A person wearing a straw hat smiles while holding fresh produce, including beets and turnips, beside a blue bowl filled with lettuce.
Farmer Casey O'Neill of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif., holds freshly harvested turnips and beets over a tub of lettuce in May 2025. (Casey O'Neill via Bay City News)

MENDOCINO CO., 7/15/26 — The federal money that paid Mendocino County farmers to grow food for their hungry neighbors ran out at the end of May.

The Ukiah nonprofit that oversaw the program says nothing here can take its place.

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