“We survive without outside income [from a second job], but we don’t have health insurance—it is one of the hard things for small farmers.” One prominent need, quoted above and voiced at the Monadnock Region’s 2010 Farm Focus Group discussion, is access to affordable and dependable health care insurance for farmers and farm workers. However, [...]
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Really Know Your Farmer? How is Their Health Insurance Coverage?
Posted in Farms, tagged Cooperatives, Farmers' Health Cooperative, Health Care, NH Eat Local Month, NH Farms on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Do you REALLY know your farmer?
Posted in Farms, Food Security, Sustainability, tagged Food Solutions New England, NH Eat Local Month, Tom Vilsack on August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, recently wrote in a blog post “Do you know your farmer?… The hard work that goes into producing our nation’s food supply is being taken for granted.” I couldn’t agree more. But it’s not just their hard work, in terms of labor, that goes unrecognized. It’s the hard work of [...]
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