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FARM-TO-TABLE
DINING TAKES ON
NEW MEANING
AMID PANDEMIC
Eric Pray is used to shipping seafood all over the
country. But since the coronavirus took hold, he
has shifted his focus closer to home — selling
lobsters from a homemade tank in his garage.
Pray, of Portland, Maine, is one of hundreds of
fishermen, farmers and food producers who
have shifted to a direct-to-consumer model
amid the virus outbreak. The pandemic has
stressed and sometimes disrupted supply
chains, shuttered restaurants and changed
the way consumers buy food, leaving some
producers scrambling for a new way to reach
their customers.
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