Grant Program, through a sub-grant from the Kansas Department of...
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Funding Available to Expand the Kansas Farmers Market EBT Program
Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 11:56am by
Mercedes Taylor-Puckett
Expanding the number of farmers markets accepting food stamps will be possible through a recent Kansas Department of Agriculture grant awared to the Kansas Rural Center.