JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Lawns and beer tend to go together, whether it’s having a lawn party or sitting on the mower with a nice cold beer in hand (of course, contractors can’t do this on the job, but they may enjoy this practice while mowing their own lawns at home). So a donation by Anheuser-Busch's Jacksonville Brewery, along with North Florida Sales, the local Anheuser-Busch wholesaler, of money to purchase sod for Habitat For Humanity of Jacksonville Inc. (HabiJax) is a natural progression.
The brewery has donated $35,000 to purchase 450,000 square feet of sod from Nutri-Turf Inc., an Anheuser-Busch subsidiary, to beautify the landscape of 100 homes HabiJax will build between September 5-23, in the Northside Fairway Oaks subdivision. The donation will help HabiJax continue its mission of "Breaking Down Barriers, Building Up Hope," which challenges families, businesses and the faith community to work together to provide low-income housing in Jacksonville.
Nutri-Turf – located near the Jacksonville brewery – is made up of working sod farms that annually produce approximately 21 million square feet of sod purchased primarily by golf courses and sports stadiums throughout the Southeast. The farms use nutrient-rich brewery wastewater to fertilize hay and turf crops, which also helped create a haven for wildlife to live and thrive.
In addition to providing the sod, Anheuser-Busch brewery employees have volunteered to lend a helping hand in this ambitious project, and North Florida Sales has provided a Budweiser distribution truck to deliver the sod to the subdivision. The Nutri-Turf sod will be used to create lawns for the new homes and to sod a subdivision community park the size of a football field.
