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WNC Agricultural Options’ 10th annual grant cycle is underway. With funding from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, WNC AgOptions will award a total of $153,000 to diversifying farmers in Western North Carolina in 2014. Farmers have until Dec. 13 … View >>

FOREST CITY — WNC Agricultural Options’ 10th annual grant cycle is underway. With funding from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, WNC AgOptions will award a total of $153,000 to diversifying farmers in western North Carolina in 2014. Farmers have … View >>

Farmers using new ideas for crops can apply for grants that reward diversifying. —Hendersonville Lightning, Sept. 24, 2013. (Read more).

WNC Agricultural Options’ 10th annual grant cycle is underway. With funding from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, WNC AgOptions will award a total of $153,000 to diversifying farmers in western North Carolina in 2014. Farmers have until December 13 to submit … View >>

Three farmers received grants totaling $15,000 from North Carolina Cooperative Extension for projects designed to diversify their operations in 2013. In total, 28 farmers in Western North Carolina received grants totaling $148,500. The three Avery County recipients were Jack Wiseman … View >>

Western North Carolina farmers received $148,500 in WNC Agricultural Options grants to diversify their farm businesses in the 2013 growing season (Read more). —High Country Press, January 30, 2013

Farm works to lower cattle size. Sweet Grass Farm owners Randy and Megan Smith plan to put a Grant Award: $6,000 WNC Agricultural Options grant to use by purchasing a chest freezer for retail grass-fed beef sales and a registered … View >>

Four local farmers were among the recipients of $148,500 in WNC Agricultural Options grants to diversify farm businesses in the 2013 growing season. The 28 grant recipients celebrated Tuesday at an event at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension … View >>

Grants boost farm profits, sustain businesses for future generations. Projects include hydroponic fodder system, micropropagation lab and no-till equipment. —Mountain Xpress, January 30, 2013. (Read more).

Owners look to carry on farm’s family heritage. Randy Smith clacks a white plastic bucket against the fencing in his backyard and calls for three calves standing on a distant hill. These three calves, about 8 months old, will soon … View >>

A longtime staple in several local homes and businesses, the rainbow trout from Sunburst Trout Farm will be penetrating a new market in country clubs and long-term care facilities in the Southeast thanks to the help from two grants. —Mountaineer, … View >>

Appalachian Botanical Alliance will pioneer a program for medicinal-herb growers. What the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) has done for the appreciation and consumption of local food, the Appalachian Botanical Alliance hopes to do for medicinal herb growers. —Carolina Home … View >>

The Jackson County Farmers’ Market is among three farm groups and 23 farmers throughout Western North Carolina that were awarded $150,000 through this year’s WNC Agricultural Options program. In conjunction with the Community Table, the Farmers’ Market will open a … View >>

In the world of agriculture, sometimes a little can go a long way. That’s what owners of three area farms are hoping for after receiving Grant Award: $6,000 grants through the annual WNC AgOptions program. —BlueRidgeNow.com Times-News Online, Ferbruary 1, … View >>

Small farmers needing help might just find the financial boost they need through WNC Agricultural Options. The group this year will award $150,000 to 35 or so farm businesses and farmer-led groups. Smoky Mountain News, November 9, 2011. (Read more).