and also reveals how messed up the USDA is.
It's appalling that our local produce aggregator and distributor, FEED Sonoma, with existing relationships with many small-scale farmers, was passed over, and a grant awarded to a personal care products distributor. What?!?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/22/trumps-signature-effort-direct-farm-surplus-needy-families-abruptly-withdraws-large-contract-amid-criticism-programs-rollout/
The article also includes a good summary of the situation with the food supply chain nationally, about which I hope to write more soon. Getting my head around anything has been difficult these past ten weeks.
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