Grapes Galore — WVU Extension organizes free fruit giveaway

‘It Was Meant to Be’: Unused Local Greenhouses Get a Second Chance to Give Back

Grapevine nursery owner Jay Jensen had a problem. Grapevines are a seasonal product, and his 120,000 square feet of greenhouses in Sonoma Valley were unused from late June through January. The team that worked in those greenhouses were not as busy for half the year, too. That is, until Jensen happened to sit next to a board member of the Redwood Empire Food Bank at a local event. The two business leaders started chatting, and Jensen realized tho…

Grapes Galore — WVU Extension organizes free fruit giveaway

In what is quickly becoming a fruitful partnership, West Virginia University Extension and The Farmlink Project recently teamed up to distribute 200,000 pounds of grapes in five counties. This comes on the heels of a similar project in December, when educators with the WVU Extension Family Nutrition Program distributed 436,200 pounds of surplus apples provided […]