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Q&A with Bill Green, Executive Director of The Common Market Southeast

Bill explains how the USDA’s Local Food Purchase Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) and Local Food for Schools (LFS) positively impacted The Common Market Southeast and its ecosystem of family farmers and community partners.  While the programs are ending, they helped catalyze the local food distributor’s mission of building small farmer capacity. How was Common Market Southeast using LFPA and/or LFS funding? Were there specific programs you were able to create or expand?  The LFPA and LFS programs have had a catalytic effect on The Common Market’s mission in the Southeast, and as proof of concept of how intentional investment in small to midsize regional producers is vital to the long-term…