Earthen Heart Farmland Commons The Farmers Land Trust will use this grant to work with land donor Julian Lauzzana, young Black farmer Alita Kelly, West Michigan Young Farmers, Access of West Michigan and others to establish the 501(c)(25) Earthen Heart Farmland Commons in southwestern Michigan. A farmland commons is an innovative model in which local […]
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U-Pick Gives Back: Strengthening Farms and Communities Through Local Food This grant will support “U-Pick Gives Back,” a pilot project that will enable customers at U-pick farms to round up purchases and contribute directly to ensuring that their food-insecure neighbors have access to locally grown food. Farms will use the funds generated to purchase their
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Urban Hives Project Detroit Hives will use this grant to install and maintain 8 to 10 honeybee hives adjacent to urban farms in the Brightmoor Community of Detroit. Urban growers in Detroit have reported reduced yields due to gaps in pollination caused by shrinking pollinator habitat, land fragmentation, and lack of investment. Detroit Hives will
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Fresh Food Connections: Wholesale Readiness This grant supports a pilot project designed to expand Michigan’s local food infrastructure by helping mid-sized, often BIPOC-owned farms in the greater Flint region transition from direct-to-consumer markets into wholesale channels. By pairing individualized readiness assessments with marketing tools, producer stipends, and facilitated connections to institutional buyers, the project builds
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Rooted in Sovereignty Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) will use this grant to strengthen the social infrastructure that underpins Detroit’s large and diverse urban agriculture network. Through a year of interconnected programming—including seasonal grower gatherings, intergenerational storytelling and cultural workshops, hands-on education, and citywide events—KGD aims to deepen the relationships, shared knowledge, and cultural continuity that
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Building Toward Zero Waste at the Detroit Food Commons DBCFSN will use this grant to support community-centered food waste composting operations at the Detroit People’s Food Co-op (DPFC), a member-owned grocery store cooperative in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. DBCFSN believes that food waste composting is a critical component of a closed loop food economy, “where
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The People’s Mart With this grant, Flint Social Club will install critical infrastructure in “The People’s Mart,” a community-powered food hub that will create markets, storage capacity, and processing infrastructure for small- and mid-sized Michigan growers, food processors, and emerging food entrepreneurs, especially those from BIPOC, immigrant, and low-income communities. The Food Hub also will
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Food Hub Planning Project This grant will enable Grow Jackson to complete a plan and strategy for developing a regional food hub in Jackson County to strengthen the local food economy and fill a critical infrastructure gap in South Central Michigan. The planned food hub will include a year-round farm stop (a locally sourced, consignment-based
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Strengthening Small-scale Livestock Producers in Northwest Lower Michigan Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology will use this grant to support a pilot initiative designed to strengthen small-scale livestock farming systems in Northwest Lower Michigan. The initiative will create a business-to-business collaborative of livestock farmers that will work to identify and overcome barriers to small-scale livestock
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Partnership to Expand the Farm Stop Model Farmers, consumers, policymakers, and others are interested in learning about and expanding the farm stop model. Farm stops are everyday farmers markets where farmers own and price their products but importantly can return to the farm while their products remain on sale daily and year-round. Argus Farm Stop
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