Thousands Support Local Economy at Meet the Farmers
WCAI, Elspeth Hay | April 24, 2025
When people talk about reasons to buy local fruits and veggies, they often bring up flavor. A tomato from the grocery store doesn’t taste anything like a tomato fresh from the garden. But Francie Randolph of Sustainable Cape says there’s a big health difference, too.
“The thing about these… Read more
Thousands Support Local Economy at Meet the Farmers
Lower Cape News, Anna Westerberg | April 4, 2025
After a post-pandemic hiatus, Meet The Farmers gathered visitors and animals alike in Harwich for all things local. Smooth honey, crisp produce, newly caught seafood and pasture raised meat made their way from farm to table through 40 vendors and almost 2000 visitors. But what is the state of agriculture on Cape Cod today, and how… Read more
Food is Medicine on the Outer Cape
WCAI, Elspeth Hay | January 9, 2025
On a sunny morning in early winter, Melissa Lynch hurries around a commercial kitchen in North Truro filling up bags. “We have butternut squash, Delicata squash, golden beets, red beets. We have Bravo radishes, Dinado radishes, Eastham turnips. And still to go in, are… Read more
Food Really is Medicine
Lower Cape News, Teresa Martin | December 16, 2024
According to both Sustainable CAPE and Outer Cape Health Care, the linkage between food and health has long been well established. For the eight diagnoses – which includes illness such as cardio-vascular issues and diabetes – targeted by this program, food truly has… Read more
A Farmer Educator in Truro gets kids excited about fruits, veggies, & voting
WCAI, Elspeth Hay | October 17, 2024
For years now, farmer Stephanie Rein of the non-profit Sustainable Cape in Truro has been teaching kids about growing food. She does this in multiple elementary schools on the Outer Cape, and when she first started…Read more
Sustainable CAPE’s Harvester Highlights: A Win-Win for Everyone Involved
Edible Cape Cod, Andrea Pyenson | August 17, 2024
Sustainable CAPE launched Harvester Highlights, entering its fifth year, to encourage the awareness and purchase of local food. Using funds from a Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources grant, private funding, and business sponsorships, the organization purchases fresh produce from different Cape Cod growers…Read more
Farmers Market Week Kicks Off with Song and Dance
The Provincetown Independent, Aden Chote | August 7, 2024
TRURO – The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers performed here on Aug. 5 in front of a crowd that included the market’s usual Monday shoppers along with Mass. Dept. of Agricultural Resources Commissioner Ashley Randle. The event was organized to celebrate both…Read more
Make a Date with a Massachusetts Farmers Market
The New England, Yankee Editors | July 31, 2024
…On Cape Cod, the Truro Educational Farmers Market will hold a ceremony on August 5 to mark National Farmers Market Week with MDAR Commissioner Ashley Randle and featuring the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers. The theme will be…Read more
PSA – Farmers Market
Lower Cape TV | July 2024
Farmer markets across Cape Cod support the local economy and local environment — and offer great tasting local food too….. Watch the video
Lessons Learned: What it (Really) Takes to Support Effective Community-Clinical Partnerships to Improve Health Related Social Needs
Community Care Cooperative, Kim Prendergast, Grace Akor & Tatiana Torres | May 20, 2024
Since 2020, C3 has been implementing the Flexible Services Program, a nutrition and housing program made available by MassHealth (Medicaid) through a Section 1115 demonstration waiver. This program allows C3 to pilot evidence-based approaches that…. Read more
Cape Cod Current with Francie Randolph, Founding Director of Sustainable CAPE
MVY Radio, Joe Stickles | March 17, 2024
MVYRADIO Reporter Joe Stickles interviews Francie Randolph – Founding Director of Sustainable Cape…. Listen here
Eating Our Way to (and through) the Truro Farmers’ Market
Truro Chamber of Commerce | August 2022
…I first noticed signs snaking around the market’s center in sequence, and then I remembered someone telling me how this particular market was based on educating children. The colorful signs are compliments of a relationship between the Truro Public Library and Sustainable CAPE’s Children’s Community Garden Group, and… Read more
Doctor’s Orders: Eat Your Fruits & Veggies
Edible Cape Cod, Andrea Pyenson | Fall 2021
When doctors advise patients to eat their fresh fruits and vegetables, it is usually a recommendation, delivered more emphatically at some times that nothers. This summer, when Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) physicians advised some patients to eat fruits & vegetables, it could be a prescription, bolstered by weekly CSA-type bags from the Truro Farmers’ Market. This was thanks to the Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program, a joint effort by Sustainable CAPE and Outer Cape Health Services, aimed at … Read more
Cape Cod Healthcare and Sustainable CAPE
CCHC | June 18, 2021
Hear from Sustainable CAPE – Center for Agricultural Preservation & Education founder Francie Randolph as she speaks to how a recent donation helped to support a new Fruit and Vegetable Prescription program intended to provide nutritional food access to seniors on the Outer Cape… Watch video
Culture Chat with Francie Randolph
Mass Cultural Council, Anita Walker | April 22, 2020
This time we chatted with artist Francie Randolph, Founding Director of Sustainable CAPE – Center for Agricultural Preservation & Education, based in Truro. Sustainable CAPE incorporates children’s artwork into both school and farmers’ market programming. In response… Watch video
Project Gratitude
Edible Cape Cod, Susan Fernald | June 24, 2019
When it came to the attention of Francie Randolph, Sustainable CAPE’s Founding Director, that more than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans experience ongoing food insecurity, she was compelled to act. She learned that 1.7 million veterans live in low-income households and that… Read more
6 Cape Women Named Unsung Heroines
Cape Cod Times, Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | June 22, 2017
Six Cape Cod women were honored Wednesday by the state as 2017 “Unsung Heroines,” according to the Commission on the Status of Women. Lynda Allen, executive director of Crystal Garden Children’s Learning Center in Hyannis, who was nominated by state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, has established a.... Read more
Fruit and veggie prescription pilot yields benefits
Cape Cod Times, Cynthia McCormick | April 27, 2017
"Dozens of people across the Cape may receive prescriptions for vegetables instead of pills this summer with the planned expansion of a pilot project that has doctors sending approximately nine patients to a farmer’s market last year..." Read more
Farmers as FARMacies: FLAVORx expands
Edible Cape Cod, Michelle Koch | April 21, 2017
"Prescriptions for peppers, berries and peas? Summer 2017 will be the second run of FLAVORx, when Emerald physicians prescribe freshly harvested vegetables and fruit as part of a multi-faceted approach to increase patient wellness..." Read more
Cape doctor prescribes shopping at a farmer's market
WCAI, Heather Goldstone | March 20, 2017
"We all know that we’d be healthier if we ate more fruits and vegetables... But few of us actually do anything about it. But would that change if you actually got a prescription that covered the cost of fresh, locally-grown produce? That was the question at the heart of a recent pilot project on Cape Cod, called FLAVORx...." Read more
Women acknowledge change-makers
Wicked Local Cape Cod, Lee Roscoe | March 9, 2017
Sustainable CAPE Executive Director Francie Randolph was among the ‘Women Making Waves’ honored by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod… Read more
Fresh fruits & vegetables turned his life around
CapeCod.com, Glenn Ritt | March 8, 2017
"The 10-week FLAVORx study measuring the impact of a whole food, plant-based diet on health, has now concluded and medical director Kumara Sidhartha, MD, MPH of Emerald Physicians is immersed in analyzing and documenting the statistical results. But for at least one participant, the results are already crystal clear..." Read more
These prescriptions are for vegetables – not pills
Cape Cod Health News, Glenn Ritt | February 1, 2017
"Francie Randolph is an artist with two degrees from Harvard University. Gus Schumacher is a former Under Secretary of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton. Kumara Sidhartha, MD is medical director of Emerald Physicians...[T]ogether they are forging an alliance to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to more Cape Codders, especially those who cannot access or afford them..." Read more
‘Always add the greens last’
Cape Cod Health News, Glenn Ritt | February 1, 2017
“‘Let’s make sure to balance our sugar with protein and fiber,’ Nicole Cormier, RD, LDN explains to her attentive audience...Cormier was meeting with 18 selected patients of Emerald Physicians who participated in a recent 12-week pilot project that prescribed farmers’ market fresh fruits and vegetables….” Read more
Feeding Cape Codders one garden at a time
Cape Cod Health News, Glenn Ritt | February 1, 2017
“An agricultural fair, a children’s garden, farmers in the school, a coalition of farmers markets, historic harvest gardens and a collaboration called FLAVORx… Welcome to Sustainable CAPE.…” Read more
New England immigrant farmers cultivate market gardens
Let’s Talk About Food, | August 30, 2016
“The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) recently gave a Farmers Market Promotion (FMPP) grant to Sustainable Cape in Truro, MA to build capacity at farmers markets on the Lower Cape. Hardworking immigrant farmers such as Dgree and Bhala (pictured here), refugees from Nepal, are benefiting from this in immeasurable ways…” Read more
Farmers markets get grants to grow on
Cape Cod Times, | October 7, 2015
“Sustainable CAPE, the Truro-based Center for Agricultural Preservation and Education, received $99,912 to expand its farm-to-school and local outreach programs and form a coalition of farmers markets…” Read more
Farmers’ market values
New York Times, Mark Bittman | August 5, 2014
“It’s clear to me – after… recent conversations with… Francie Randolph (who runs Sustainable CAPE and founded the Truro market last year), and others – that a few key improvements could make it easier for farmers and markets to thrive.…” Read more