Donation to support our local schools food purchasing program

We received news that the USDA abruptly cancelled the Local Food Funding that helped local farms like us provide high quality food to local schools and food banks. This program has been highly successful and funding had been approved until 2028. This abrupt cancellation is devastating to us as we have already planned our production year around providing pasture raised chicken to our local school system. It’s also devastating to the school system as they are no longer able to provide high quality local food to their students. This decision does not impact us alone, it impacts our meat processor, our feed supplier and any other vendors we deal with in purchasing supplies for our operation. This decision hurts American farmers and students across the board and we don’t understand the rationale behind this. We loved being able to provide high quality food for students in our schools and to see it gone is heartbreaking.  We are doing something about it though, here is what we have plann