Puckett’s Gro. & Restaurant donated a portion of its proceeds from the Sept. 14 Eat Green for Tennessee campaign to The Land Trust for Tennessee on Tuesday.
Puckett’s general manager, Max Stephenson, presented a check for $280.91 to Sarah O’Rear, Stewardship manager and Chelsea Wilson, Conservation assistant for The Land Trust for Tennessee, respectively, at the restaurant in the city’s Riverfront District.
In addition to several restaurants and breweries in Nashville and Chattanooga, Puckett’s Gro. joined in The Land Trust for Tennessee’s efforts to raise money to protect the state’s farmland and natural landscapes through its annual Eat Green for Tennessee fundraiser last month. Each participating restaurant pledged to donate 10% of its proceeds collected that day to the organization.
Puckett’s Gro. and its parent company, A. Marshall Family Foods Inc., are supporters of community organizations and have a vested interest in preserving local agriculture; Homestead Manor, the restaurant group’s multi-layer property in Thompson’s Station, Tn. that includes a 50-acre farm from which many of its on-site restaurant’s ingredients are sourced, is on a land trust.