Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig today announced 33 schools or school districts have received grants to participate in the Choose Iowa Food Purchasing Program for Schools.
The one-year pilot program connects Iowa schools with Choose Iowa members to encourage school food service programs to purchase and serve more ingredients and products sourced from local farmers and small businesses.
The school pilot program has a total budget of 70-thousand dollars, and each school was eligible to apply for up to 1-thousand dollars per school building. Choose Iowa received applications from 61 schools or school districts totaling over 158-thousand dollars.
The Hampton-Dumont and Dike-New Hartford School Districts in the broadcast area have received the grants that can be used to purchase meat and poultry, dairy products other than milk, eggs, honey and produce.
Additional information can be found by going to chooseiowa.com.
