Expansion

It’s Official: Watkins Farm of North Carolina joins the Fair Food Program!

Fair Food Program expansion continues apace with new crop and new state, with the help of North Carolina-based organic produce broker Happy Dirt and longtime FFP Participating Buyer Whole Foods… Farmer Randall Watkins on joining the FFP: “Having workers that feel valued and respected gives them passion and a love for what they do. It …

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A (Great) Smoky Mountain Welcome

Sunripe Certified Brands and hundreds of workers at Smoky Mountain Family Farms welcome the CIW Education Team to Tennessee! Sunripe CEO, Jon Esformes: “[CIW] is our partner in making sure that we’re meeting and exceeding the highest standards of compliance, not just with the law, but with our moral and ethical responsibility as human beings.” …

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Announcing The First Fair Food Sponsor in the Nation’s Capital!

Each Peach Market to become D.C.’s first Fair Food Sponsor, first small independent grocery to commit to groundbreaking farmworker human rights program Mt. Pleasant grocery store to support Fair Food Program, leading human rights program in U.S. agriculture WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2021 – Each Peach Market and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) will launch a …

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Welcoming Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-Op to the Fair Food Sponsor Program

Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-Op to become Maryland’s first Fair Food Sponsor, marking landmark commitment to farmworkers’ human rights The beloved neighborhood institution will support CIW’s Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program, which combats forced labor, sexual violence, and other human rights violations in U.S. agriculture TAKOMA PARK, MD – On February 1, the Takoma Park …

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Largest cut flower farm on US East Coast joins the Fair Food Program!

Bloomia — international leader in the cut flower industry with farms on four continents — brings its US greenhouse operations in King George, Virginia, into the expanding Fair Food Program… Just last week we shared news of the Fair Food Program’s expansion into a new state, as we welcomed Smoky Mountain Family Farms of Tennessee …

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