summer food program

Cans of food sit on the shelves of the food pantry at State College of Florida’s Bradenton campus. The school’s pantry has been open to students in need for the last several years.

Florida will not participate in the 2025 federal summer food program

Gabriella Paul

The program known as Sun Bucks offers eligible parents in participating states a total of $120 per child to assist with the cost of groceries over the summer months.

Customers shop at a grocery store in Mount Prospect, Ill., Friday, April 1, 2022. A USF survey found that 77 percent percent of respondents said inflation has affected their grocery spending.

State News

Florida opts out of $250 million in summer food aid for families

Gabriella Paul

The newest food benefits program under the U.S. Department of Agriculture will officially launch in the summer of 2024. The deadline for states to sign up was Jan. 1.

Just some of the piles of snack packs assembled at the Full Summer happening

WFSU Local News

Full Summer volunteers prepare thousands of snack packs for out-of-school kids

Tom Flanigan

The traditional in-person packing sessions had been on hold during the pandemic, but were back on Saturday

Bags of donated nonperishable food will await pickup by local mail carriers on Saturday

WFSU Local News

Leon County mail carriers will pick up donated food on their appointed rounds this Saturday

Tom Flanigan

The 30th Annual Stamp Out Hunger campaign is a joint effort of the National Association of Mail Carriers and Second Harvest of the Big Bend

Education

Florida's summer school food program lacks diners

Lynn Hatter

Florida Department of Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam says the state continues to struggle with getting word out that about its summer food programs.…