VFFC announces Spread the Love extending crucial food assistance after Vermont Everyone Eats ends March 30 The Mountain Times

RUTLAND — The Vermont Everyone Eats (VEE) program, a federally-funded, pandemic recovery initiative created to help restaurants, farmers, and eaters through the economic challenges of the Covid pandemic, ends March 30, 2023. Vermont Farmers Food Center (VFFC) has served as the Rutland County hub for the program since August 2020. To fill the gap, VFFC is launching Rutland County Eats, a local initiative to continue the Everyone Eats model of free meal distribution for food insecure Rutland County residents. VFFC has secured grant funding through Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Bowse Health Trust to continue a restaurant-prepared meal distribution program for…