Local creamery works with Florida Farm Bureau to donate meals to families in need
Press release from Florida Farm Bureau
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Farm Bureau awarded Feeding Florida $100,000 to combat hunger while supporting Florida farmers and ranchers statewide. Hawthorne Creek Creamery donated more than 1,800 pounds of cheese to the Feeding Florida Food Bank as part of the effort.
The donation allowed Feeding Florida to purchase 24,815 pounds of Florida-grown product for all nine of its Feeding Florida food banks. The donation totaled the equivalent of 20,679 meals.
The contribution supported product purchases in five categories of the USDA MyPlate to complete a healthy and nutritious diet. These categories included dairy, protein, fruits, vegetables, and fats/oils. Feeding Florida worked to ensure that 100% of the donation directly supported farm families while meeting the needs of food-insecure populations statewide.
“I am always inspired by the compassion of our membership,” said Florida Farm Bureau President Jeb S. Smith. “This contribution to Feeding Florida not only provided nourishment to families in need but nurtured the spirit of our agricultural communities.”
Farms that worked with Feeding Florida to donate products included Hawthorne Creek Creamery, Quincey Cattle Company, H&A Farms, The Villages Grown, and Webb’s Honey.
Will the donated products go to low income families or to the grifters who do not contribute to society?
How many duplicate food programs do we need? Anna Prizzia’s huge conflict of interest corporation Working Food just got $250,000 from the BOCC to do the same. City of Gainesville gives Working Food big bucks to do the same. Soon the BOCC will allocate $950,000 to hire a full time person and buy a food truck to go to local farmers and get bean sprouts and go to East Gainesville to give them away. I predict only Working Foods will put in an application for this BS by Prizzia to throw more money to her woke liberal do gooder housewife friends at Working Food and up the ante by hiring one of her buddies to a cushy government job driving the county food truck feeding East Gainesville with bean sprouts. Squandering money by the bushel. Your tax dollars at work.