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The USDA AMS Local Food Promotion Program helps fund projects that develop, coordinate, and expand local and regional food business enterprises that engage as intermediaries in indirect producer-to-consumer marketing to help increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products.

Entities that are eligible to apply include agricultural businesses and cooperatives, CSA networks and associations, food councils, economic development corporations, local governments, nonprofit and public benefit corporations, producer networks or associations, regional farmers’ market authorities, and tribal governments.

The website includes details about grants that have been awarded around the country since fiscal year 2019. In FY 2024 and 2023, no grants were awarded to entities in Wyoming.

In FY 2022, the Satanka Food and Community Innovation Hub, a project of Feeding Laramie Valley based in Laramie, was awarded about $495,000 to develop a sustainable and equitable rural food supply system.