Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Creamery is returning again this year as the top-tier sponsor of Brattleboro’s Strolling of the Heifers, a weekend-long event and year-round movement to promote entrepreneurship and innovation at farm and food businesses. By teaming up with the Vermont Foodbank at the event, Green Mountain Creamery is using the celebration as an opportunity to share ideas about making an impact locally.
As Strolling of the Heifers aims to provide consumers with an understanding of the importance of eating local food, Green Mountain Creamery works to support regional farms and Vermont communities through its dairy sourcing. To supplement this idea, Green Mountain Creamery partners with the Vermont Foodbank to donate about 125,680 pounds of its dairy products throughout each year.
“Being a Vermont-born company, we are driven to support the family-owned farms that help us make great products,” says Green Mountain Creamery’s Brand Communications Manager Amanda Moorhouse. “Supporting the Vermonters who live in the communities we do business in is also a top priority for us, and as a food company it was natural to focus on food insecurity. We’re excited to continue working with both Strolling of the Heifers and the Vermont Foodbank.” Green Mountain Creamery and the Vermont Foodbank will be uniting during the Strolling of the Heifers celebration to distribute free yogurt at the Slow Living Expo following the parade on June 2.
“The Vermont Foodbank receives a tremendous amount of food donated by Green Mountain Creamery each year,” says the Vermont Foodbank’s CEO John Sayles. “We’re thrilled to be promoting both public health and community farms with them at Strolling of the Heifers in June.” Strolling of the Heifers will be providing education and entertainment all weekend long from June 1-3, 2018. For a full events listing, please visit https://www.strollingoftheheifers.com/
GREEN MOUNTAIN CREAMERY is an all-natural dairy business born in the hills of Vermont, with a mission to make dairy products approachable and affordable. Using a unique blend of probiotic cultures, Green Mountain Creamery has perfected its signature mild and creamy yogurts. As a committed member of the communities in which it does business, Green Mountain Creamery has donated thousands of pounds of yogurt to the Vermont Foodbank, and promotes innovation among farm and food businesses as a primary component of its corporate mission.
THE VERMONT FOODBANK is the state’s largest hunger-relief organization, providing nutritious food and promoting health through a network of 215 food shelves, meal sites, senior centers and after-school programs, and directly to families, children, older adults and individuals at schools and hospitals. In 2017, the Vermont Foodbank distributed nearly 12 million pounds of food to 153,100 Vermonters. The Vermont Foodbank, a member of Feeding America, is nationally recognized as one of the most effective and efficient nonprofits and food banks in the nation. Learn more at www.vtfoodbank.org
STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS is a non-profit organization with the mission of connecting people with healthy local food, encouraging and facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship in the farm/food sector, and supporting the development of stronger local food systems and healthy, sharing, connected and resilient communities.
Source:Green Mountain Creamery 5.21.2018