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Recent Wholesome Wave News Coverage

May 2013

In Focus: Five Things to Watch in the Farm Bill

April 2013

Chefs urge Congress to pass farm bill with help for SNAP participants to buy fruits, vegetables

Local Food Advocates Prescribe Fruits And Veggies For Food Stamp Recipients

Healthy benefits: Nonprofit hospitals could reap credit for improving the eating habits of their patients and communities

December 2012

Farm Bill Becomes Fodder In ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Wrangling

Accessing Fresh Produce

November 2012

SNAP Program at Farmers Markets Expanding in 2013

Wholesome Wave’s Initiatives Are Sprouting Changes in the Communities

October 2012

Group Launches Two Year Study to Promote Maine Seafood

Prescriptions for Produce Helping to Cut Obesity

FVRx Produce Prescriptions At Austin Clinic Commend Fruit, Vegetables To Pregnant Women

Study to Look at Ways to Distribute Maine Seafood

New England Farmers Union: SNAP Benefits Local Agriculture

Navigating the challenges of regional distribution: ‘Louisvores’ tackle farm-fresh food for schools

September 2012

Proposed cuts to food stamps may affect Oakland’s farmers’ markets

How one Skowhegan Woman is Driving a Local Foods Revolution

Farmers Markets Can Bring Food to Where It’s Needed

From Farm to City: Trading Food Stamps for Fresh Foods

US grant, loan awards highlighted during US Rep. John Olver’s visit to Valley farm

USDA highlighting Franklin County farmers’ recovery from Tropical Storm Irene

Grant Supports Food Hub Initiative

USDA Officials Visit Deerfield Farm

August 2012

Coupon Program Encourages Healthy Eating

Agriculture commissioner visits East Side Farm Stand 

Produce Prescriptions: Program Promotes Healthy Eating 

Grant will help Fresh New London create ‘healthy food hubs’ 

Courtney Lauds Farm Grant From Wholesome Wave 

Doctors prescribe fruits and vegetables

Courtney applauds $568,150 Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge grant to Wholesome Wave, FRESH New London 

Himes, Lieberman, Blumenthal Announce Over Half A Million Dollars For Job Creation And Growth In New England Food Industry 

July 2012

Fresh Food at Affordable Prices: How programs like Wholesome Wave are getting fresh food to all

Local Food Distributor Grasshoppers Hosts Summit 

Doctors prescribe fruits and vegetables – literally – to encourage healthy eating

Meet the Guys Who Make Local Food Affordable

Commonwealth Hosts Local Food Summit

Program prescribes produce

Fruits and Vegetables Are the Doctor’s New Orders  

Doctors write Prescription for Produce

Press Release: Innovative Wholesome Wave and Commonwealth of Kentucky Investment Helps Louisville “Food Hub” Bring Healthy Local Foods to Tens of Thousands of Public School Students 

Take two Tomatoes and Call me In the Morning 

US doctors write prescriptions for vegetables 

Doctors write Prescription for Produce

Wholesome Wave, Kentucky ag groups making $350,000 investment to expand Grasshoppers’ farm-to-schools program      

Discussion Friday: Prescribing Fruits and Vegetables

Get Fresh on Prescription for Produce

Prescription’ Fruits & Vegetables Now Available to Obese Families

June 2012

Fruit and Vegetable Prescriptions: Just What the Doctor Ordered 

In Washington, DC, Doctors Add Vegetable Prescriptions to Anti-Obesity Arsenal 

Veggie Prescriptions Really Make People Healthier   

Aspen Food and Wine: Acheson Talks Top Chef, Unibrows and Rock Stars  

Putting the “Farm” in Pharmacy

2012 March and April Grantmaking Activity: Wholesome Wave 

Wholesome Wave provides the poor with access to healthy food

US doctors write prescriptions for vegetables