By Michelle Hughes and Katherine Un
Frustrated. Anxious. Fearful. These are the words we’re hearing from our farmers, staff, partner organization leadership, government employees and funders over the past couple of weeks. We’ve moved very quickly from a place of optimistic uncertainty into a mode of defense and protection for everything we care about. We’re adjusting to a new normal that’s to come in 2025, knowing that our uphill battle to find ways to create equity in our food and agriculture system is about to become even more difficult. Simultaneously, we remind ourselves that broken doesn’t mean hopeless.
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