The farm community is responding with heart to the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmer donations of milk, meat, eggs and produce are helping individuals and food banks in the increasingly difficult job of feeding needy families. Many of those families weren’t even close to needy two short months ago.
People who aren’t needy, who are able to weather the pandemic economics, are making it a point to buy from their local farm markets and farmer CSAs.
Staffers here at Lancaster Farming get emails almost daily about the ways farmers and consumers are helping each other. Every email holds a story and we’re happy to share those stories. Please keep them coming. Here are recaps of some of the most recent items that have reached our inboxes.