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PHOTO: Isnino Ibrahim, center, speaks about the Isuken Cooperative at New Roots Farm in Lewiston at a USDA event in October 2020. The cooperative is part of the Maine Marinara Collaborative, a Health Community Capital Area project that has been awarded a 2022 New England Food Vision Prize. (Maureen Milliken photo)
BOSTON – Projects by Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine and Healthy Community Capital Area are among eight winners of the 2022 New England Food Vision Prize.
Both organizations were awarded $200,000, the maximum amount by the program, which is funded by the Henry P. Kendall Foundation.
Good Shepherd’s award was for its frozen vegetable company, Harvesting Good, and the grant will support marketing of frozen locally grown broccoli florets and expand the food processing infrastructure in the Northeast. The program is in partnership with Sodexo, Native Maine, W.R. Allen, and Jasper Wyman & Son.
Healthy Community Capital Area, based in Gardiner, was awarded the grant for its Maine Marinara Collaborative, in collaboration with the Maine Farm & Sea Cooperative, Maine Food Group, and Isuken Cooperative of Lewiston. The program brings together local supply chain partners to deliver a regionally sourced, Maine-processed marinara product for institutional use.
The other Maine winner was Gulf of Maine Research Institute, which was awarded $170,900 for its effort to develop a holistic approach to New England seafood consumption in K-12 schools, in collaboration with Portland and Westbrook Public Schools.
Other winners were Center for an Agricultural Economy, Northeast Organic Farming Association and Vital Communities, all of Vermont; CLiCK Inc., of Connecticut; and Massachusetts Farm to School.
The $1.4 million fund awards is aimed at building resilience, relationships, and capacity within New England’s farm-to-institution food supply chain. For more information, visit kendall.org/2022-new-england-food-vision.
