Louisiana will receive $9.5 million to test a model encouraging SNAP households to buy fruits and vegetables. The model is called an electronic healthy incentives pilot (eHIP). SNAP participants ...

Vegetables planted in May must be able to take the extreme heat of summer. High temperatures can reduce the vigor and production of many vegetables. Tomatoes set fewer fruit, snap beans produce ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has launched a program to encourage SNAP recipients to buy more fresh fruits and vegetables. According to DCFS ...

Americans are not getting close to eating enough fruits and vegetables ... People do barely any better on vegetables, getting 1.4 servings a day in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Dakota on ...