CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
Columbia Community Connection, headquartered in The Dalles, Oregon offers honest, relevant, and positively focused local news to folks across the Mid-Columbia region.
Our podcast, the CCCNews Podcast, invited guests, journalists, and other storytellers to help us tell the stories that bring us closer together in this community we call home.
You can read our content and learn more about us at CCCNews.com
CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
CCCNews Podcast: Gorge Farmer Collective Puts Food Power Back in Growers’ Hands
On the latest CCCNews Podcast, Executive Director and co-founder Kiara Kashubs described how the Gorge Farmer Collective started in March 2020, when farmers suddenly lost access to restaurants and markets. What began with five farms experimenting with an online marketplace has since expanded to more than 35 producers serving families, schools, food banks, and restaurants across Hood River, White Salmon, The Dalles, Mosier, and Lyle.