Maple Hill Awarded Funding for Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project: Growing the Supply and Market for Climate-Smart Grass-Fed Organic Dairy
This project will expand climate-smart markets for dairy producers and enable a network of partners and producers to implement climate-smart practices by incentivizing implementation and providing training support. This will lead to greater environmental practices and enhanced viability for farms that implement them. The project plans to provide participants incentives for avoided conversion, pasture improvements, attending educational events, and a number of other regenerative farming practices. Marketing plans include updated branding materials like packaging, advertising, social media and a website.
Congratulations to all of our amazing partners — our committed farmers — who helped make this happen, and who join us in our commitment to providing better products for consumers, our planet, our cows and our environment.
As America’s original 100% grass-fed organic dairy, Maple Hill’s mission is to bring healthy, organic, 100% grass-fed dairy products to families all over the United States. As a result, healthy soil is the cornerstone of literally everything we do. We work tirelessly within our network of organic 100% grass-fed farmers to develop and implement practices that result in the regeneration of the land through the management of organic grass-fed cows.
When managed in harmony with nature, grazing cows are one of the most effective tools on Earth as far as igniting the life in the soil—which incidentally is the foundation of the carbon cycle, soil fertility, economic viability for farmers and the nutrition our bodies receive from the food we eat. Maple Hill’s organic grassfed milk supply, and the nourishment we provide to families through our products—starts with the health of the soil, the grass, and the happy healthy cows on the family farms we work with.
As consumers and retailers alike begin to understand the 100% grass-fed organic value proposition, our Milkshed has grown from two farms to over 150 farms in 2017. Maple Hill is now one of the fastest-growing dairy brands in the natural channel. What started as a specialty regional yogurt company in 2009 has become a national dairy brand, and consumers can now find Maple Hill in over 6,000 retailers across the US.
About Maple Hill
About Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
USDA is committed to supporting a diverse range of farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. This effort will expand markets for America’s climate-smart commodities, leverage the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production, and provide direct, meaningful benefits to production agriculture, including for small and underserved producers.
USDA is investing more than $3.1 billion for 141 projects through this effort and all of the projects that will be funded require meaningful involvement of small and underserved producers.
To learn more, please visit https://www.usda.gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities
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In order for a producer to be considered for our program you need to be (or be willing to transition to) an Organic Plus Trust (OPT) certified grass-fed organic dairy producer. Our current target geography is farms in reasonable proximity to our existing Maple Hill farms in Upstate New York. If we had enough interest from farms in states geographically close to New York we would consider expanding our horizon.