Project Grant 15FMPPCO0150

The North Union Farmers Market was awarded a $333,552.62 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support the North Union Farmers Market's Time to Grow farmer technical training program, which will provide business planning, marketing, and technical skills workshops to small farmers in Northeast Ohio. The program aims to strengthen the farmers' business capacities and help...

The Brookland Center for Community Economic Change (BCCEC) will utilize $320,656 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to support its Growing Capacity & Strength through Local Food Channels program from September 2021 through September 2024. The BCCEC, located in West Columbia, South Carolina, will use the funding to develop, coordinate and expand local and regional food systems through initiatives...

Community Farmers Markets Inc. received a $922,145.80 three-year Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. Through this funding, Community Farmers Markets will deliver a holistic, four-pronged approach to growing local food systems and removing barriers to food access in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Specifically, the organization will expand local food distribution through farmers...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Urban Harvest Inc. a $373,376.25 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support Urban Harvest's "Grow Resilience" strategy to assist the recovery of local farms and food businesses in Houston impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and Winter Storm Uri. Key services include providing economic support to small farmers, ranchers and food businesses; connecting underserved...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $380,251 Project Grant to Plant It Forward under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support Plant It Forward's efforts to ensure the long-term success and financial self-sufficiency of its food hub, which serves socially disadvantaged farmers in central, east, and south Texas. Key deliverables include developing a business plan to close the food hub's budget deficit within five years and...

The Lexington Farmers Market Inc. was awarded $509,024 under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) CFDA 10.175 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service to expand farmers market access and promote local agriculture in Davidson County, North Carolina through September 2024. Specifically, the two existing farmers markets in Lexington and Thomasville will establish a new year-round winter market and add pop-up mid-week and evening...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $410,647 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to support Cobblestone Farmers Market in increasing its capacity. The three-year award running from September 2021 through September 2024 will fund targeted marketing, vendor recruitment of new and socially disadvantaged farmers, and strategic planning activities. Specifically, a robust marketing campaign aims to re-grow customer awareness and...

The Allen Neighborhood Center received a $394,449.90 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to support relocation and expansion of services at the Allen Farmers Market in Lansing, Michigan. Funding will allow relocation of the 18-year-old year-round farmers market to a new mixed-use development called Allen Place featuring 21 apartments, a federally qualified health clinic serving...

The Common Market Georgia, Incorporated was awarded a $828,602.40 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to expand its farm-to-institution model in Georgia and Alabama. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit local food distributor founded in 2016, Common Market connects communities to sustainable family farms in the Southeast through its wholesale food distribution services. It sources fresh produce,...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $588,625 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to Friends of Zenger Farm. The grant will support the expansion of direct-to-consumer market activity by training over 60 beginning Black, Indigenous and farmers of color over three years. Zenger Farm will provide a beginning farmer program and the Come Thru Market will give emerging vendors, including Zenger Farm beginning farmers, an...