Elemental Acres will convert our insulated processing room into a dual-zone refrigerated workspace using two CoolBot-controlled mini-split systems and install an overhead rail for hanging carcasses. This project will allow us to safely maintain 38 -40°F, double in-house production capacity, create a living-wage rural job, and strengthen the economic engine that funds our nationally significant Meishan breed preservation work.

To open the first and only natural tannery in Washington State! My proposal is to build a natural tannery on my farm for processing my own sheepskins and opening my doors for education and custom hide tanning for other farms. The infrastructure proposed in this grant would mechanize the tedious process of bark-tanning sheepskins, be an extra income stream, and build a core asset of the farm.

Appalachian Ohio farmers will build community and improve income through supported seed growing and processing.

Building a permanent public education space on our farm to provide a large covered area for both children and adults to learn. This structure will allow us to increase farm revenue and community outreach by expanding our current Farm School sessions, developing sessions for adults to learn skills to increase food security, and hosting events for the public to learn about agriculture.

Good Cheer seeks funding to construct a packing shed to support its Farm and Garden program. Our farm produces over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce annually on 1.25 acres and supplies the organization’s Food Pantry year-round. A dedicated packing shed will provide a protected space to clean, sort, and package produce efficiently, improving food safety, workflow, and working conditions while increasing the amount of fresh, locally grown food available to community members.

This project will expand cold storage at Abounding Acres through a walk-in cooler built from a repurposed insulated shipping container and mini-split powered by a CoolBot system. By properly storing our USDA Certified Organic produce, we can reduce waste, extend harvest life, drive growth, and share more fresh, local food with our community.

We want to replace mowing with our tractor with grazing sheep. We must keep the grass short to keep our rotated, pastured chickens healthy and the sheep would rotate with the chickens, and also provide meat for us to sell.

Utilizing the new technology of virtual fence collars to more efficiently move my rotationally-grazed beef cattle up to twice a day to a new paddock of fresh grass. With three different herds grazing across 10 different farm pastures in 4 different towns that are as far as 25 minutes away from where I live, the benefit of being able to move my cattle to new pastures without physically moving the fence would be revolutionary.

Firelight Farm seeks a $10,000 grant to purchase a refrigerated cargo van for a cooperative delivery service. This service directly addresses the primary challenge for small Central Arkansas farms: inefficient market access due to geographic isolation. Consolidating deliveries into weekly routes will increase profitability for individual wholesale relationships by sharing costs and freeing up farmers' time. The service will also provide wholesale customers with better access to a broader, more d

Black Bear Soups is a value-added business that will create a new, year-round market outlet for Trust Land Farm’s produce with the manufacturing and distribution of soups. Packaging design is the next step in this product's development to get farm-grown soups on Montana shelves. The For Farmer’s $10k grant would be used to design product packaging, nutritional testing of soup recipes, and purchasing of packaging for batch testing soups made from our farm-grown vegetables.

Cayuta Sun Farm will use the funds to demonstrate and support safe farrowing practices by funding the distribution of farrowing rails to pastured pig farmers. The grant will help finance the enterprise at our farm in New York by subsidizing the cost of farrowing rails. Making these huts more economically viable will encourage more pasture pig farms to use this feature, preventing the deaths of thousands of piglets over many years.

Resilient Roots will strengthen JFRAI Family Farms’ climate-smart infrastructure by upgrading irrigation, enhancing greenhouse climate control, and improving post-harvest systems. This investment increases year-round production stability, reduces crop loss from extreme weather, and expands reliable food access in underserved Southern Maryland and Washington, DC. The project builds long-term resilience while stabilizing farm income and CSA supply.

I raise pasture-based lamb in Northwest Washington without owning a single acre of pasture, operating a proven multi-site grazing enterprise on 100% leased land. This project funds mobile transport, handling, and fencing systems that unlock regenerative grazing across commercial farms and underutilized pasture. The infrastructure will improve animal welfare, scale local lamb production to meet demand, and create shared capacity to strengthen multiple small sheep operations.

Advancing small-scale dairy in New Jersey through data-driven micro-dairy development and value-added production, Fluffy Farms is establishing baseline milk production data prior to genetic herd improvement and the transition to silvopasture. This project will support commercial milking readiness, strengthen farm viability through diversified goat-milk products, and generate practical insights to inform future dairy expansion statewide. Building a scalable model lowering barriers to entry.

We are applying for this grant to support the launch of our new goat‑milk caramel, Cajeta. Funding will help cover the cost of essential kitchen upgrades and the specialized equipment required to meet Texas Department of State Health Services inspection standards. This support will ensure we can produce Cajeta safely, efficiently, and in full compliance as we expand our farm’s value‑added offerings.

Haven Honey Farms will build a 20x40 covered workshop space to expand community education and launch an on-site beekeeping mentorship program for individuals without land access. We will also expand our existing off-site mentorship program by fully sponsoring BIPOC mentees with complete hive setups, year-long education, and 24/7 support. Each healthy hive produces 40–60 pounds of honey annually, creating pathways to agricultural income and community economic resilience.

This project will apply grant funding toward the purchase of a commercial egg washer to expand capacity at our WSDA-licensed processing facility. The washer removes a key bottleneck limiting pasture-based egg production, enabling regenerative land management through laying hens while supporting wholesale markets. Increased capacity strengthens our shared processing model, improves efficiency, reduces waste, and helps keep more food production and processing local.

We are a pasture-based dairy goat farm and farmstead creamery in Illinois. With this grant, we will establish a silvopasture grazing system by planting shade and forage trees, protecting them with tubes, and installing paddock irrigation to support establishment. The work will be implemented across two grazing areas so it functions as a complete, working model. This project will improve goat comfort during extreme heat, strengthen pasture resilience, and create a system we can expand across our

Pleasant Grove Homestead seeks funding to purchase a commercial egg washing system for our flock of approximately 900 pasture-raised laying hens. This equipment will eliminate a major labor bottleneck by reducing egg handling time and allowing washing to occur during regular work hours. The project will strengthen farm sustainability and support continued access to affordable, locally produced eggs in rural Iowa.

Working Dog Farms seeks the necessary funds to build a chicken neighborhood consisting of five mobile chicken trailers surrounded by electric fencing to double our flock size and better meet our demand for fresh eggs. We will purchase the materials to construct the mobile coops following a plan created from our most recent coop build, which we derived from years of trial and error in mobile chicken coop building.