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well local growers and producers have done in accepting the challenges of getting their product to customers during the pandemic.”
And customers, he said, have been very supportive.
“Even without the pandemic, this is what supporting the local food system should be like -- high demand and lots of support,” Holbrook said.
He said he views the Covid-19 crisis as “a wakeup call” that the nation’s food system is not as durable as many people suppose.
“The country is closing the borders so workers can’t get in,” Holbrook said. “We have one little disruption in the food system, and grocery stores have shortages.”
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At Windflower Farm in Cambridge, Ted and Jan Blomgren market their produce through nine community-supported agriculture groups in New York City as well as under several United Way contracts to supply fresh produce to food pantries in the city. They had 1,150 CSA shareholders in the city last year and have three “drop and go” sites for food pantries that require minimal handling by the farm.
After 15 to 20 years in operation, Windflower Farm’s core groups of member-customers are well established, and they continue to have high demand for memberships even in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, Ted Blomgren said.
“When we opened the first four sites” for the
season, he said, “the enrollments came in really fast.”
But many of the CSA groups in the city that buy their produce have distribution sites in schools and churches that are now closed because of the pandemic.
“Before opening these sites, we may need to wade through a bureaucracy that’s also shut down,” Blomgren said.
Because of Covid-19, Blomgren said Windflower Farm will stop offering open, farmers- market-style distribution to its CSA customers. But he has been reluctant to deliver pre-boxed shares in new cardboard boxes every week, which
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