Some western Mass farms say new cuts in the state program that helps low-income people buy fresh produce is creating a financial crisis. Before the cuts, families with SNAP food benefits would get ...

Atlas Farm Store manager Kelly Hickey in the Deerfield farm store. Atlas Farm Store in the Deerfield. gazette file photo A big change will be coming to families who take advantage of the Healthy ...

WORCESTER ― Once the state implements cuts to the Healthy Incentives Program on Dec. 1, a move administrators deem necessary to ensure the program runs throughout the year, Maria Diaz will not be able ...

Food security advocates are seeking two funding streams to restore and maintain benefits for SNAP recipients buying healthy and locally grown food. The Massachusetts Food System Collaborative and its ...

Massachusetts families who receive food assistance also qualify for extra dollars every month they can spend on fresh, locally grown produce. But that benefit will soon be drastically reduced.

Last year, we urged Massachusetts lawmakers to reprioritize the Healthy Incentives Program. We’re pleased to see the program known as HIP will restore higher benefit caps thanks to a spending bill ...

Meghan Hastings, of Dave's Natural Garden out of Granby, talks with Thomas M. Kennedy of Northampton who was using his HIP funds to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at Grow Food Northampton's Tuesday ...