Bainbridge Prepares

Federal budget cuts have impacted our farmers, food banks and schools.

Our community leaders are hustling to ensure people can eat.

It doesn’t get much more elemental than that.

Farmers with signed contracts under various programs may not receive promised payments. Those who already incurred costs for infrastructure, seeds, or other inputs based on the promise of funding may face unexpected expenses, potentially jeopardizing their businesses.

Food banks have lost funding they used to purchase local fresh food grown by our farmers impacting farmer revenue. This combined with delays in dispersing funds and freezes on new contracts leave farmers in limbo, uncertain about their ability to continue with planned projects or make critical decisions for the farming season.

Addressing the problems in front of us and anticipating what we'll need to support our vulnerable populations - which is growing by the day - will take an island, and a peninsula.

Friends of the Farms is rolling up our sleeves and getting to work by leading a subcommittee on Food Security and Equity within the Access and Functional Needs Workgroup at Bainbridge Prepares.

Join us.

For more information on what you can do now, click here.