Fort Belknap receiving grant for farm-to-table program

Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is one of five Montana reservations that will be participating in a federal grant to bring food raised on the reservation to the dinner tables of people living there.

Billings-based Native American Development Corp. announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration awarded the community development organization an $800,000 three-year grant to be used on Montana reservations.

The grant is part of Health and Human Services’ Health Foods Financing Initiative.

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