As 2024 involves a detailed, it is the right time to mirror on a yr of significant affect at Frog Hole Farm. ✨ Listed below are a couple of milestones we’re proud to share this yr:
🥗 Nourishing Colleges: Within the US, Extremely Processed Meals (UPFs) make up about two-thirds of the common food regimen of kids (supply: Inexperienced Queen: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/big-food-ultra-processed-upf-lawsuit-kids-health/). This yr, we proudly offered about 220,000 lbs of contemporary fruit to colleges all through the Bay Space in partnership with Aware Kitchen, a program of Turning Inexperienced. Collectively, we’re guaranteeing wholesome, natural choices for college kids and combating the rise of UPFs in youngsters’ diets.
♻️ Optimizing Our Harvest: We continued our dedication to decreasing meals waste whereas using our fruit for its greatest goal – consuming! 227,000 lbs of ripe, juicy, and cosmetically challenged fruit, not in any other case salable, was remodeled into nutrient-dense and scrumptious dried fruit in our dry yard. In response to ReFed, roughly 33% of meals within the US goes to waste yearly. We’re dedicated to altering that on our farm.
🌱 Composting – Turning Waste to Useful resource: Something that may’t be offered for contemporary consuming and doesn’t make it to our Farm Kitchen or dry yard is recycled into nutrient-rich compost. his yr, we utilized 5,000 tons of compost again into our orchard, enriching the soil with very important vitamins and microbial life.
🏠 Reasonably priced Housing for Farm Staff: We put in 4 new trendy tiny houses on the farm in partnership with Hijas del Campo, offering reasonably priced and comfy housing for our unimaginable workforce members.
These milestones are greater than numbers; they mirror our dedication to caring for our planet, supporting our group, and driving innovation. We’re deeply grateful to everybody who supported us this yr – from our group of eaters and collaborating companions to our unimaginable workforce that brings all of it to life.
As we sit up for 2025, we’re excited to continue to grow, studying, and making a distinction collectively. 🤝
