Federal food assistance cuts could mean less money for Michigan’s small farmers

Baskets of vegetables rest on a table at a farmers market display at the Capitol in Lansing. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
Baskets of vegetables rest on a table at a farmers market display at the Capitol in Lansing. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL

LANSING

Alex Canepa sells vegetables at his local farmers market in Washtenaw County’s Dixboro every Friday afternoon during the spring and summer.

“You can go and get your groceries, a hot meal and just hang out and meet your neighbors – it’s good for a community to have that kind of space, to have a place where you can get together and then build social capital,” Canepa said.

He runs a hobby farm i…