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Local producers, businesses and the health foundation banded together this past growing season to raise a record amount of funds for local healthcare initiatives. ....
Jocelyn Boreta is bringing wellness and healing to the mostly Hispanic farmworker community in Sonoma, CA with her mobile herb clinic called the Botanical Bus. ....
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. ....
Farming for Health harvests the crop in 2020. File Photo. As befits something that won the Civic Recognition Award in the Group Category, Farming for Health is a real group effort, with people from across the region and from across the ag community in the region getting together for the common goal of farming to raise money for local healthcare. To date, the project has raised nearly $1.5 million, the first million to be used for a new hospital, and money that follows being used for equipment to keep improving health care in the area. Larry Hilworth, who co-chairs Farming for Health with Al Mitchell, said that this recognition is for everyone who has worked hard over the past eight years to raise that money. The beginning of the project was when Hilworth was with Maple Farm Equipment, and the project has continued since, even as many names have changed through the years. ....