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Search ArticlesHow Our Most Vulnerable Are Being Pushed to the Brink— and Finding Nourishment and Connection — The Jefferson County Beacon
The Jefferson County Farmers Markets in Chimacum and Port Townsend participate in multiple federal food security programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Market Match (which doubles the value of SNAP purchases at farmers markets); Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP); and the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. SNAP, SFMNP and WIC are funded through the U.S. Farm Bill.
The Port Opens Shorts Farm Up to Local Farmers, Ranchers, and The Community Boat Project — The Jefferson County Beacon
Berg believes that buying Short’s Farm embodies the spirit in which ports were created. “Ag land is in that same boat where you see rich people aggregating thousands of acres of what is necessary for people to live. That's a little scary,” Berg said, before acknowledging that Jefferson County’s problems are a little different; we simply don’t have as much agricultural land as other rural counties.
News by Scott France Jefferson County farms, food banks, and school districts are scrambling to plug holes created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) termination of funding for two programs that provided more than $1.1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers in the U.S. “This was an 100% gut punch for agencies like ours around the county,” said Patricia Hennessy, Executive Director of the Jefferson County Food Bank Association (JCFBA).