Home Depot is helping to promote California-grown products in its 174 California stores. Information will posted alongside products grown in California.
The campaign is a partnership with the Buy California Marketing Agreement (BCMA), 28 industry groups representing the products of California's farms, ranches, forests, and fisheries. It aims to increase the awareness and consumption of local California agricultural products.
California is the third-largest producer of softwood lumber in the country behind Oregon and Washington, producing 3.1 billion board feet of lumber annually, or enough to build about 207,000 standard-sized homes.
Said Ron Jarvis, vice president of merchandising, "This gives our California customers the chance to invest in their state's economy by purchasing wood products produced here."
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