- Title:
- Farming in the Time of Pandemic
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Description:
- This project is based off of oral interviews, recorded and transcribed, with Thurston County farmers: Ann Petricola and Joel Baranick of Ellis Creek Farm and Kevin Jensen of Riverbend Ranch. The research essay explores the immediate trends seen in small farms during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. In a time of great uncertainty and fear, small farms across the US suddenly saw a spike in interest for direct to consumer sales while also facing processing bottlenecks and financial uncertainty. The experiences of Ellis Creek Farm and Riverbend Ranch paint a picture of small farms as safe, flexible, and community oriented sources of food and highlight some of the specific challenges they have faced during this time.
- Subjects:
- Farms, Small Local Foods Food Secuirty Covid-19 (Disease), Oral History
- Location:
- United States—Washington (State)—Pierce County
- Source:
- University of Washington Tacoma Community History Project
- Source Identifier:
- chp2020-01
- Format:
- cpd
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