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Emily Patrick, Carolina Flowers Dried Flower Processing Chamber Grant Award: $8,000 Carolina Flowers will add a dried flower processing chamber to their operation to increase dried flower production. The dried flower processing chamber will be an insulated structure with temperature … View >>
Joan Walker, Fiddlesticks Farm Season Extension Infrastructure Improvements Grant Award: $8,000 Fiddlesticks Farm is a mama-owned small farm in Alexander, NC focused on producing high-quality flowers, salad greens and vegetables using sustainable, regenerative methods. Joan and her family started the … View >>
Mandy Hornick, Blue Ridge Blooms Caterpillar Tunnels Grant Award: $8,000 The addition of two covered 50′ high tunnels will enable Blue Ridge Blooms to extend their season of spring flowers and produce a better quality crop than could be grown … View >>
Maxine Hodges, Blossom Ridge Orchard Apple, Berry, and Flower Irrigation System Grant Award: $8,000 Maxine, her son and daughter-in-law will add blackberries, raspberries, and a high-density apple orchard to diversify their current beef cattle operation. In the spring of 2023 … View >>
Cheryl Judge-Decker, Paint Horse Flower Farm Greenhouse to Expand Production Grant Award: $8,000 To create a more sustainable and expanded operation, Paint Horse Flower Farm has installed a 16′ x 32′ high-side greenhouse, including shutter fans and a gas heater, … View >>
Sarah Lasswell, Moss & Thistle Farm WNC-Grown Willow for Sustainable Caskets Grant Award: $8,000 After planting two rows of willow for erosion control as part of her 2019 AgOptions grant, Sarah began to research uses for willow rods and discovered … View >>
Loretta Ball, The Never Ending Flower Farm Bathroom and Farm Store Grant Award: $8,000 Loretta has constructed a building on her farm that houses a bathroom and a small farm store space where visitors can shop and get supplies to … View >>
Nicolette Irving, Flourish Flower Farm Flourish Flower Farm Stand Grant Award: $8,000 Flourish Flower Farm used their 2020 AgOptions grant to purchase a walk-in cooler which enabled them to increase the quality and quantity of the flowers they provided to … View >>
Suzanne Nolter, Blazing Star Flowers Multi-Use Canopy Structure Grant Award: $8,000 Suzanne’s current location at the SAHC Community Farm requires her to drive offsite to arrange flowers and conduct workshops. Desiring to create a more productive, efficient, and comfortable … View >>
Ray Nations, Ray’s Florist & Greenhouse Back-up Heating For Greenhouse Grant Award: $8,000 Ray has added a generator and regulator for back-up heat to his greenhouse. The generator will power his whole facility if the power goes out for more … View >>
Regina Jodie McCord, Great Blue Farms Seed to Bloom to Bouquet Grant Award: $8,000 Having grown up on her family’s tobacco/vegetable farm, Jodie has been growing annuals, perennials, bi-annuals and shrubs for weddings and events on the same farm since … View >>
Gary and Abigail Steiner, Bee-utiful Farm and Garden Greenhouse Upgrade and Expansion Grant Award: $8,000 With the ultimate goal of moving to full-time farming, the Steiners have upgraded an existing 5-year-old greenhouse with more plant growing space in order to … View >>
Sarah Coury and Ben Pick, Saturnia Farm Nursery, Flower & Farm Goods Delivery Service Grant Award: $6,000 In spring of 2020 as the COVID-19 crisis was unfolding, Saturnia Farm started a plant delivery service between Waynesville and Asheville. An immediate … View >>
Ray Nations, Ray’s Florist & Greenhouse Posey Patch Flower Farm Grant Award: $6,000 Ray is expanding his established florist, garden center and greenhouse business by adding a cut-flower operation and increasing his current mist-propagation system for vegetable transplants and flower … View >>
Daniel and Lori Cabe, The Flower Company Walk-in Flower Cooler Grant Award: $6,000 For their cut-flower farm and florist business, Daniel and Lori will purchase a 12-foot by 9-foot by 14-foot, four-door, walk-in flower cooler with glass reach-in doors for … View >>
Jerry W. Causby, Causby Greenhouse Greenhouse Improvements Grant Award: $6,000 Once a thriving greenhouse business and an important part of the community, production at Causby Greenhouse has decreased over the past years. In order to increase production of vegetables and … View >>