Local farmer pivots farm business to create firepit starters after economic toll from COVID-19
Local farmer pivots farm business to create firepit starters after economic toll from COVID-19 × Tama Matsuoka Wong (center) of Meadows & More harvests Juniper to make Wild Cedar Firestarters. PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA WOLFF Local tenant farmer Tama Matsuoka Wong has partnered with the Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space (FoHVOS) to sell wild cedar firestarters in order to maintain her farm assessment, when her business of supply restaurants with speciality ingredients took a hit due to COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, Wong farmed and foraged at the Marshall’s Corner (formerly kn...
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