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With Muddies Sleeves Sysco Volunteers Prepare Students’ Spring Plantation Field



04/21/2019

As the time approaches for spring plantation, what better way could there to instil respect for nature in students than to give them a hands on gardening experience?


Dailycsr.com – 21 April 2019 – In last weekend, a group of volunteers from Sysco muddied their hands at the large community garden of Whittier Elementary. With rolled up sleeves, the volunteers launched themselves to support “Urban Harvest”, whereby they cleaned up eleven vegetable beds and prepared them for the “spring planting”.
 
The plantation will including a variety of kitchen hers as well as flowers. Moreover, more plots underwent weeding, tiling and seeding among other treatments, while the southern peas and sunflower crops dominated. The team’s hard work went into making the outdoor space of the school suitable for the students to plant their spring crops.
 
This way, the growing minds were helped to witness their crops “sprout and flourish”, which in turn will teach them to respect healthy foods and the environment at large.
 
Sysco leads the way in distribution, marketing and trading food products to “restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home”. Moreover, “family of products” covers supplies and equipment needed in the “foodservice and hospitality industries”.
 
At present, it has more than “67,000 associates”, while its operations are spread across three hundred thirty “distribution facilities” all over the world. The company’s customer base is over six hundred thousand s locations strong.  In the financial year ending on “June 30, 2018”, its sales figures were over “$58 billion”.
 
You can avail more information about Sysco at the following websites:
www.sysco.com
www.facebook.com/SyscoCorporation  
https://twitter.com/Sysco.
 
While, Sysco further added:
“For important news and information regarding Sysco, visit the Investor Relations section of the company's Internet home page at http://investors.sysco.com/, which Sysco plans to use as a primary channel for publishing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information”.
 
 
References:
3blmedia.com