Free Workshops\n
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\nFarmers, Producers and Small Businesses\n<\/center>\n\nLearn how to access loans and grants for energy efficiency improvements or renewable energy projects through the Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP).\n<\/p>
\nLearn if you qualify for a Value Added Producer Grant, to help you diversify, market or promote your product.\n<\/p>
\nAll workshops are 10 a.m.\u2014noon\n<\/p>
\nOctober 19\u2014Thomasville<\/strong>\u2014Public Library-Flipper Rm., 210 N. Madison St. 229-225-5252\n<\/p>\nOctober 26\u2014Americus<\/strong>\u2014Pope Center Teleconference Room, South Georgia Technical College, 900 South Georgia Tech Pkwy. Directions at www.southgatech.edu; 229-931-2394\n<\/p>\nOctober 27\u2014Statesboro<\/strong>\u2014USDA Rural Development Service Center, Bulloch County Agribusiness Center, 151 Langston Chapel Rd. 912-871-2620\n<\/p>\nLimited Seating. For more information on these programs, visit\nhttp:\/\/www.rurdev.usda.gov\/ga<\/a>\nor contact craig.scroggs@ga.usda.gov or al.burns@ga.usda.gov.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USDA is offering to help people use federal money for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Their flyer is a PDF. I have transcribed it below.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8755,2899,8713,6001,411],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-reap","tag-renewable-energy","tag-renewable-energy-for-america-program","tag-usda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\nUSDA is offering to help people use federal money for energy efficiency\nand renewable energy. Their flyer is\n