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| Katherine Sims of Green Mountain Farm to School and Yankee Board Member Bryan Davis |
Derby,
Vermont (July 15, 2016) – Green Mountain Farm to School
recently received $10,000 from Yankee Farm Credit and CoBank, two cooperative
lending institutions in the Farm Credit System. Katherine Sims, Founder and
Executive Director received the donations from Bryan Davis, Yankee Farm
Credit’s Board member, Loren Petzoldt, Yankee Farm Credit’s Derby office Branch
Manager, and George Putnam, Yankee Farm Credit’s President and CEO. Each
institution contributed $5,000.
CoBank’s contribution is part of their “Sharing
Success” program, a $3 million matching grant program designed to benefit
cooperatives and charitable groups they support throughout rural America.
CoBank launched this program in 2012 to coincide with the United Nations’ “International
Year of Cooperatives.”
Katherine Sims of Green Mountain Farm to School
said: “We are thankful and honored to receive support from Yankee Farm Credit
and CoBank. Their matching Sharing Success donations will go a long way in
helping us plant school gardens, source local food in the cafeterias, and
continue educating our children and communities about healthy foods.”
Yankee Farm Credit’s George Putnam commented: “We
are pleased to recognize and support the efforts of Green Mountain Farm to
School, and its founder Katherine Sims, to promote awareness and use of good,
local foods in our schools. Their programs help our children learn healthy
eating habits and build connections to where our food comes from.”
Green Mountain Farm-to-School (GMFTS) is a non-profit
organization in Newport, Vt. that strengthens local food systems by promoting
positive economic and educational relationships between schools, farms, and
communities. GMFTS supplies fresh, local food to schools and institutions and
gives students of all ages the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy
food choice through school gardens, farm-to-school programs, a regional food hub,
and mobile learning kitchen. For more information about GMFTS, please visit
their website at http://greenmountainfarmtoschool.org/.
CoBank is a cooperative
bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans,
leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and
rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. A proud
member of the Farm Credit System, the bank also provides wholesale loans and
other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations, including
Yankee Farm Credit, which in turn serve farmers, ranchers and other rural
borrowers in 23 states around the country. For more information about CoBank,
visit the bank’s web site at www.cobank.com
