All Hands On Deck
We know that everyone will be impacted by COVID-19. Many will lose their lives; many more will suffer personal and financial hardships. As this unfolds, it is impossible to predict the long-term impacts; only to do the best we can in the moment. At A Greener World our team quickly adjusted to meet present needs: working remotely, not collecting on invoices for farmers, and completely shifting focus to support those in our orbit struggling in this new environment. See full…
COVID-19 Collected Resources for Farmers
We are compiling a list of resources for farmers who are working through challenges brought about by COVID-19. This list is constantly updated, so please check back frequently. AGW Resources COVID-19 Collected Resources—your landing page for all AGW resources related to farming during the pandemic AGW Online Shopping—connects consumers with AGW-certified products available for online order with both national and regional delivery. Make sure you’re listed, and please be in touch with me if we need to make updates to…
COVID-19 Has Farmers Hanging in the Balance: How Your Online Order Can Help
Need to stock up on food but avoiding the grocery store? Concerned about how our food supply will weather this crisis? We can help you with both. The spread of COVID-19 is having unprecedented effects on our lives and our economy. It has driven many shoppers to big box stores and large online retailers to stock up on food and supplies. This is impacting markets for independent, family-owned farms when they need our support most. With major cities, states and…
COVID-19 will be tough on farms. Here are a few ways you can help.
As COVID-19 deepens its impact, A Greener World is working to protect our staff and communities (see more about our response here), but farmers are going to need support from all of us. Now is the time to be rallying around our independent farmers. Because of this epidemic, they could see orders from restaurants and food vendors be severely restricted or indeed canceled. This is an area that causes us grave concern, as most of our certified farmers supply markets…
How AGW is Responding to COVID-19
We’ve been in touch with our team and farmers, and wanted to also share with our wider community how we are addressing the challenges that arise from COVID-19. We have suspended travel since March 5 and will be reviewing this decision regularly. As an organization we are respectful of our team members and many stakeholders’ varying health risks, and recognize it would be reckless to travel at a time when we are not certain of the location or spread of…
