PHOTOS: Colorado’s senators join Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in tour of farm, food bank

By Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics 06/20/2020 | updated 6 years ago

Sen. Cory Gardner, left, joins Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Senator Michael Bennet, right, in a round table discussion at Marc Arnusch Farms. Gardner was spending time touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 19, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. Gardner, Perdue and other officials visit Marc Arnusch Farms in Keenesburg as well as Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet joined Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and other officials in a visit of Marc Arnusch Farms in Keenesburg before going to the Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver.

Sen. Cory Gardner spends time touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, right, on June 19, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. Gardner, Perdue, Sen. Michael Bennet and other officials visited Marc Arnusch Farms in Keenesburg and Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Sen. Michael Bennet joins in a roundtable discussion at Marc Arnusch Farms. Bennet joined Sen. Cory Gardner in touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 19, 2020, in Keenesburg. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Sen. Cory Gardner, left, joins Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Sen. Michael Bennet, right, in a round table discussion at Marc Arnusch Farms. Gardner was spending time touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 19, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Sen. Cory Gardner, joins Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Sen. Michael Bennet, in a round table discussion at Marc Arnusch Farms. Gardner was spending time touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 19, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Sen. Cory Gardner talks with Food Bank of the Rockies CEO Erin Pulling, while touring the state with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on June 19, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, left, addresses a small group of officials at Food Bank of the Rockies while touring the state with Sen. Cory Gardner on June 19, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue addresses a small group of officials at Food Bank of the Rockies while touring the state with Senator Cory Gardner on June 19, 2020, in Denver, Colorado. (Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics)

Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics

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