'It's really scary': Providence Farm Collective fights back after losing major USDA grant

'It's really scary': Providence Farm Collective fights back after losing major USDA grant

A $750,000 federal grant that supported a Western New York farm program has been cut by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Providence Farm Collective is fighting back.The nonprofit organization received a notice last month that its grant for the Incubator Farm Program was being terminated. The USDA cited the programs classification as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, which the Trump administration now considers di…