AmeriCorps VISTA Creates Connections

As Value Chain AmeriCorps VISTA for the International Rescue Committee, my goal is to build networks between viable agricultural producers, value-added and culinary producers, and retail markets. I aim to develop a streamlined process for purchasing local products, as well as trainings and toolkits for value-chain coordination. A value chain not only generates economic opportunity for producers, sustainably strengthens the local food ecosystem and allows communities/consumers to form personal connections to their food."