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Reflecting on the pandemic from farms to the farmer’s market
“Farming is always a gamble,” suggests farmer Alex Weiser, who’s a fixture at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. Workers never know what a harvest will look like.
By Evan Kleiman • • 7m Listen“Farming is always a gamble,” suggests farmer Alex Weiser, who’s a fixture at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. Workers never know what a harvest will look like. Weiser and other vendors at the Farmer’s Market — Leticia Garcia, Megan Strom, Romeo Coleman, and Sherry Mandel — summed up the pandemic and its economic effects in one word.
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6 of 6Transformation: cooking, eating, and lending a hand one year into the pandemic- 0:00Beats to bowls: bringing vegan food to Leimert Park
- 9:13League of Kitchens: global female superheroes at the stove
- 21:34‘In the Weeds’: Koreatown darling Spoon by H’s roller coaster ride
- 32:19LA Regional Food Bank stepped in when many Angelenos needed aid for the first time during shutdown
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