The FruitGuys Community Fund is currently accepting applications to award grants to small farms and agricultural nonprofits that support sustainable agriculture projects with large positive impacts on the environment, local food webs, and farm diversity.
Donor Name: The FruitGuys Community Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/30/2023
Details:
Preferences for 2023
Projects are scored on their impact to help farms operate more sustainably as well as strengthen community, including but not limited to:
- Water Conservation (for example, drip irrigation & rainwater catchment)
- Natural Pest Control (for example, owl or bat boxes)
- Pollination (for example, beehives & pollinator hedgerows)
- Soil Health (for example, cover crops & minimizing tillage)
- Energy Efficiency (for example, renewable energy options like solar, geothermal & wind)
- Heirlooms (for example, not using GMO seed, saving heirloom seeds, using heritage varieties)
- Increase Low-Income Consumers’ Access to food (for example, expanding free or low-cost CSA shares)
- Equity, Community Building & Education (for example, sustainability education for new farmers, students, refugees, etc.)
- Support beginning and under-represented farmers including BIPOC and women
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant is an owner/operator of the farm or has long-term, legal access to the land. If farming on leased land, a letter of support from the landowner specifying length of the lease agreement must be provided with the grant application.
- Agricultural nonprofits are also encouraged to apply.
- The applicant farm must be an established working farm with at least 1 year of experience that is looking to improve operations.
- They welcome farms to re-apply for the same project or a different one if you have not been funded in an earlier grant cycle.
- Farm is small to medium-sized as determined by acreage in agricultural production. Farms with more than 300 acres in agricultural production are ineligible to apply.
What TFCF will not Fund
- Non soil-based farming operations (i.e. hydroponic/aquaponic growing systems)
- Land purchases
- Costs associated with labor (your project budget should only include materials and supplies)
- Projects that require a percentage of the award be used for consultants or administration
- Requests that are dependent upon receiving funding from a separate, larger grant
- General marketing costs
- They’re not currently considering applications from farms that have already received a FGCF grant.
For more information, visit The FruitGuys Community Fund.
