When Tammi Riedl founded the Gold Country Food HUB in 2021, she wasn’t starting from scratch—she was advancing decades of lived experience in organic farming, community-based food access, and local food entrepreneurship. Her early work at Lincoln Hills Farm shaped her understanding of the challenges small-scale, regenerative growers face: processing bottlenecks, rising production costs, inconsistent market access, and a lack of regional infrastructure built for farms under 20

The Gold Country Food HUB has received a $100,000 grant through the USDA's Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program, an initiative that invests millions to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, to provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, to support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, fair wages, and new and safe job opportunities. This grant is especially important as budget cuts have i