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Farmers Market on the road
Briggs & Stratton focusing on healthy initiative
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After completing her shift at Briggs & Stratton, Terrell Johnson, left, takes a taste of cane syrup being offered up by Stacey Freeman, right, of Freeman's Mill as local farmers bring their products to employees of the plant last Friday.
As part of Briggs & Stratton's company-wide sustainability initiative, the corporation invited the Mainstreet Farmers Market Friday to its manufacturing plant located in Gateway Industrial Park. The Market served as the culmination of the Statesboro plant's first Sustainability Week, which was designed to provide employees information regarding different ways to care for the planet. "Our company has had sustainability awareness weeks at the corporate level for the last few years," said Steve Holmes, a Statesboro-based environmental manager for the company.
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