An urgent need to purchase food directly from producers - The Leavenworth Times

An urgent need to purchase food directly from producers - The Leavenworth Times

Recent pauses in government grant funding — which helps food banks buy food from local farmers — have left many growers facing tough challenges. Growers had purchased machinery and planted crops in anticipation of a profitable harvest; they had purchased equipment to help them process the crops such as freezers and cool storage; some had taken out loans on buildings and vehicles to distribute their products.They began this in anticipation of fun…