“Emergency Food Sites, which include Food Banks and Food Pantries, play a crucial role for Virginians facing food insecurity to obtain food for themselves and their family’s needs. They serve also as a community connection setting to obtain various other resources on benefits, health, and other social needs. Within Virginia, the Virginia Federation of Food…
“At the Jon Henry General Store in New Market, Virginia you’ll find SNAP Ed Agent Kelsey providing hands-on, in store education to shoppers once a week. Through a long partnership with SNAP Ed, the store displays evidence-based information, signage and recipes to educate their customers. As a rural independent grocer, Jon doesn’t have access to…
“For 5 years, SNAP Ed agent Andrea has been a fixture at the Abingdon Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoons. Andrea runs the market’s Kid Bucks program, which is sponsored by a local Pediatrics group. During the summer months when kids are out of school, Andrea provides a different lesson each week to teach kids about…
