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MILTON — For the seventh year, the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences West Florida Research and Education Center and Feeding the Gulf Coast joined to celebrate National Farm to City Week. To do so, they distributed food before Thanksgiving.
The food was distributed Tuesday at the Guy Thompson Community Center in Milton to 400 pre-qualified families in need in the county.
The goal of the program is to promote agriculture and increase awareness about the importance of agriculture to consumers and the public, according to Robin Vickers of UF IFAS, the event coordinator.
Monday, agriculture students from Tate High School, Northview High School, Central High School, Jay High School, Milton High School, LEAD Academy, Earnest Ward Middle School and Beulah Science Academy, along with the Boy Scouts of America, harvested the locally grown produce at the West Florida Research and Education Center.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: 400 families receive locally grown food for Thanksgiving