Maine farmers are showing their resilience and leaning in to the COVID-19 crisis.
In addition to learning how to get food to customers in new ways and reinventing their business models overnight, farmers are also having to continually troubleshoot health and sanitation.notes that he and his wife, Gabrielle, have been up until past midnight every night going over and over processes and contingencies:
They are currently working on organizing their farm crew into smaller groups within a group, so that certain people only come into contact with other people on a regular basis. , believes that the reason Maine farmers are adapting so quickly is because of their social networks. Maine farms are tightly networked, connected with each other and their broader communities through social ties. They are also. These features — small- and medium-size farms, growing a diverse array of crops — are critical to Maine’s food system. But it is the community ties that are revealed in a crisis.
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