
Photo courtesy of The Utopian Seed Project.
- Bounty & Soul
Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford, and Transylvania counties
Grant Amount: $35,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to support Produce to the People and Farmers Alliance, two programs that address the intersection of food, farms and health. - The Utopian Seed Project
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $40,000
Fiscal Year 2023
to support its work to develop a resilient regional food and farming system through research, education, and promotion of biodiversity. - Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $8,500
Fiscal Year 2023
to engage HunterKemper Consulting to assist in conducting a staff engagement and visioning process that will help ASAP continue its successful work after a period of organizational transition. - Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $80,000 over two years
Fiscal Year 2022
to support farm viability by connecting farmers with consumer demand through its Farm Fresh for Health initiative. - Bounty & Soul
Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford, and Transylvania counties
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fiscal Year 2022
to support two of its “pillar programs”: Produce to the People™ and Farmers Alliance, programs that address food, farms, and health through a lens of equity and inclusion. - MANNA FoodBank
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $50,000
Fiscal Year 2022
to cover program, operational, and food purchase costs of its mobile food programs. - Organic Growers School
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fiscal Year 2022
to implement programming that provides WNC farmers with individualized support, advanced education, and mentoring services to enhance farmer success and sustainability. - Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional (TRACTOR)
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $45,000
Fiscal Year 2022
for general operating funds to support the implementation of a universal community-grown food share program. - The Utopian Seed Project
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $30,000
Fiscal Year 2022
to fund the outfitting of an on-farm greenhouse and to assist with general operating expenses. - Macon County Public Health (as the fiscal sponsor for MountainWise)
Buncombe, Jackson, Haywood, Transylvania, Madison, and Rutherford counties
Grant Amount: $41,000
Fiscal Year 2021
to support the continuation of the Double Up Food Bucks program in Buncombe, Jackson, Haywood, Transylvania, Madison, and Rutherford counties. - Organic Growers School
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $25,000
Fiscal Year 2021
for general operating support, including support for programming that provides WNC farmers with individualized support, advanced education, and mentoring services to enhance farmer success and sustainability. - Organic Growers School (on behalf of the WNC Food Justice Planning Initiative)
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $20,000
Fiscal Year 2021
to fund the second phase of this collaborative regional project to create a thriving and resilient local food system with food justice for all in WNC. - The Utopian Seed Project
WNC Region
Grant Amount: $30,000
Fiscal Year 2021
to assist with general operating expenses in order to develop a regional seed hub that can support, encourage, and celebrate a diverse food system of regionally-adapted crops.
Food and Farming Grant History