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"Throughout the summer in the Golden, Colorado, area, you might see a big box
truck full of local fresh vegetables hosting a pay-what-you can farmer’s
market. Affectionately called Chuck, GoFarm’s mobile market truck travels to
low-income neighborhoods, schools, retirement homes, mobile home communities
and more. It offers local produce that GoFarm sources from 80 to 90 farms every
season, including small-scale urban farms, large family-owned farms and
beginning farmers going through their incubator program.
“Our vision is a strong, resilient, environmentally sustainable and equitable
local food system,” says Virginia Ortiz, GoFarms executive director.
Ortiz sees GoFarm’s role as a hub that takes care of the logistics of
supporting small farms and feeding the community.
Building community partnerships is a crucial element, and GoFarm works with
other food access organizations such as Hunger Free Golden and JeffCo Food
Policy Council to reach more people and create a broader base of resources.
Founded in 2014, GoFarm started with its local food share program (essentially
a CSA curated from multiple farms). More than a decade later, it has become an
organization that trains and develops beginning farmers and creatively tackles
the problem of how to get affordable, fresh food to the community. As a
nonprofit, it is able to fundraise for grants and donations to support its
programming and supplement that with revenue generated through produce sales.
GoFarm’s incubator farmer program gives beginning farmers access to a quarter
acre of land for the two-year duration of the program. The farmers receive all
the training they need to plan, plant and manage a farm — regardless of their
background."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
