2023 Cultivators

On December 13, 2022, the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research convened a special hearing on Capitol Hill. Subcommittee Chair, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, presided over the session titled “Food as Medicine: Current Efforts and Potential Opportunities.”

HVADC’s FeedHV program, which connects regional food banks and community support programs with excess food from farms and institutions, recently reported having a productive post-pandemic rebuilding year in 2022, tripling its list of donors.

Prospect Hill Orchards in Milton New York has been farmed by seven generations of the Clarke family over the past 200 years. With the bulk of managerial operations now in the hands of Pamela Clarke Torres, Pam reached out to HVADC and participated in the 2019/2020 class of HVADC’s Farm and Food Funding Accelerator Program (FFFA).

When HVADC was developing the organization as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), it was important to HVADC leadership that the program’s advisory group bring together invested stakeholders from all the diverse areas of the region.

Shaker Creek Farm in Stephentown, was first featured in the HVADC Cultivator in November 2021 after it received Business Technical Assistance (BTA) through the HVADC Incubator Without Walls Program.

In 2015 Scott Seeberger says he and his brother Todd Seeberger had a thought: “What would it be like to own an apple orchard?”