COVID-19 Farmer Stories: Better Together CSA
Farmers have always been reliant on friends and neighbors to help out during hard times. With the COVID-19 pandemic shifting market outlets, halting sales to schools and restaurants, and drastically changing the landscape of local farmers markets, members of the Rio Grande Farmers Coalition jumped to action to create an aggregated, farmer-run Community Supported […]
Young farmers and farmers of color have been shut out of federal assistance during the pandemic (Washington Post)
This article is reposted and translated from the original article published in the Washington Post on July 16, 2020. Photo: Melina Mara / The Washington Post The federal government’s PPP and CFAP relief programs leave out beginning farmers even as the coronavirus decimates their primary sales outlets By Laura Reiley, Washington Post Talk to young […]