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BAV Helping Farmers & Food Producers With Funding And Grants
Berkshire Agricultural Ventures (BAV) has announced that in the five years since their founding they have offered more than one million in funding to farmers and food producers in the Berkshires, Columbia, and Dutchess Counties in New York, and Litchfield County, Connecticut.
This includes twenty-four direct loans through their Revolving Loan Fund which offers flexible 0-2% interest loans. Capital within the Revolving Loan Fund is continuously recycled, creating a viable and reliable stream of support for agricultural entrepreneurs.
Through BAV’s grant fund, the Resilience Fund, they have awarded over thirty grants. This fund started in response to Covid-19 and the pandemic’s exacerbated effects on food producers in the area.
The goal will be to think about how Pittsfield can be a thriving place to live, work, and play for all members of broader communities. President Branden Huldeen explained that he sees three ways that everyone can move forward together: innovation, collaboration, and the very important work in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. I want to recognize it, it s been a rough year. And rough is probably the kindest word I could probably use for right now. But I m proud of the number of businesses that have been able to push through so far, Huldeen said at Thursday s annual meeting.
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