Huge Record Shipment of Nearly One Billion Seeds Donated to Ukrainian Families Affected by the War
WARMINSTER, Pa., May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- America’s largest home gardening company has joined forces with one of the world’s leading charitable foundations to provide nearly a billion vegetable seeds to small-scale farmers and families throughout Ukraine to bolster the war-ravaged population’s food supply.
- The unprecedented shipment of more than 130,000 pounds of seeds was donated to an estimated 78,000 farming families and home gardeners at no cost by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation , which reached out to W. Atlee Burpee Company to obtain a wide variety of seeds well-suited to the needs of Ukrainian farms and home gardens.
- More than 830,000,000 seeds were included in the shipment.
- “Seeds selected for the Ukrainian shipment are high germinating varieties of mostly peas, green beans and sweet corn that were chosen to fit growing conditions in Ukraine,” said George Ball, Burpee Chairman.
- Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the Foundation has invested or committed more than $450 million to support Ukraine’s most urgent needs.