Strong partnerships are essential for the successful coordination of locally grown food for food as medicine programming. Partners are essential and necessarily focus on the multitude of implementation tasks from coordinating food production, moving food from farm to aggregation site, assembling food for participants along with recipes and tools, and then orchestrating the demand, distribution and evaluation for the consumers and patients. Learn more from our panelists of farmers and value chain coordinators about best practices in working with local farmers to implement programming. We will share some of the successes and pitfalls for these types of programs and invite attendees to share their experiences as well.
Brandon Query-Bey, Lost River Market and Deli
Brandon is the Healthy Initiatives Coordinator and the Management Team Leader at Lost River Market and Deli in Paoli, IN, where he has been working for almost five years. Before working at the market, he and his wife and were brought to Orange County through an apprenticeship at Living Roots Farm and Sustainability Center and then went on to manage their own mini farm where they sold produce at a local farmers' market.
brandonquery123@gmail.com
Pam Rieke, Food and Growers Association
Pam is the president of the Food and Growers Association in Batesville, IN where she has been an active member for several years. She has a deep passion for local healthy food access for everyone and recently began volunteer work at Our Harvest Cooperative, a produce box subscription in the Cincinnati area.
pamelarieke@gmail.com
Armonda Riggs, Four Flags Farm
Armonda started her farming career in 2016 in Iowa where she sold produce through the Iowa Food Cooperative. In 2017 she moved back to Indiana and began her diversified farm, Four Flags Farm, on 30 acres in Greene County Indiana. She was a vendor at the Bedford and Bloomfield Markets in Indiana until 2019. She has since been a seasonal vendor at the Linton Farmers Market in Linton, IN and now sells produce through the Rose Hill Farm Stop in Bloomington, IN as well. Armonda loves her farming career, most days. Being a farmer allows her to create a lifestyle from which she can help her community by producing great tasting as well as great for them products while being a good steward of her land. Follow her on Facebook or IG @FourFlagsFarm.
info@fourflagsfarm.com