Fort Belknap Indian Community LFPA Plus Executive Summary

The Fort Belknap Indian Community will use the funds to be used for procurement of locally grown unprocessed/minimally processed foods and meat. Food purchases will be made from local and regional farmers and ranchers. A subaward will be granted to the Day Eagle Hope Project which is operated by an enrolled Tribal member who resides on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The beneficiaries will be local farmers and ranchers with the expected outcomes to be grown local, buy local and serve local. The farmers and ranchers are identified as social and economically disadvantages producers or rural producers with the intended beneficiaries to be the underserved population of which have been identified at living below the federal poverty level.