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Working Lands grantees describe how grants helped expand local food and forest supply chains
Summary
Three recipients of fiscal year 2024 Working Lands Enterprise Fund grants — Myers Produce, Union Brook Farm, and Goodridge Lumber — described how grant awards helped them scale distribution, add poultry-part processing capacity, and replace diesel generation to support local production and markets.
The Working Lands Enterprise Fund heard presentations from three 2024 grantees on how grant awards helped expand local agricultural and forest supply chains.
Elizabeth Sippel, enterprise initiatives program manager, told the board that "we were able to award 65 offer 65 grantees awards in fiscal year 20 24, and that was through 6 diverse funding opportunities." She said award sizes in that year ranged "from 6,000 to 250,000." The board heard three recipient accounts chosen to illustrate supply-chain infrastructure and small-farm diversification investments.
Annie Myers, owner of Myers Produce, described how a $90,000 supply-chain infrastructure grant helped the regional distributor build digital and cold-chain capacity. "We sold just under $5,000,000 worth of food from the Northeast" in 2024, Myers said, and described a fleet of five box trucks and three vans, about 20 staff, a 10,000-square-foot warehouse, and relationships with more than 75…
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