Coronavirus is threatening US farms' survival. But you can make a difference | Adrienne Matei

Community-supported agriculture programs benefit at-risk farmers most as the pandemic underlines the value of local food systemsFresh farm produce is healthy and delicious. Most of the time, that's reason enough to sign up for a community-supported agriculture program (CSA), a system in which one pays to regularly receive goodie bags of whatever happens to be flourishing in nearby farmers' fields, often along with optional local meat and dairy add-ons. Now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, bolstering local food systems is especially urgent - and there's more at stake than just really good tomatoes.Local farmers have proven more reliable in a crisis than the industrial food supply chain Continue reading...