Mills Administration Announces 2022 Farm to Food Bank Project Award

Release: Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry

November 22, 2021

For more information contact: Jim Britt at: Jim.Britt@maine.gov

AUGUSTA - The Mills Administration announced today that nearly $38,000 will be utilized by a Maine organization to continue its efforts to reduce food waste by providing food to food pantries to feed Maine people. The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) has been awarded a $37,828 USDA Food and Nutrition Service Farm to Food Bank Project Award for work in 2022. This is the second year DACF has received Farm to Food Bank funding, which is part of The Emergency Food Assistance Program. 

DACF will partner with Healthy Acadia, an Ellsworth-based nonprofit, to prepare family-sized packages of frozen wild blueberries utilizing donated berries from local Washington and Hancock County family farm operations. 

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