Harvesting Community
PHOTOS AND CAPTION BY Hector Amezcua
Shoua Yang ( left ) and his daughter , Jennifer Yang , of Stockton ’ s M & S Produce unload watermelons at the Micro Farmer Crop Buyback Program on July 16 at the Sacramento Cultural and Linguistic Center . Due to the COVID-19 crisis , many microfarmers from the Southeast Asian community lost their restaurant and farmers market clients , so the program , hosted by the Asian Business Institute and Resource Center and the Community Alliance with Family Farmers , purchases up to $ 1,000 of the farmers ’ crops that would have been sold to those clients and distributes them to families who are experiencing food insecurity . Volunteer Lola Quasebarth ( lower right photo ), who works for California FarmLink , organizes bags of produce .
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