Frost Valley YMCA receives grant

Posted 2/15/17

CLARYVILLE, NY — Farm Credit Northeast Ag Enhancement Program has awarded Frost Valley YMCA a $500 grant to be used to underwrite the 2017 Farm Leaders Project at Frost Valley’s Farm …

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Frost Valley YMCA receives grant

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CLARYVILLE, NY — Farm Credit Northeast Ag Enhancement Program has awarded Frost Valley YMCA a $500 grant to be used to underwrite the 2017 Farm Leaders Project at Frost Valley’s Farm Camp, a program that is set on 515 acres, where children learn to care for animals, cultivate and harvest vegetables, and the importance of taking care of the earth. Students enrolled at Frost Valley’s summer farm camp training program will create a pollinator patch to increase the vegetation at Frost Valley’s Farm that supports pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Pollinators are vital to farming because they help plants reproduce by moving pollen to fertilize them.

“Our 2017 Farm Leader’s Pollinator Patch project for next summer will now move forward, as we are committed to improving the yield in every way at our Farm Camp,” said Jerry Huncosky, CEO of Frost Valley.

This project will teach 10 farm leaders and 220 resident campers at the farm ages seven to 15, as well as 65 Farm Day Camp participants, about the importance of pollinators to agriculture. To be completed during the first session of summer camp, July 2 to 14, the project will ultimately introduce pollinator plants to 700 people coming to Frost Valley from throughout the Northeast, predominately New York and New Jersey. The 16-year-old teen leaders at Frost Valley’s Farm Camp will properly prepare the pollinator patch soil and plant specific native vegetation to create a habitat for native pollinators.

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