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John Dugan and David Anderson, Dugan Farms Food Safety Produce Packing Shed Grant Award: $6,000 Dugan Farms currently has no way to meet GAP and other food-safety requirements and there are no packing and washing sheds available to farmers on … View >>
John Dugan and David Anderson, Dugan Farms Soil Spader for Sustainable Management and Soil Health Grant Award: $6,000 Dugan Farms purchased a soil spader to assist with soil cultivation on their 15-acre farm. With the addition of the soil spader … View >>
John Dugan and David Anderson, Dugan Farms Mechanical Cultivation for Sustainable Weed Management Grant Award: $6,000 John and David purchased a mechanical cultivator to assist in weed management on their 10-acre vegetable farm. The two-person operation used to manage weeds … View >>
Harold and Nancy Long, Long Family Farms and Gallery Mushroom and Medicinal Extracts and Oils Grant Award: $3,000 Harold and Nancy will be diversifying their farm business with the addition of a mushroom and medicinal plant dehydration and extraction operation. … View >>
Danny and Krista Lambert, Lambert Farms Wood Chips and Manure Composting Grant Award: $6,000 The Lamberts are employing a wood chip/manure composting system on their farm to support the production of sustainably raised grass-fed beef, pastured chickens, pastured pork and … View >>
John H. McCoy, Smoky Mountain Trout Farm Solar Energy for Healthy Food Grant Award: $6,000 John is expanding his trout farm with the installation of 12 solar panels to power demand feeders and bug zappers on ten trout raceways. Demand … View >>
Danny and Krista Lambert Lambert Farms Grant Award: $6,000 — Grass-fed Beef Managed Intensive Grazing and Pastured Poultry Processing Danny and Krista are improving their grass-fed beef grazing system by adding the ability to overseed pastures. By maximizing intensive management … View >>
Mary Ann Thompson Traditional Delicacies Grant Award: $3,000 — Traditional Cherokee Delicacies Mary Ann recently started her forest delicacies business selling frozen and canned wild greens. She is also raising mountain crawfish, a traditional Cherokee forest food, in small-scale contained … View >>
Danny and Krista Lambert Beef Expansion – Grant Award: $6,000 The Lamberts, who grew tobacco in the 1970s, have raised livestock since the 1980s. With their award, they will expand their small grass-fed beef operation by clearing brush, adding fence, … View >>
Mick Rattler Job’s Tears (Coix Lacryma-jobi) – Grant Award: $3,000 Mick has raised a variety of vegetables, fruits and livestock since the 1960s With his award, Mick will cultivate Job’s Tears, a plant that produces a seed used as a … View >>
Harold and Nancy Long of the Cherokee Reservation are growing organic and heirloom tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and berries for local restaurants and tailgate markets. Harold has grown vegetables using traditional Cherokee methods since 1962. They prefer heirloom varieties so that … View >>
Joseph and Catt RedCloud of the Cherokee Reservation are expanding their herbal salves and syrups business with their grant. They offer educational workshops that highlight native Cherokee growing traditions. EBCI Contact the Local Extension Agent
Crop Diversification Kevin Welch of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has used the WNC Ag Options Grant to help establish a container gardening business. Kevin currently works with the Cherokee Preservation Foundation to revive traditional Cherokee garden crops … View >>