Local producers, businesses and the health foundation banded together this past growing season to raise a record amount of funds for local healthcare initiatives.
So far the project has raised $1.492 million. That s net dollars. Our gross is considerably higher than that, said Hilworth, adding we couldn t do this without the City and the City land. In fact, Hilworth said other Health Foundations have called to inquire how they manage to make FFH work, and no other group has managed to get a project off the ground, largely because they do not have land available to them. It has helped too that the project has had huge support from the agriculture sector, said Hilworth, noting for example they have had some $300,000 in canola seed supplied through the years, and local implement dealers have stepped up to plant the crop and help harvest it.