WLT Development & Grants Manager Janaé Reneaud accepts a check for $5,229 from Whole Foods Market.

Fall 2003: Washtenaw Land Trust supporters who shopped at the new Whole Foods Market on Washtenaw Avenue at Huron Parkway in Ann Arbor helped raise $5,229 toward an important farmland preservation initiative. WLT was the beneficiary of the supermarket’s Community Support Day on October 15. Through the grant program, Whole Foods graciously donated 5 percent of the day's proceeds to WLT to support a conservation easement purchase program on South Fletcher Road in Lima Township. The prime organic farmland is utilized by the Community Farm of Ann Arbor. “Whole Foods has given this important project a big boost,” said WLT Executive Director William Hanson. “We really appreciate their support, and we look forward to finding ways to partner with Whole Foods again.”