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Biome Botanicals Enhancing Efficiency and Profitability through Diversification Grant Award: $10,000 Since 2020, Biome Botanicals has been producing medicinal herbs on ¼-acre of land and selling to Asheville Tea Company as well as small local herbalists. The demand for these products … View >>
Moore Natural Farm Expand to Commercial Hay Production and Improve Forage Quality Grant Award: $10,000 In October 2025, Moore Natural Farm sold their beef cattle herd to improve time management and reduce operating costs. After years of producing hay for on-farm … View >>
Scism Farm Cattle Diversification Grant Award: $10,000 Scism Farm has been a large-scale producer of commodity crops such as soybeans, corn, and wheat since the late 1980s. They have also produced 360,000 turkeys per year since then. With the help of … View >>
Ancestral Trout Farm Co. Expansion at Andy’s Trout Farm Grant Award: $10,000 Andy’s Trout Farm focuses on agritourism, including fishing, lodging, and educational experiences, and has been in operation since 1965. Ancestral Trout Farm Co. was founded to serve as the … View >>
The Berry Farm, LLC Irrigation Upgrade and Value-Added Expansions Grant Award: $10,000 The Berry Farm is a Pick-Your-Own farm with an on-site farm stand. After operating for over 25 years the irrigation infrastructure is no longer functioning properly. When she had … View >>
Jessica Wehr, Wehrloom Honey Wehrloom Honey Soda Expansion Grant Award: $8,000 To capture more of the local and regional market, Jessica plans to add soda to their popular lineup of honey products which includes honey, skincare products, beeswax candles, and … View >>
J & M Orchards at Freeman Farms, LLC Bakery Addition Grant Award: $8,000 Jason McCarson & Cheryl McCraw operate a thriving 120-acre apple orchard, home to over 50 varieties, including 20 heirloom types. Since opening their retail roadside market, they’ve … View >>
Clint Cabe, Clint Cabe Farm Corn Storage and Processing Grant Award: $8,000 Clint sells field corn directly to consumers, primarily for wildlife. Without any way to store the corn he grows, he is encountering a bottleneck in his production. … View >>
Emily Driskill, Tanager Plants LLC Nursery Infrastructure Expansion Grant Award: $8,000 Emily utilized her grant to complete two significant expansion projects on her farm. First, she hired a professional to install a 12′ x 20′ propagation greenhouse kit she … View >>
Hassena Kassim, May’s Menagerie, LLC House of Huevos – Laying Hen Expansion Grant Award: $8,000 Hassena used her grant to construct a new 10′ x 24′ chicken coop in order to expand her flock of laying chickens from 50 to … View >>
Tex Teixeira, Nowhere Branch Farm Vermiculture Project Grant Award: $8,000 Tex has set up a vermicompost (a process that uses earthworms and microorganisms to create a valuable soil amendment) system to process manure generated from his herd of beef … View >>
Charles & Mary Beth McCurdy, Brentwood Farm Brentwood Farm Store Freezers & Cooler Grant Award: $8,000 Brentwood Farm, nestled in a rural area 15 miles from the nearest grocery store in Forest City, recognized a growing demand from neighbors … View >>
Brian Tingley, Seven Seeds Farm Improved Soil & Increased Production with BCS Walk-Behind Tractor Grant Award: $8,000 Seven Seeds Farm, an intensively cropped, 1-acre organic market garden, previously relied on leased equipment, including a BCS walk-behind tractor, which required additional … View >>
Alvin Blake Brown, Brown’s Farm Ridge Improving Performance of Grazing System Grant Award: $8,000 Brown’s Farm Ridge (BFR) invested in a no-till drill to reduce production costs by extending their grazing season to late December and to improve nutrition, reproductive … View >>
Chris Sawyer, Jake’s Farm Expansion and Diversification Grant Award: $8,000 Desiring to lower labor demands and increase profits, Chris has begun to transition away from vegetables and has started producing perennial crops such as figs, small fruits, and medicinal herbs. … View >>
Kathleen and Michael Balogh, Mountain Meadows Nursery Nursery Irrigation and Expansion Grant Award: $8,000 Over the 40 years that Mountain Meadows Nursery has been in business, the nursery irrigation source has been the well and pump that also serves the … View >>