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“Business owners are entrepreneurs, and so the challenge of changing our business models is kind of what we do and what makes any small business owner successful,” says Wendy Brugh. Wendy owns Dry Ridge Farm in Madison County with her husband, Graham Brugh. Last year, they scaled up their egg production so they could supply Asheville’s booming restaurant community with pastured eggs. Now they have needed to rethink how to move 700 dozen eggs each Chue and Tou Lee of Lee’s One Fortune Farm week. “Yes, it’s hard,” says Wendy. “I don’t want to say I enjoy it, but there is an element of being excited about the challenge. We have a product that people want right now, it’s just a matter of me finding the best way to get it to them.” Although some of The Culinary Gardener’s CSA customers are excited to have access to high-end produce, Evan doesn’t see the CSA or online marketplace as a longterm plan. He says that, in general, customers aren’t willing or able to pay restaurant prices for specialty produce. Coordinating a CSA while providing restaurants with small amounts of product as they reopen is a challenge. But Evan is determined not to give up. “I’m not going to quit and I’m not going to let this be the thing that ends me and my business,” he says. Help ASAP continue to support farmers through COVID-19 with a donation to the Appalachian Grown Farmer Relief Fund. Find out more at asapconnections.org. Photo: Camilla Calnan Photography Support Our Farms. Support Our Communities. ASAP’s Appalachian Grown Farmer Relief Fund is addressing unprecedented emergency needs due to COVID-19. This strategic fund makes these grants and initiatives possible. • Appalachian Farms Feeding Families gets fresh, healthy food to people who need it—while also fairly compensating farmers. (Read more about this program on pages 34-35) • Immediate needs grants and one-on-one technical assistance support farmers as they pivot their business models. • Farmers market grants help to meet public health requirements. • Relief pricing on Appalachian Grown–branded materials helps to offset the cost of increased packaging requirements. Sustain ASAP’s work to support farmers and the community during COVID-19 with a donation to the Appalachian Grown Farmer Relief Fund. Find out more at asapconnections.org. 18 ASAP asapconnections.org
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