March 7, 2020, Maupin Civic Center. SWA sponsored the event, and the Columbia Gorge Food Bank facilitated it. It launched the South Wasco Specialty Farmers collective, which brought together seven specialty farmers (including “second farmers” who focus only on production), and set the stage for the Gorge Grown Mobile Market; a pilot project at The Dalles Farmers’ Market (which later moved to its permanent home in Tygh Valley as the South Wasco Farmers Market); and sourcing locally grown produce to the Local Rhoots food delivery service in Hood River.
