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Fayetteville's Cape Fear Botanical Garden wins $10,000 Kubota Hometown Proud® Grant

By Staff Report, posted 1 year ago
Aerial map of the CFBG's  Cape Fear Heritage Garden

As a continued commitment to its dealers, customers, and local communities, Kubota Tractor Corporation announced 20 grant recipients in its fourth annual Kubota Hometown Proud® grant program aimed at providing support across the country for local nonprofit organizations and their unique initiatives. This year, the company is proud to announce that the Cape Fear Heritage Garden, nominated by Cape Fear Botanical Gardens and supported by local Kubota dealer Linder Turf and Tractor, is one of those winners. Each of the 20 hometown projects now goes up for a public vote  and the project with the most votes in each district will turn its $10,000 grant into a $50,000 grant.

Cape Fear Botanical Garden is a living laboratory that offers environmental education, therapeutic horticulture, and research opportunities. Revitalizing the Heritage Garden by creating an outdoor classroom with educational signage, raised planters, seat walls, arbor structures for shade and support for vertical gardens will allow the program to expand. This expansion will help the gardens welcome larger audiences of children, adults, and the military to learn about the benefits of science, gardening, and nature. Completing the project will also help to address food security, promote health and wellness, and provide volunteer opportunities to grow food for neighbors in the community. 

With the $10,000 Kubota grant, Cape Fear Botanical Gardens will begin development of pathways and planting areas and add agricultural history signage to enhance educational programs. Should they win the $50,000 grant, they will begin construction of a new outdoor classroom space in the Heritage Garden with installation of raised planters, seat walls, and arbor structures. 

Vote Daily for More Chances to WIN

From now until August 14, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CT, the public is encouraged to visit KubotaHometownProud.com and rally for their hometown project by casting a vote for one of the 20 community projects. Every vote submitted will be automatically entered into a sweepstakes* for the chance to win a Kubota residential Z200 Series zero-turn mower or BX Series sub-compact tractor. Voters can make their selections once per day to increase their odds of winning. The community projects with the most votes will be announced in September.

 

National Support for More Local Resources

Each dealer in Kubota’s 1,100-strong dealer network strives to give back in their communities, and Kubota is helping to further bridge their local relationships by connecting national grant resources to important community projects that make significant local impact. For a list of all the 2024 grant recipients and Kubota Hometown Proud® grant program official rules, visit KubotaHometownProud.com.   

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