Tag: Food banks

Peanut Butter Challenge collects over 13 tons statewide

Posted: December 22, 2020

The 2020 UF/IFAS Peanut Butter Challenge collected just over 27,000 pounds of peanut butter across 53 counties, all of which will fill participating counties’ food banks this holiday season. This year marks the first in which the event… Read More

Category: UF/IFAS Extension

Tags: Escambia County, Food banks, Food Insecurity, Libbie Johnson, peanut butter, Peanut Butter Challenge

Florida farmers overcome COVID-19 impacts

by Tory Moore

Posted: September 14, 2020

More than 70% of Florida’s large farms sell to the service industry which includes theme parks, hotels, restaurants and cruise lines. When COVID-19 brought the tourism industry to a crashing halt this spring, farmers around the state quickly… Read More

Category: Agriculture, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension

Tags: Covid-19, covid19, Food banks

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