The Levelock Village Food Security and Sovereignty Program will provide funding for the purchase of locally produced foods from socially disadvantaged producers in Alaska. Levelock currently faces food security and sovereignty threats due to high food costs, procurement expenses, and environmental threats to traditional foods that make it challenging to bring food to this remote village. The funds will allow for food to be bought directly from local producers with whom the Village has developed partnerships, focusing on small, disadvantaged farms and indigenous producers.

Docket Number: AMS-NOP-23-0089
Dates: Application packages must be received by mail or postmarked on or before June 28, 2024.

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Docket Number: AMS-SC-22-0079
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The referendum will be conducted from May 13 through May 27, 2024. Only pear growers who grew pears within the designated production area during the period July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, are eligible to vote in this referendum.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it will conduct a referendum, May 13 – 27, 2024, on a proposed amendment to the federal marketing order for Oregon and Washington pears. The amendment was recommended by the Fresh Pear Committee.

The United Keetoowhah Band of Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian tribe, will utilize USDA's LFPA Plus funds in the amount of $1,200,000 to purchase eligible food from local farmers and producers, including member growers and gatherers of seasonal cultural foods to distribute as a supplemental food source to its members in "Old Cherokee Nation" area for a one year period. The overall goal is to help support the local food supply.

The Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians (TMTC) is a Federally Recognized Tribe located on the Tuolumne Rancheria in Tuolumne, California. The Tribe is a small Federally Recognized Tribe with 485 members, of which 200 reside on the Rancheria, and the remaining live in surrounding communities and adjacent counties: Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mariposa, Amador, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties.

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana seeks to expand and extend its United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food Purchase Cooperative Agreement (LFPA) to continue to empower our tribal community to distribute healthy local foods to underserved tribal citizens. This one-year extension to the existing cooperative agreement will allow the tribe to continue to build relationships and capacity among our tribal community and local non-native stakeholders food producers.

Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation (TDN, or the Nation) seeks to strengthen the resilience of their local food systems through purchasing from local, socially disadvantaged food producers and distributing fresh food boxes to underserved community members. This Local Food Purchasing project will help to address food security issues on and around the reservation area, which is classified as a food desert while supporting socially disadvantaged food producers in the local region.

The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is applying for an amended “Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program” (LFPA Plus) grant to procure and distribute domestic food to underserved and impoverished Tribal members in our local community. The Tribe will seek out and engage local and regional socially disadvantaged farmers/producers within a 400-mile radius of our reservation distribution site who can provide domestic foods for allocation to our community members. 

The Chickasaw Nation (CN) Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) provides fruit and vegetable benefits to eligible First Americans during the summer months. The Winter Fruit and Vegetable Benefit Program (WFVB) for Chickasaw seniors was created to compliment SFMNP and to support the year-round nutritional needs of Chickasaw seniors by providing fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and vegetables during the winter months: November, December, January, February, and March.