The Food Well Alliance is seeking applications for its 2023 Farm Grants program to provide resources and support to local growers to connect and build healthier communities.
Donor Name: Food Well Alliance
State: Georgia
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Details:
Thriving farms are the center of any robust local food system. The skill, dedication, and passion of local farmers as food producers nourishing Atlanta’s communities, educators, community builders, and environmental stewards not only inspire and motivate us, but are vital to a local food system that can feed us all. Still, small-scale, sustainable farms can struggle with funding and capital to address their needs in order to improve their farm operations. Since 2015, Food Well Alliance has supported more than 50 metro Atlanta farms with over $2.4 million dollars in direct funding to help farmers address the needs of their farm operations.
Funding Information
In 2023, Food Well Alliance will deploy $260,000 in direct funding under 2 grant categories that farmers can apply for:
- Farm Support Grant –
- This category is a $7,000 grant to reach a relatively large number of farms to address their needs around completing farm infrastructure projects; purchasing tools, equipment, or materials (for improved efficiency & yields, season extension, etc.); improving or expanding production areas; accessing professional services; and supporting farm personnel costs.
- Farm Forward Grant –
- This $25,000 grant is intended to help a farm move forward in their work growing food by addressing a larger farm improvement project. Applications for this grant should be project-focused, but a request can include various components to address farm needs through things like purchasing tools, equipment, or materials; improving or expanding production areas; accessing professional services; and supporting farm personnel costs.
Farms located in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, or Gwinnett counties can apply to both opportunities, but will only be awarded one category of support. As in previous grant opportunities, how farms use the grant to support their farm operations will be up to them. The grant application will give farmers the opportunity to outline their top needs or obstacles they face in their farm operations and describe how the grant can support them in addressing those needs.
Eligibility Criteria
This grant is a farm-focused opportunity. The 2023 Farm Grants are open to registered farm operations (farm businesses/enterprises or nonprofit farm organizations) located in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties. This grant is intended to support farms that serve the public by consistently making their produce or farm products available to the public through means such as: selling at a local farmers market, through a CSA-style program, direct to local consumers (farm stand, online sales, or other direct means), through donation, and/or through other sales channels (local retail, restaurants, etc.).
- Registered farm operations (farm businesses/enterprises & nonprofit farms) located in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, or Gwinnett counties.
- Farms that consistently make their food and farm products available for community consumption through means such as: selling at a local farmers market, through a CSA-style program, direct to local consumers (farm stand, online sales, or other direct means), through donation, and/or through other sales channels (local retail, restaurants, etc.).
- Farms that can provide a business license, registration of organization, or tax-exempt status documentation (There is space within the application to upload documentation).
- Funds should be used by the farm by October 31, 2023, when farms will need to submit a brief report on the use of their Farm Support Grant & how it supported their farm.
For more information, visit Food Well Alliance.
