FARE

Josh Davis owns JD's bodega in downtown Boise and has gotten a lot of help from FARE, a trade organization representing food, agriculture, restaurants and establishments. Came out of pandemic, and when everything was happening, there was a lot of business owners that that unsure about sure about what to do, how to proceed you now for you know for everybody. And so as that was happening, we all found that there was a hole and there was no real great communication to network with one another to figure out how do we navigate problems like this and other problems. Well, the founding members and other problems come to me and asked if I wanted to be involved and obviously I said yes because we were all just spinning our wheels, wondering how we were going to proceed and what we needed to do. Our wheels wandering focused on receiving what we needed to do. This is here focused on these guys came forward, although FARE is really geared towards independent restaurants and beverage distributors and local farmers and retailers and bringing all those people together, We kind of fell outside of that box a little bit, but certainly there was a lot of crossover and a lot of the people we worked were having the same issues and problems that we were to really support a bodega having the traffic and the volume and all of that were right at the basis of that in our city. As it continues to grow, it'll get better. Speaker1: FARE stands for food, agriculture, restaurants and establishments.