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Testimony seeks $2 million to continue Vermont Food Bank's 'Vermonters Feeding Vermonters' local purchasing program
Summary
Representative Michelle Boslin described H.167, which requests $2 million from the General Fund to continue a Vermont Food Bank program that buys local farm products for food‑insecure Vermonters; House appropriations funded $500,000 so far, and program data and impacts were presented to the Senate Agriculture committee.
For the record, Michelle Boslin outlined H.167, the Vermonters Feeding Vermonters program continuation request, and asked the Senate Agriculture Committee to support an appropriation of $2,000,000 from the General Fund to sustain contracts that buy Vermont‑produced food for food‑insecure Vermonters.
Boslin, who identified herself as representing the Windham‑3 area (Westminster, Rockingham and Brookline), told the committee the program — run by the Vermont Food Bank and supported in partnership with the Department of Agriculture and Markets — began in 2018 to connect…
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