The $20 million will be used to incentivize growers both big and small to transition to new ways of farming for the long-term benefit of people, the planet and their own bottom lines.
A.G. Kawamura, left, a third generation farmer from Orange County, and Steve Brazeel, right, founder and CEO of Elevated Foods, in a field of peppers at the South Coast Research and Extension Center/ UC Agriculture and Natural Resources in Irvine on Friday, October 7, 2022. Brazeel’s Newport Beach-based company received a $20 million grant from the USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program.
Steve Brazeel, founder and CEO of Elevated Foods, stands in a field of green beans at the South Coast Research and Extension Center/ UC Agriculture and Natural Resources in Irvine on Friday, October 7, 2022. The Newport Beach-based company received a $20 million grant from the USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. It’s not every day that an agribusiness receives $20 million in federal grant money to restore and regenerate farmland using climate-smart practices.
“Do you recall those long lines of cars driving through food banks and getting a box put in their trunks? We were one of the awardees of those contracts, and that really changed our whole mindset on what we could do to better our food systems,” said Brazeel, who launched Elevated Foods in 2020 to do just that.
Kawamura’s organization grows food for Second Harvest Food Bank at the University of California South Coast Research and Extension Center’s Harvest Solutions Farm in Irvine. Another is the California Association of Food Banks, a distribution partner based in the Bay Area.
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