Stacy Dedring, Dutchess Outreach

“Society got a much deeper appreciation for the emergency food work being done.The appreciation for farmers as frontline workers, was something that I found really heartening. It's not just your cops, firefighters, and nurses, it's your farmers who are showing up to work every day, in very stressful environment, moving in close quarters, like not really knowing what's going on with the pandemic, but like, it's food. It's not something that's negotiable. We all need to survive. So I think moving farmers into that frontline worker designation was really heartening for me.” 

-Stacy Dedring, Dutchess Outreach