Harvest season is in full swing. Nowhere is this more apparent than the local farmers’ markets, brimming with colorful produce of nutritious variety. Better yet, patrons have more than a month to continue enjoying Carbondale’s market. “It’s my favorite market,“ said Guy Borden, who established Borden Farms in Delta with his wife in 1996. Borden […]
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Food stamps meets farm to table
Food assistance programs have come a lonnnnnng way, Baby. Today, recognizing that food deficits hit many of us in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways—COVID, anyone?—federal and regional nutrition assistance programs have evolved to support more people with more dignity and more agency. Physical paper food stamps, launched in 1939, connected the unemployed and impoverished with vouchers […]