The Delaware Division of Small Business presented a pair of checks this week to awardees of the Delaware Grocery Initiative and the First State Food System Grant Program.<\/p>\n
On Monday, August 3, 2026, $20,000 was given to the Milton Community Food Pantry for an expansion of their program to include fresh food.<\/p>\n
North Dover Elementary School received $15,000 to expand the school’s garden program.<\/p>\n
That presentation was made Tuesday morning, August 4th at Springer Middle School in New Castle County, which has a new school based garden which is to be replicated in Dover.<\/p>\n
A total of $712,000 is being awarded through the program to 28 schools and organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Delaware Division of Small Business presented a pair of checks this week to awardees of the Delaware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[340700,224956,340702,340705,340703,97,340704,269,340701],"class_list":["post-802690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-check-presentation","tag-darius-brown","tag-delaware-grocery-initiative","tag-division-of-small-business","tag-first-state-food-system-grant-program","tag-health","tag-healthy-foods-for-healthy-kids","tag-nutrition","tag-springer-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}