It didn’t take long for Lindsay Tillou to realize how hard cooking as a new mom would be.
“Anybody with a brand new baby doesn’t have a lot of time to do anything,” she said. “Especially plan meals.”
At CHP in Great Barrington, qualifying clients have access to weekly farm shares in a program to get local, healthy food to people who are pregnant, postpartum and diabetic. Lindsay Tillou, with her daughters Giavanna, 4, and Olivia Smith, 1, says she relied on the program for healthy groceries and doable recipes during the pandemic after Olivia was born.