Project Grant AM200100XXXXG163

The Food Connects Inc. was awarded a $380,021 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to innovate supply chains and increase institutional, local food purchasing in central New England through September 2025. The overall goal of the project is to leverage existing relationships to drive greater demand for regionally produced foods in institutions, expand sales capacity into new...

This $666,300 block grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service will fund the Boston Area Gleaners Inc. to develop a regional food hub network across the six New England states. Under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill (SCBGP-FB, CFDA 10.170), the project aims to transform regional food hub capabilities and connect producers, distributors, food hubs, enterprises and customers into a single distribution network. Key deliverables...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $439,788 Project Grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to increase farm sales to institutions in New Hampshire. The University of New Hampshire, acting through its Office of Sponsored Research, will leverage opportunities like the new NH Food Hub Network and relatively new Seacoast School Buying Group to more easily develop buying and selling relationships between farms, food hubs, and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded Seacoast Eat Local, Inc., a non-profit organization in Lee, New Hampshire, a $125,000 project grant under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175). The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will fund the creation and implementation of a marketing plan for four outdoor summer farmers markets in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and Maine. Additionally, the project will redesign the Seacoast...

This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service provides $970,698 to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to support the Regional Food System Partnerships program. The award will fund a partnership between fishing associations, non-profit organizations, lenders, seafood businesses and others to strengthen the regional seafood system in New England through October 2024. Services delivered under the award include improving quality...

The Hope & Main organization will receive $609,225 from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) to support direct-to-consumer marketing of locally processed food products made by members of Hope & Main, Rhode Island's premier food business incubator. The project aims to promote and expand local and regional food systems through coordinated marketing efforts for food entrepreneurs participating...

The Community Shellfish Company, LLC received a $568,136 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support the launch of Merroir.me, a new digital brand experience and direct-to-consumer marketing campaign to promote Maine seafood products in Connecticut and Rhode Island through 2024. Specifically, Community Shellfish Company will produce original videos, a website and...

Boston Area Gleaners Inc. received a $564,801 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to operate its Boston Food Hub program from September 30, 2021 to September 29, 2024. The Boston Food Hub program aggregates and markets surplus produce and other agricultural products from regional farms in Eastern Massachusetts that would otherwise go to waste, to increase sales...

The Maine Organic Milk Company LLC (MOM Co.) received a $808,663 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) to develop a Maine-branded organic dairy product line. MOM Co. will source organic milk from Cropp Cooperative/Organic Valley, Maine's largest organic dairy processor, which will transport the raw milk via M.A. Haskell Trucking to Pineland Farms Dairy Company for...

The $614,871.41 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) will enhance Rhode Island's mid-tier value chain and regional food system through the "Grow Together RI" initiative. The project, awarded to the non-profit organization Hope & Main, aims to provide production support, business assistance, and sales opportunities to producers and processors engaged in...