Congratulations to VI businesses who received the World Central Kitchen Awards ‘Plow to Plate’ grants! The grantees include My Neighbor’s Garden, New Breed Farm, Ridge to Reef Farm, Sejah Farm of the Virgin Islands, St. George Village Botanical Gardens, Tropics Hydroponics Farm and fisher Julian Magras.
The World Central Kitchen organization has food security and resilience program that offers direct financial support to small farmers, fishers and agribusinesses. According to the St. Croix Source, in the short-term, the grants awarded will help food-related small businesses, which saw their operations paralyzed by hurricanes Irma and María, and to revitalize and regenerate their long-term capacity for the production, distribution and sale of food. In the long-term, Plow to Plate aims to decrease the high rate of food imports into the USVI by supporting local food production. Read the full article here.