Cape Fear Farm Credit Announces Annual Community Service Project Centered on Local Support and Produce
For the third year in a row, Cape Fear Farm Credit (CFFC) is partnering with local farmers to purchase fresh produce to distribute through food donation centers to families in need throughout Southeastern North Carolina. What started two years ago, in response to the pandemic, Cape Fear Farm Credit continues with the annual Produce Project to positively impact the communities they serve. In the past two years, this Cape Fear Farm Credit project has supported 81 local farmers, volunteered approximately 430 hours and fed more than 6,000 individuals with fresh, local and healthy produce throughout their local communities Cape Fear Farm Credit is honored to continue the annual project this year to add to the collective positive impact throughout southeastern North Carolina.
Each produce bag is filled with traditional southern produce from local family farms within Southeastern North Carolina including such as corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, squash, zucchini, blueberries and blackberries. Each bag is filled with enough produce to feed a family of four. This project assists their members and local farmers by providing an additional distribution avenue for their produce, in addition to feeding local families in need.
Each local branch plans to assemble and distribute their local produce bags
throughout June and July.
The following local branches will complete the produce project in June:
Kenansville office serving Duplin County
Raeford office serving Hoke and Scotland counties
Elizabethtown office serving Bladen and Cumberland counties
Lumberton office serving Robeson County
Whiteville office serving Brunswick and Columbus counties
The following local branches will complete the produce project in July:
Dunn office serving Harnett County
Burgaw office serving Pender and New Hanover counties
Clinton office serving Sampson County
About Cape Fear Farm Credit
Cape Fear Farm Credit is an agricultural lending cooperative owned by its member-borrowers. It provides loans for land, equipment, livestock and production as well as rural home mortgages and rural living. Cape Fear Farm Credit has branches serving Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Hoke, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson, Sampson, and Scotland counties. It is part of the national Farm Credit System, a network of financial cooperatives established in 1916 to provide a dependable source of credit to farmers and rural America. To locate a branch near you, visit www.capefearfc.com or call 1.800.368.5819.