Recommendation Status: In Progress
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Recommendation: By providing funding opportunities for on-farm, on-site (for distributors), or community-held storage facilities, aggregation and bulk order fulfillment capacity could improve, enabling smaller growers to meet the larger volumes needed by grocers, both cooperatives and chains.
Current work happening on this recommendation: In 2023, the state of New Hampshire was allotted over $2 million from the United States Department of Agriculture through the department's Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program, a program designed to build resilience in the middle-of-the-supply-chain in the Granite State. Part of the RFSI program funds were used to fund two grant programs, in which 23 projects were funded to support the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, or the distribution of local agricultural products. Learn more here
Craving context? This recommendation is included in the Grocery Stores & Food Cooperatives brief, part of the NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.
Read the Grocery Stores & Food Cooperatives brief here
