Project Grant 15FMPPMO0012

Just Greens LLC, doing business as Aerofarms, received a $594,974 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. The award funds research into implementing ratooning, a proven technique allowing one root and stem system to produce multiple harvests, in the indoor production of leafy greens. Phase I of the project studied...

Grow It Forward Inc. was awarded a $141,416 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production federal grant program (CFDA 10.935). The grant will fund GIF'S PROGRAMMING TARGETS LOW-INCOME, FOOD INSECURE, ISOLATED, ANDUNDERSERVED RESIDENTS OF MANITOWOC COUNTY from July 14, 2022 to June 14, 2025. Specifically, the funding will support Grow It Forward Inc.'s efforts to encourage and promote urban, indoor,...

The federal Project Grant award of $749,998.00 from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311) will support the expansion of the Growing Growers KC program in Kansas and Missouri. The program aims to: (1) increase the number of educated and supported beginning farmers, (2) expand the diversity of program participants, (3) develop a regional grower database, (4) create urban agriculture...

Project Grows, Inc. received a $445,500 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to expand direct-to-consumer markets in the Central Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. The project aims to increase market access for small, beginning, and socially disadvantaged farmers as well as traditionally underserved and low-income communities through initiatives such as launching a...

Grow2Zero Farms was awarded a $291,871 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service. The funding supports the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production federal grant program. Through this award, Grow2Zero Farms will develop a hybrid online and in-person urban farm training program for young adults in Long Beach and the greater Los Angeles South Bay area. The program aims to expand Grow2Zero's current agricultural education services...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Planting Justice $703,025 under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to establish new market access opportunities for small local growers in the Bay Area through September 2024. The project will operate a farmers' market truck serving stops in Oakland and Richmond, establishing market access for at least five growers and serving an estimated 15,600 customers annually. A weekly farmers' market will also be...

The Grow DAT Youth Farm will provide a mobile food access expansion project responding to unhealthy relationships to local food systems experienced by young adults in New Orleans through expanding access to affordable, culturally relevant, nutrient-rich foods. Funded through a $298,551 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service's Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production program (CFDA 10.935), the project will operate from September 2022 through...

The National Resources Conservation Service awarded a $298,601 project grant to The Giving Grove under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production program. The grant aims to increase access to local food and provide culturally relevant options that also create economic opportunities for urban farmers in Missouri. Specifically, The Giving Grove will work to encourage and promote urban, indoor, and emerging agricultural practices including community gardens and farms located in urban areas and...

This $900,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) will fund the "Growing Justice" program implemented by Impact Justice, a national nonprofit focused on advancing equity and justice reforms. The award will support the establishment of a prison-based vertical farming job training program at the Camille Graham Correctional Facility in Columbia, South Carolina. The program will provide a 200-hour training...

Johnny's Selected Seeds, an employee-owned company based in Waterville, Maine, received a $100,004.43 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an electric greens spinner for small and mid-size farms growing leafy greens. Under the SBIR/STTR Program (Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program, CFDA #10.212), Johnny's will design and fabricate a prototype mid-capacity electric greens spinner...