CFS works to build a robust local food system so that residents can access healthy and culturally relevant foods, and small-scale farmers can sustain their businesses while protecting the environment. Every week, it provides fresh produce to students in 15 Montgomery County public schools whose families need food assistance. Offering the same to uninsured residents, it partners with clinics and nutritionists to supplement produce with education and one-on-one counseling. By sourcing produce from socially disadvantaged farmers across the county, CFS forms a key income stream for them. It also started the county’s first farm produce aggregation hub, creating the infrastructure that small farms need to sell bulk produce to food banks and pantries. Investing over $330,000 (and counting) in local regenerative farms, CFS allows food-insecure neighbors to access healthy food.
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