Last week we received an email from one of our partner families asking us to help them understand “why is the price of local, organic milk so high?”
At Farmers To You we provide your comments and questions directly to the farmers and producers, so we reached out to Larson Farm and Creamery for more information and we would like to share this exchange with you.
I have a confession to make. Sometimes I can take the incredible bounty of our farmers and small producers for granted. This is not because I don’t understand the time and labor spent growing food, raising animals or stirring together ingredients for bread or pies. The reason could be because this time of year there is an astounding volume of cherry tomatoes, summer squash, kale and other greens coming through our Farmers To You hub each week.
Many of us are concerned about our neighbors, in particular the most vulnerable members of our community, and we seek ways to help those who are food insecure. Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief and food rescue organization, reports that nearly 100 percent of food banks are serving more people in need than usual during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To help ease this burden, Farmers To You wants to remind you of ways you can partner with us to meet the needs of people who need food around our hub in central Vermont
A dear friend sent me a story the other day. Here is how it went:
There was a farmer who grew excellent, quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.
“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
After a stressful several months and a lot of time in our homes, many of us have cabin fever. At the same time, many are still cautious about nonessential travel right now, especially for those who may be at higher risk of complications related to Covid-19. However, if you are one of those people just itching to head out on summer vacation, you are not alone.
