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Feeding Kentucky puts healthy-but-imperfect produce on the plates of people in need

In LaRue County in central Kentucky, a third-generation farmer is transferring ripe tomatoes from vine to box to truck. Some of the tomatoes have blemishes and would not be a shopper’s first choice at the supermarket. But they are 90% perfect, edible and healthy, and these boxes are headed into the hands—and bellies—of people in

No Kid Hungry Kentucky Awards Over $90,000 to Expand Summer Meal Access in Rural Communities

When school’s out, hunger doesn’t take a break. For many Kentucky kids, especially in rural areas, summer can be one of the hungriest times of the year. No Kid Hungry Kentucky awarded over $90,000 in grants to six schools and community organizations working to make sure more kids get the meals they need.

1 in 5 Kentucky kids faces hunger. Congress is considering a plan that would make it worse.

In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or 1 in 6, face hunger. They often don’t know where and when their next meal will be. That sobering statistic is felt daily across the commonwealth — from families forced to choose between groceries and rent to schools struggling to meet students’ basic needs.

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