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The following projects were awarded grants in Fiscal Year 2007:
- District of Columbia: $41,312 to the Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC, to develop EBT (electronic benefits transfer) infrastructure for four farmers markets in the District, and provide EBT training to farmers market staff.
- Hawaii: $29,300 to the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Honolulu, Hawaii, to establish and promote a new producer-only farmers market in Waianae, Oahu, that will offer fresh fish and agricultural products, which will provide farmers and fishers in the area a new direct-to-consumer market channel.
- Idaho: $60,294 to Hagerman I.D.E.A. (Improvement, Development, Education and Appreciation), Inc., Hagerman, Idaho, to create an agricultural marketing cooperative where producers sell their own products directly to consumers via the Internet.
- Indiana: $38,000 to the City of West Lafayette, Ind., to establish a "Green and Lean" marketing program at the Sagamore West Farmers' Market that will include an advertising campaign with educational materials for vendors and consumers to promote healthy eating, physical fitness and personal safety.
- Indiana: $15,844 to the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce, Plainfield, Ind., to establish a second farmers market at the Metropolis Mall, with promotional advertising, consumer-based education to attract customers and enhance the viability of the new market location.
- Iowa: $8,128 to Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development, Oakland, Iowa, to establish and promote the new Riverside Farmers Market through advertising to consumers, farmer recruitment and training and educational events linking fresh food with community health and wellness.
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