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<\/a>\nThe\n\nLowndes County Partnership for Health<\/a>\nhas received a $96,858 grant\nfrom the USDA to continue to develop Farm Days Farmers Market, establish\nagricultural center that will serve the agri-science educational needs\nof area students and provide low cost fresh produce to primarily low\nincome populations in our area. In addition this project will aggregate\ncommodities from surrounding farms for distribution which will support\neconomic development among area farmers.\n\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016305a5e4e7970d-pi.png\")
<\/a>\nThe grant will pay for a full\ntime farm manager over two years, a portable vegetable stand to be\nused on a distribution route, travel cost associated with distribution\nroute, and promotional and educational materials for Farm days and the\nagricultural center. City of Valdosta staff assisted in the effort in\nthe preparation of the grant application. This project has grown out\nof the partnership between the City, the South Health District and the\nPartnership for Health with the Farm Days Farmers Market. The last\nmarket day for the year will be held on Saturday, October 20th.\n<\/blockquote>\n\nHere’s\n\nthe USDA’s paragraph<\/a> on that award:\n<\/p>\n \nThat’s good news!\nBut please, can we not<\/em> use this grant to move the location\nof Valdosta Farm Days?\nIt’s got a great site right where it is, around the historic\nLowndes County Courthouse.\n<\/p>\n \n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received 12 October 2012 from Tim Carroll from Mara Register from Larry Hanson. The Lowndes County Partnership for Health has received a $96,858 grant from the USDA to continue to develop Farm Days Farmers Market, establish agricultural center that will serve the agri-science educational needs of area students and provide low cost fresh produce to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[321,41,457],"tags":[8761,8701,609,8718,8702,12,7,411,6,8769],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-health-care","category-valdosta-farm-days","tag-food-and-drink","tag-georgia","tag-grant","tag-health-care","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-usda","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-farm-days"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-5f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n$96,858 to Lowndes County Partnership for Health, Inc., Valdosta,\nGA, for a community\u2010supported agricultural center that will serve\nas a food hub and educational center to increase access to\n\n
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<\/a>\naffordable, nutritious, local food in low\u2010income food deserts in\nSouth Georgia by purchasing a mobile farmers market van, offering\na series of workshops to train vendors, and establishing\ncommunity gardens for resident use.\n<\/blockquote>\n