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šAmerica is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can they build them?
In the spring of 2020, many small farms across the U.S. found themselves in a bittersweet predicament. Restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus were forcing restaurants ā major buyers for the local farms that serve urban areas ā to shut down. The loss of these key customers might have wiped out many of these local growers, if not for another COVID-19-induced phenomenon: individual shoppers started calling ā and calling ā and calling.
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