NPR segment on food prices
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Claire Morenon from the Community for Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) nonprofit in Deerfield, Massachusetts said farmers in New England are experiencing more unpredictable weather conditions like severe flooding and drought.
“Farmers are seeing more crop loss and more difficulty in building plans that they can count on throughout the season and all of that makes it more costly to grow food in our region,” Morenon said.
She said there are also larger economic systems in place that make food less affordable.
“It feels like it should not be up to individual low income people or individual small farm owners to bridge that gap,” Morenon said.
She does point out there are some ways the choices we make as individual shoppers can help, like buying directly from local farms.
“It does make a really big difference to the farmers that are stewarding land, taking care of ecosystems, growing food for our communities when people choose to buy from them,” Morenon said.
This story ran on April 22, 2026 on NPR radio.
