This $300,000 three-year federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.311 Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program) will fund the Mountain Roots NextGen Regen Beginning Farmer Training Program - Solutions for Resilience in a Changing Climate. Over 2025-2027, this program will provide comprehensive training, education, mentorship, and hands-on experience to 60 aspiring agrarians in regenerative and hydroponic...
This Project Grant award of $507,873 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311) will support the "Small Farm Innovation on the Prairie" initiative led by the Innovation And Education Prairie Rose Agricultural Institute For Research. The project aims to: Offer training opportunities at Prairie Rose Farm on topics such as pastured chickens, sorghum, organic production, and season extension through moveable high tunnels....
This $381,173 project grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311), will train 500 beginning farmers in New Hampshire to become more climate-ready. The project aims to help these farmers develop crop/animal loss and emergency response plans, connect them with federal/state programs to adopt climate-smart farming practices, and train them to adapt their sales and...
This $750,000 federal project grant awarded by the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311) will fund a collaborative effort led by the North Coast Growers Association (NCGA) and its partners to support beginning farmers and ranchers in California's Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The project will create a new 15-month Climate Resilient Farmer Training Program and provide...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $749,689 Project Grant under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311) to Renewing Countryside II on September 1, 2021 for completion by August 31, 2024. The grant will support the "Expanding Integrated Solutions to Achieve Farmland Access for New Farmers" project, led by Renewing Countryside II in partnership with Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service and Practical...
The Institute of Food Production and Sustainability, a USDA agency, awarded The Farm Collaborative, a non-profit organization in Colorado, a $928,183 Project Grant under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The grant will fund a 3-year initiative to launch a comprehensive farmer training program in Western Colorado focused on serving beginning and under-resourced farmers. The program includes a heavily evaluated apprenticeship for beginning farmers with 1-3 years...
This $748,733 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311) supports Quivira Coalition, a non-profit organization, in providing services to beginning ranchers and farmers in the arid western United States. The project aims to: 1) increase the number of individuals entering large-acreage ranching and farming careers in the West; 2) improve the success of beginning...
This three-year, $746,176 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) will fund the Regional Resilience: An Integrated Approach to New Farmer Training in the Chesapeake project. Delivered by Future Harvest Inc. from Cockeysville, Maryland, this project aims to strengthen and diversify the new farmer pipeline across the Chesapeake region through integrated in-person and online farmer...
This $10,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports the development and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices in Midwestern U.S. cropping systems. The project is led by The Ohio State University with several sub-awardees, including Solutions From The Land, University of Missouri, Lincoln University, and Central State University. The key products and services being delivered under this award include: Establishing...
This $750,000 Project Grant was awarded on September 15, 2023 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The grant recipient, Trustees of Tufts College doing business as Tufts University School of Medicine, will use the funding to operate a comprehensive incubator farm training program for historically underserved producers in Eastern Massachusetts. Key project goals include...
This federal Project Grant award of $748,960 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The grant will be implemented by Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc. and This Old Farm, Inc. from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026.
The project, titled "Weathering Change: Holistic Farm Training for Financial and Environmental Resilience," will provide financial management training, climate change education, and land-based technical assistance to new and beginning farmers in the central and upper Midwest region. The goal is to help these farmers, especially those implementing or planning to implement regenerative agriculture practices such as pasture-based livestock production and diversified vegetable production, to manage viable and economically stable farm businesses that are resilient to climate change-induced weather changes while producing high-quality food using regenerative farming methods.