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During these trying times, when economies around the world are falling, we can avoid buying luxurious things like designer bags, new gadgets, and expensive clothes, but we all need to buy food.

Since the community quarantine began in the Philippines, online food shops that spring up like mushrooms have been our best friends.

While we can now easily buy ready-to-eat foods, we often forget our local farmers who are also having a hard time coping up with the effects of the pandemic.

Luckily, these websites have tied up with local farmers from different parts of the Philippines to sell fresh vegetables and fruits that can be delivered straight to your home.

Sadiwa

Source: _sadiwa (IG)

Sadiwa, an all-women initiative to help the farmers of Cordillera, allows you to buy freshly-harvest strawberries, strawberry and blueberry jams, and lemons that can be delivered on your doorsteps.

Sadiwa also sells single-original coffee beans from Benguet, Sagada, and Kalinga that are perfect for the cold “Ber” months.

To order, go to their Instagram page: _sadiwa.

Sessions Groceries

Farmers in Cordillera often make the news when they are throwing vegetables due to oversupply.

To address this problem, the farm-to-table app Sessions Groceries was created to help farmers on their livelihood.

Sessions Groceries sells a wide range of products from tuba, Benguet tomatoes to Ilocos Region's buri baskets to ube cheese pandesal.

To order, you may download Sessions groceries app on Apple and Android.

eKadiwa

The Department of Agriculture partners with the private sector to launch an online marketing platform that connects producers and agripreneurs with consumers called eKadiwa.

eKadiwa sells different kinds of fruits and vegetables. They also sell meat, pork, poultry, seafood, and other health and wellness products.

To order, just visit their website on ekadiwa.da.gov.ph.

Kaboghayan

Another farm-to-city initiative is the Kaboghayan, which delivers products from different provinces in the country to Manila.

Aside from farmers, Kaboghayan also sells products from different cooperatives which range from fresh milk to pure and wild honey.

Visit Kaboghayan's Facebook page to know more about their delivery schedule.

Sustainable Sagada

Sagada is not just a place for brokenhearted people but a community of farmers.

Since the city was closed because of the pandemic, Sustainable Sagada helps sell the city's products like pots, oranges, and persimmons.

Aside from selling, Sustainable Sagada also helped jeepney drivers who can't temporarily lose their job.

To order, visit Sustainable Sagada's Facebook page to know the price and delivery schedule of their products.

In these trying times, it's hard to be unselfish when all of us are suffering.

But we want to move forward as a nation, we need to support the most vulnerable sector of the economy: our farmers.

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