Hall, New York
June 1, 2009
SEEDWAY has become a sponsor of the Seed Farm program in
Lehigh County Pennsylvania. The innovative agricultural
incubator project was announced in March by Lehigh County
Executives in Allentown, PA. The program is the first of its
kind in Pennsylvania.
The Seed Farm program is designed to assist new farmers
beginning a career in production agriculture. Six individuals
have been selected for the inaugural season. Participants will
engage in a three-year apprenticeship, combining classroom
instruction and hands-on learning. Paired with a mentor farmer,
participants are given access to land, equipment, an irrigation
system, greenhouses and storage barns. SEEDWAY has comitted to a
three-year term of sponsorship.
The program takes place at the Seem Seed Farm which has been
owned by Lehigh County since 1974. The farm consists of 451
acres that have been preserved in perpetuity as farmland. The
25-acre agricultural incubator site includes cropland,
irrigation ponds and greenhouses.
Headquartered in Hall, NY, SEEDWAY, LLC maintains locations
in Trumansburg and Mecklenburg, NY, Shoreham, VT, Mifflinburg,
Mechanicsburg, Emmaus and Elizabethtown in PA and Lakeland, FL.
A full-line seed company, marketing farm, turf and vegetable
seed from the Rocky Mountains to the east coast and Ontario,
Canada, Seedway, LLC is a subsidiary of GROWMARK, Inc.,
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