Pure Farmland™ Celebrates Summit Community Gardens With $10,000 Donation As Part Of Its Pure Growth Project

Grant to Assist Park Metropolis Neighborhood Backyard Thrive and Improve Neighborhood Entry to Domestically Grown Produce

SMITHFIELD, Va., Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Earlier at the moment, Pure Farmland^™ acknowledged Summit Neighborhood Gardens in Park Metropolis, Utah for its optimistic affect within the space with a test donation of $10,000. The contribution is a part of the Pure Growth Project, an initiative launched by Pure Farmland in 2020 to make sure neighborhood gardens and farms proceed to thrive and assist improve entry to contemporary, regionally grown fruit and veggies nationwide. Summit Neighborhood Gardens was chosen a 2021 grant recipient to help its mission to empower the local people to collect and backyard at excessive altitude and supply a neighborhood haven of native crops, flowers and timber.

Park City community garden receives grant to increase access to locally grown produce. — Park Metropolis neighborhood backyard receives grant to extend entry to regionally grown produce.

After receiving 103 purposes from neighborhood gardens and farms throughout 29 states, 55 organizations have been fastidiously chosen to obtain grants starting from $1,000 to $20,000, offering a complete of $125,000 in monetary help to nurture these distinctive neighborhood areas. Within the spirit of continued development, Pure Farmland elevated its monetary dedication by 25% this 12 months in hopes of positively supporting as many inexperienced areas as doable.

Pure Farmland joined Summit Neighborhood Gardens to have a good time the native inexperienced area’s achievements and spotlight the wonderful affect their exhausting work has on the neighborhood. The occasion included a test presentation of $10,000 to assist fund the backyard’s free Neighborhood Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, which delivers fresh-grown produce on to households in want. By making a weekly supply possibility, the backyard has been capable of break down limitations so neighbors with lack of transportation or busy work schedules can nonetheless have entry to contemporary fruit and veggies. In an particularly tough time for households dealing with meals insecurity, this grant will enable Summit Neighborhood Gardens to double the variety of recipients receiving meals baskets.

“Pure Farmland is proud to convey this chance to Summit Neighborhood Gardens to allow them to proceed to uplift the neighborhood and act as a pillar of inspiration and power,” stated Michael Merritt, senior director of selling for Pure Farmland at Smithfield Meals. “Getting access to contemporary, wholesome meals should not be a privilege that just some People have. It is a longstanding battle in lots of city and rural areas throughout our nation the place residents endure from lack of entry to essential vitamins. Seeing the affect of the Pure Development Venture grants carried out in these wonderful applications solely encourages us to maintain doing what we will to supply monetary aid and highlight the work of those wonderful organizations.”

Every season, the backyard donates over 1,000 kilos of natural produce throughout its applications to supply meals safety to the neighborhood. The general public Park Metropolis backyard is applauded for its dedication of fostering a secure area for neighborhood members to collect, be taught and develop, in addition to its efforts to make sure neighbors have entry to fresh-grown meals throughout the present public well being and financial disaster.

“Along with Summit Land Conservancy and Brilliant Futures, we recognized households in our neighborhood that have been experiencing meals insecurity. Every week this season, our volunteers and employees harvested contemporary greens to create baskets that we delivered to their doorstep. This program offers reliable entry to nutritious produce grown inside minutes of their properties,” stated Sloane Johnson, government director for Summit Neighborhood Gardens. “We’re so excited to have the ability to develop this program with the assistance of our neighborhood companions and Pure Farmland.”

For extra data, please go to puregrowthproject.com. Pure Farmland is a model of Smithfield Meals.

About Pure Farmland^™Pure Farmland^™ is a maker of high-quality, plant-based protein merchandise, akin to breakfast hyperlinks and patties, burger patties, meatballs, pre-seasoned protein starters, and dinner hyperlinks and serves retail clients. Pure Farmland merchandise are proudly crafted within the USA with soy protein, coconut oil, pure flavors, are gluten and dairy free, and function a very good supply of protein. To be taught extra about Pure Farmland, please go to www.Pure-Farmland.com, and join with us on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. Pure Farmland is a model of Smithfield Meals.

About Smithfield Meals, Inc.
Headquartered in Smithfield, Va. since 1936, Smithfield Meals, Inc. is an American meals firm with agricultural roots and a worldwide attain. Our 63,000 workforce members are devoted to producing “Good meals. Responsibly.^®” and have made Smithfield one of many world’s main vertically built-in protein corporations. We’ve pioneered sustainability requirements for greater than twenty years, together with our industry-leading commitments to turn into carbon unfavorable in U.S. company-owned operations and scale back GHG emissions 30 p.c throughout our total U.S. worth chain by 2030. We imagine within the energy of protein to finish meals insecurity and have donated lots of of hundreds of thousands of meals servings to our communities. Smithfield boasts a portfolio of high-quality iconic manufacturers, akin to Smithfield^®, Eckrich^® and Nathan’s Well-known^®, amongst many others. For extra data, go to www.smithfieldfoods.com, and join with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

About Summit Neighborhood Gardens
In 2015, Summit Neighborhood Gardens, positioned in Park Metropolis, Utah, partnered with Summit County, The Summit Land Conservancy, and Basin Recreation to create and function a 1.5-acre backyard positioned within the Snyderville Basin. This area is now dwelling to 88 neighborhood backyard plots, perennial demonstration beds, vegetable demonstration beds, a beehive, a children’ backyard, and a compost heart. Over 130 neighborhood members lease plots to develop their very own meals and over 100 volunteers develop meals in demonstration gardens which are used for summer season camps, grownup training, and meals donations by a free CSA program and meals stand. The backyard is open to the general public and hosts a number of occasions all through the summer season to convey the neighborhood collectively concert events, dinners, artwork reveals, and lessons. Summit Neighborhood Gardens’ mission is to empower the neighborhood to collect and backyard at excessive altitude and encourage the land to thrive as open area, as a gorgeous haven of native crops, flowers, and timber.

Media Contact:
Caroline Greer
HUNTER: on behalf of Pure Farmland
(646) 459-4952
cgreer@hunterpr.com