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Officials with the USDA toured Midwest Food Bank as the Farm to Family Food Box becomes a lifeline to many. DAVID PROEBER BLOOMINGTON — Sarah Frey sees and appreciates the irony when she looks out at her once-small family farm that became a big player in the specialty crops industry. “This place I’d spent my entire life trying to escape from, in 2020, it became my escape,” said Frey, the founder of Frey Farms in southern Illinois and “Pumpkin Queen of America” in the words of the New York Times. Frey was a keynote speaker at the annual Illinois Specia...

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By Christopher Heimerman & Illinois Press Association • Jan 8, 2021 Sarah Frey sees and appreciates the irony when she looks out at her once-small family farm that became a big player in the specialty crops industry. “This place I’d spent my entire life trying to escape from, in 2020, it became my escape,” said Frey, the founder of Frey Farms in southern Illinois and “Pumpkin Queen of America” in the words of the New York Times. Frey was the keynote speaker Thursday at the annual Illinois Specialty Crop Conference, put on virtually by the Illinois Specialty Growe...