Blue Jeans Go Green Denim Drive

Before I even started working at Farmer's Crop Insurance, I knew Sam was passionate about Blue Jeans Go Green. If the giant box of jeans in the Harlingen Farmers Crop office wasn’t a dead giveaway, it was his excitement during our early conversations about Farmers Crop's ability to use our locations, our network of friends and farmers, and our business for good in a way that created a sustainable end use for a cotton product that certainly gave it away. Now that I’m fully on board with the Farmers Crop team, I’m just as excited.

For those of you like me who are new to Blue Jeans Go Green, in a nutshell, it’s a denim recycling program that takes used jeans and the like and turns them in to insulation for homes and even meal delivery kits (think Blue Apron). Depending on availability, some of the home insulation even makes it back to Texas through Habitat for Humanity, and it’s the full circle moment that really hits home for me. The cotton in the jeans may or may not have been grown here in Texas, but the farmers, their friends, and family have worn these jeans, supporting their own industry, and are once again repurposing them to insulate homes right in our own back yard.

Farmers Crop Insurance is organizing a Blue Jeans Go Green Drive from January 2 - 27.

Drop Off locations are as follows:

• Farmers Crop Insurance Harlingen

• Farmers Crop Insurance Victoria

• All RGV Credit Union Locations Valleywide

• Bullrider Western Wear

• Cameron County Agrilife Extension Services

On Saturday, January 28th from 11-1 we’ll be accepting drive thru donations at our Harlingen office located at 305 S. Stuart Place, Harlingen, TX.