Summer ’18 Quarterly Resource Spotlight
A Guide for Farmers Who Want to Supply Low-Income Communities While Maintaining Financial Sustainability
This manual offers strategies and insights to help you run a small farm business that supports the needs of low-income communities.
As much as farmers want to support the community, the community needs our solidarity. About 50 million Americans are food insecure, with half of those individuals living in food deserts, where it’s difficult or impossible to access affordable, healthy food. This lack of access to life-giving food has dire consequences for people.
This manual is drawn from: (1) our experience growing Soul Fire Farm, a family farm working to end racial and economic injustice in the food system; (2) the experiences of our allied farms in the struggle for food justice; and (3) extensive research on resources and best practices for serving low-income communities in the local food and agricultural sector.