{"id":302178,"date":"2026-10-08T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302178\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:48:09","slug":"highmark-wholecare-to-host-largest-free-farmers-market-to-date-in-southwestern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302178\/","title":{"rendered":"Highmark Wholecare to Host Largest Free Farmers Market To Date in Southwestern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(File Photo of the Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Logo)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Washington, PA) Highmark Wholecare will host a free farmers market tomorrow in Washington, Pennsylvania at the Washington Junior Senior High School with Washington School District and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Students as well as their families and members of the community will be able to select their own fresh produce and the food distribution will occur from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of Highmark Wholecare\u2019s Farm-to-Family program so the medicaid insurer address food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>13,000 pounds of food will be available for over 600 families at this event, which makes it the largest Farm-to-Family event in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the program\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Highmark Wholecare has given out over 226,000 pounds of food to 12,000 families at farmers markets in Western and Central Pennsylvania through 30 events so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of the Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-302178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}