Guided by Mushrooms, a mushroom farm in Dayton, was forced to find new outlets for its products after the federal government terminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance program, or LFPA.
That program had paid Ohio farmers to distribute their food to local schools and food banks. Now, producers across the state are being forced to find other pathways for selling their products.
“I could say that that process might be coming a little bit easier for us, but probably less so for smaller farms whose market was more concentrated towards LFPA,” said Michael Goldstick, owner and sales manager for Guided by Mushrooms…