Launched in 2009, the USDA's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food program is an effort to improve local and regional food systems and create economic development in low-income communities by supporting small to mid-sized farms. In September 2009, the initiative awarded $4.8 million in grants through the Community Food Project's Competitive Grant Program and an additional $4.5 million through the Farmers Market Promotion Program. Recipients included urban agricultural focused organizations, including $300,000 to the Southside Community Land Trust in Providence, R.I., $75,000 to Growing Power, Inc. in Milwaukee, WI and $41,000 to the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture.
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