food banks

Congress is considering major cuts to SNAP food assistance benefits. They could have an outsized impact in Appalachian Kentucky, where more than one in five rely on the benefits.

Tennessee students will have less access to locally grown foods and Tennessee farmers will lose out on millions of dollars in purchases after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut two programs funding local foods for schools and food banks.

Kentucky’s Farms to Food Banks program is off to a healthy start this season, with 49 farmers already participating to sell 'ugly produce' that's not visually perfect enough for many grocery stores.

Some western Kentucky food pantries were adversely affected by last week’s storm, and those that weren’t are working to assist storm survivors in nearby communities.

A new federal program is buying more than $1 billion in farm products such as dairy, produce and meat unable to be sold due to the pandemic’s disruptions…

Food banks and pantries across the Ohio Valley are seeing spiked demand as anunprecedented surge of people continue to file for unemployment benefits,…

The director of a Kentucky food bank told members of the Bowling Green Noon Rotary Club on May 22 not to assume they know what a hungry person looks like.…

America’s trade disputes have decreased the export of many food products, so the U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying surplus from farmers and...

Cyndi Kirkhart has some 26,000 square feet of warehouse space at the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia, where she is executive…

A pilot program in the Bluegrass is working to get a Kentucky dietary staples in the hands of those who need it most. It’s happening with the help of a…