CT Foodshare President Jason Jakubowski, a West Hartford resident, said the Local Food Purchase Assistance 2025 Cooperative Agreement program allowed the investment of nearly $3 million with local farmers to distribute more than 1 million meals to people across the state. 

By Viktoria Sundqvist, CTNewsJunkie.com 

Recent cuts to a federal food program will have a severe negative impact on numerous people throughout Connecticut, including farmers, families and nonprofit agencies like Connecticut Foodshare, officials and local farmers said this week.

“The cuts don’t just affect budgets. They affect real farms, real families,” said Dakota Rudloff, owner of River Ridge Farm, during a news conference at Connecticut Foodshare in Wallingford on Tuesday. “We need our leaders to understand the real impact of these decisions and restore this critical funding.”

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