2004 County: Avery – WNC AgOptions

2004 Counties

January 4, 2004 by webadmin

2004

Dickie Jarret

Frasier Firs

Topics: Equipment & Supplies | Greenhouse | Nursery | Trees |

Waightstill Avery

Corn Maze

Topics: Choose & Cut | Corn Maze | Diversification | Trees |

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Expanding traditions Family-owned farm in Marion — and known internationally — gets grant for producing more foods

With help from a grant, a family-owned and operated farm plans to increase its production of rice and other foods here in the fields of McDowell County. Lee’s One Fortune Farm, which has been featured in the national news media,... Read more →

2023 Grantees Announced!

2023 grant awards will support projects that improve efficiencies on the farm to increase income, allow for growth and provide additional benefits in the communities where the grantees farm. Over half of the awarded projects will be investing in equipment... Read more →

2023 Grant Cycle CLOSED

The 2023 WNC AgOptions grant cycle is closed Please check back in March for the list of the 2023 grantees The 2024 cycle will launch in late summer 2023. Please email us HERE to be notified! Read more →

2021 Recipient: The AppaLatin Farmstead

Stephanie Vinat, The AppaLatin Farmstead The AppaLatin Farm Building Grant Award: $6,000 In 2020, AppaLatin Farmstead purchased a 10-foot by 24-foot building for the farm and had it wired with electricity. In 2021 with her grant, Stephanie has added water... Read more →

2021 Recipient: SKYe2Farm

Charles King, SKYe2 Farm Electricity to Drying Container and Greenhouse Grant Award: $6,000 To help meet growing demand for its high revenue-producing dried hemp, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, hops and seed, and to increase production of cut flowers and vegetable crops,... Read more →

2023 Recipient: Clinton Walker and Debbie Brentlinger, North Carolina Kikos

Clinton Walker and Debbie Brentlinger, North Carolina Kikos Project Kiko Cash Grant Award: $8,000 NC Kikos provides registered breed stock selected from top blood lines of 100% purebred New Zealand Kiko meat goats. To provide the proven pedigree of the... Read more →