A New Farmer for City Market: Lorenzo’s UrbanGreens
By Meg Klepack, Outreach & Local Food Manager
City Market helped train a dozen future farmers last summer, participating in the UVM Farmer Training Program. We hosted three groups of these students here at the Co-op to learn how to get into wholesale markets and discuss customer demand for local food.
Working with these students was inspiring. I knew we were making a long-term investment, one whose return might come one day in the form of fresh local veggies, meats, grains, or cheese for our shelves. But I really had no idea that we would see tangible results so soon. Just six months after the program, our investment landed local microgreens on our produce shelves.