Below are links to the PowerPoint slides presented by today’s speakers addressing the topics:
– An Overview of the Food Box Program and Opportunities for Agricultural Producers to Connect with Commodity Procurement
– Panel Discussion:
What works? | What doesn’t? | How to Make it Better?
Presenters include:
* Christopher Purdy, Associate Deputy Administrator, Commodity Procurement
Program, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
* Andrew Yokom – General Manager, Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative
* Lisette Alent – Executive Director, Inland Northwest Farmers Market Association
* Emily Black – Owner/Operator of Lone Mountain Farms, LINC Board President
* Scott Thellman – President of Juniper Hill Farms
LINKS to presenter resources:
* Farmers to Families Food Box Program
* Commodity program overview
* How to become a vendor
* Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative
* Inland Northwest Farmers Market Association
* Lone Mountain Farms
* LINC Growers Cooperative
* Juniper Hill Farms