Review panel members urgently needed for FMLFPP and FSMIP

[Wes King]

Hi all,

The other day USDA quietly put out the call for review panel members for the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program and for the Federal State Marketing Improvement Program.  These panels review and rank proposals and thus determine who and what get funded with the $30 million a year for FMLFPP that NSAC championed and won.

We need good people on these panels, especially for the local food portion of the FMLFPP but for all of it as well, to make sure the huge increase in farm bill funding that local food systems and sustainable agriculture advocates won in the farm bill process is used to its most effective ends. 

This needs immediate attention if you are interested.  All of the details are in the USDA news release attached to this email.  Thanks for considering it, and for passing it along to other good folk.

Thanks,

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Wes King

Executive Director

Illinois Stewardship Alliance
"Local Food Matters"

217-528-1563

www.ilstewards.org

 
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[Cavanaugh-Grant, Deborah Ann]

The University of Illinois Extension will be holding three Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program Grant Writing Workshops in April (April 8, Springfield; April 15; Mt. Vernon; and April 23, Grayslake).  The workshops are free and will be held from 1:00-5:00 p.m.  For more information and to register, check out https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registration/?RegistrationID=11736

 

Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant

Extension Educator, Local Food Systems and Small Farms

University of Illinois Extension

700 S. Airport Drive

Springfield, IL 62707

217-782-4617

   Serving Logan, Menard and Sangamon Counties

cvng...@illinois.edu

http://web.extension.illinois.edu/lms/

http://web.extension.illinois.edu/smallfarm/

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