Through this partnership, Bonnie
Plants will donate $250,000
to AmpleHarvest.org to connect America's
gardeners with local food pantries
OPELIKA,
Ala., May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As food
pantries continue to experience unprecedented demand, home
gardeners have the opportunity to be a solution for eliminating
hunger and malnutrition in their community by donating healthy
homegrown produce to feed those in need.
Bonnie Plants, the largest grower
of vegetable and herb plants for home gardens in the U.S., is
partnering with The Home Depot and AmpleHarvest.org to empower
gardeners to grow for good this season and #DonateYourHarvest to
local food pantries.
Through this partnership, Bonnie
Plants will donate $250,000 to
AmpleHarvest.org, a nonprofit that connects home and community
gardeners to food pantries to share their surplus harvests instead
of letting it go to waste.
"We're calling on all gardeners to join us in growing for good
this season to experience how rewarding it feels to use your garden
for something amazing like feeding your community," said
Mike Sutterer, President & CEO
of Bonnie Plants."By growing your
garden with Bonnie Plants, you'll be
sure to have a plentiful harvest to share with your local food
pantry. Just one tomato plant can generate 15 or more pounds of
tomatoes to help feed your local community!"
Gardeners can ensure they will have an amazing harvest with lots
of surplus veggies and herbs to donate by expanding their garden
with the Bonnie Plants Harvest Select line, available exclusively
at The Home Depot. Whether they're disease-resistant,
heat-tolerant, space-savers, or produce abundant harvests, the
Harvest Select line includes varieties like Stellar Tomato, Fresh
Bites Orange Pepper, and Prizm Kale that are designed for gardening
success.
"Growing a bountiful vegetable and herb garden at home has never
been easier thanks to the innovations in Bonnie's Harvest Select
line." said Dan Stuppiello, Division
Merchandise Manager of Live Goods at The Home Depot. "Through this
partnership with AmpleHarvest.org, our customers will not only be
able to enjoy their harvest, but also make a difference in their
local communities. It's truly a win-win."
Throughout the season, gardeners are encouraged to use
#DonateYourHarvest on social media and tag others to join in the
movement to grow for good. When it's time to harvest their
vegetables, gardeners can use AmpleHarvest.org to find the closest
food pantry to donate their surplus produce, opening a floodgate of
healthy food for hungry families.
"Historically, we've all been told that food pantries only
accept jars, cans, and boxes of food but not fresh produce. This
misinformation starved America's food pantries of the wholesome
locally grown food they badly needed," said AmpleHarvest.org
founder Gary Oppenheimer. "Our
partnership with Bonnie Plants and
The Home Depot is focused on assuring that surplus harvests are not
lost to waste, while helping gardeners nationwide become a solution
for food insecurity by encouraging them to grow more to feed more
year after year."
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Plants joined forces with
AmpleHarvest.org to create the Grow More. Feed More.
initiative to inspire gardeners to share their harvests to feed
neighbors in need. Expanding on this partnership to include The
Home Depot will raise awareness among consumers to make the cause
bigger than ever before.
Today, AmpleHarvest.org food pantries can be found in 4,200
communities in all 50 states, with at least one AmpleHarvest.org
food pantry near every The Home Depot store.
For more information, visit: homedepot.com/donateyourharvest
About Bonnie
Plants
Headquartered in Opelika, Alabama, Bonnie Plants is the largest and only national
supplier and producer of vegetable and herb plants for home gardens
in the United States. Bonnie grows
300 varieties of quality vegetable and herb plants for home
gardeners across the country, with over 85 growing facilities
serving the entire United States.
Established in Union Springs,
Alabama in 1918 by Livingston and Bonnie
Paulk, the company has remained in touch with its roots for
more than 100 years. Bonnie Plants
are available at garden retailers throughout the United States and online at
bonnieplants.com.
About The Home Depot
The Home Depot is the world's
largest home improvement specialty retailer. At the end of fiscal
year 2021, the company operated a total of 2,317 retail stores in
all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company employs approximately
500,000 associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones
industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. The Home
Depot is #18 on the 2021 Fortune 500.
About AmpleHarvest.org
AmpleHarvest.org, Inc. is a
not-for-profit 501c3 organization that is ending hunger and food
waste nationwide by networking millions of home/community gardeners
to thousands of local food pantries, each eager to receive and then
distribute the grower's surplus harvest. For more information,
visit http://www.AmpleHarvest.org/presskit or call
973-632-7568.
For media inquiries, contact:
Angela Thomas
Corporate Communications Manager
334-473-0581
angela.thomas@bonnieplants.com
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