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Ivy Creek Family Farm Cooling for the Present and Future Grant Award: $10,000 Ivy Creek Family Farm sells vegetables through several tailgate markets, their farmstand, and to wholesale customers. In Anna’s years of farming experience, spring and warm temperatures have been … View >>
Stoney Hollow Farm High Tunnel Fruit Production Grant Award: $10,000 Drosophila Suzukii is an invasive fruit fly pest that damages soft fruit. Due to losses from this pest, Stoney Hollow Farm curtailed growing blackberries and blueberries and instead expanded their vegetable … View >>
Hidden Hollow Hemp and Veggie Farm Enhanced Farm Resilience and Sustainability Grant Award: $10,000 Hidden Hollow Hemp & Vegetable Farm is a 25-acre regenerative operation in Bryson City focused on soil health, biodiversity, and climate-resilient vegetable and hemp production. After multiple … View >>
Sun Seeker Farm Strengthening Farm Viability and Profitability Through Season Extension Grant Award: $10,000 Sun Seeker Farm will use its AgOptions grant to install a gothic-style high tunnel with roll-up sides to extend the growing season, improve flower quality, and … View >>
Morgan Decker, Root Bottom Farm Gothic High Tunnel Grant Award: $8,000 Morgan has replaced three deteriorating wood and PVC hoop houses with a 24′ x 92′ metal-framed gothic-style high tunnel. He has equipped the tunnel with louver vents, end framing, … View >>
Paul Shoemaker, Holly Springs Farm Vegetable Season Extension Project Grant Award: $8,000 To alleviate the constraints of late spring and early fall frosts, Paul installed two high tunnels with end walls. The tunnels will extend the farm’s normal seasonal production … 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 >>
Nikki Sentelle Denson, River Bottom Bounty Farm Tunneling Tomatoes Grant Award: $8,000 Having recently taken over the family farm from her father who suddenly passed away in 2021, Nikki has added a high tunnel with an irrigation system to grow … 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 >>
Savannah Salley, Headwaters Market Garden Caterpillar Tunnels for Organic Vegetable Production Grant Award: $6,000 Organic Production Having farmed successfully on leased land since 2017, Headwaters Market Garden purchased farmland in Polk County in 2020. With the goal of expanding their … View >>
Sarah Coury and Ben Pick, Saturnia Farm Nursery Expansion Grant Award: $6,000 Saturnia Farm, a specialty perennial and native plant nursery, made needed renovations on the farm to expand nursery offerings. They made improvements to an existing high tunnel, with … View >>
Paul & Anna Littman, Ivy Creek Family Farm Caterpillar Tunnels Grant Award: $6,000 After many years of successful growing in permanent hoop houses, the Littmans experienced mineral and salt build up in their hoop house soils, which required remediation. In … View >>
Heather Bryant and Kris Gupton, High Country Herbs Greenhouse and Transplanter Upgrades Grant Award: $6,000 Building on their successful 2019 AgOptions grant project, High Country Herbs upgraded their greenhouse and purchased a transplanter. With their past grant, Heather and Kris … View >>
Heather and Kris Gupton, High Country Herbs Farm Mechanization Grant Award: $6,000 To increase production and reduce labor costs, the Guptons have transitioned to mechanized farm production and adding a Caterpillar Tunnel to their 4-acre operation. They had previously done … View >>
Barry L. Bingham, Dollar Down Farm Growing Under Sliding Thunder Grant Award: $6,000 Barry has added a movable high tunnel to his operation in order to extend his growing season, double his inside growing area, and increase his capacity to … View >>
Julia and John McIntyre, Trebuchet Hill Cucumber Beetle Suppression with Alternative Row Cover and Introduced Pollinators Grant Award: $6,000 Trecuchet Hill has been producing small batch organic artisanal pickles since 2016. Because of their popularity and demand, plans are to … View >>