Innovation and tenacity: New ASAP report shows farmers faced big challenges in 2020 Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times
ASHEVILLE - The pandemic upended months of business planning and decimated restaurant sales for local farmers.
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The other part of the message: resilience.
In what should come as a surprise to virtually no one, this year s survey was heavily influenced by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local farms.
Of the 208 regional farmers who took part in the survey, 52% said they had access to fewer local market outlets for their products last year, a 41% increase over the previous year. That number is influenced by closed markets, delayed openings and limits on the number of vendors
ASHEVILLE - The pandemic upended months of business planning and decimated restaurant sales for local farmers.
That s part of the message from a recent report from The Local Food Research Center, a program of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, which annually surveys farms in Western North Carolina and some surrounding counties.
The other part of the message: resilience.
In what should come as a surprise to virtually no one, this year s survey was heavily influenced by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local farms.
Of the 208 regional farmers who took part in the survey, 52% said they had access to fewer local market outlets for their products last year, a 41% increase over the previous year. That number is influenced by closed markets, delayed openings and limits on the number of vendors