Burlington--The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) has released its 2022 call for Partnership Grant program proposals.
Applicants are invited to request up to $30,000 in funding to address a topic related to sustainable agriculture. Proposed projects should seek innovative solutions to challenges or explore new opportunities that affect agricultural production, marketing and/or household and community well-being in Northeast farming and food systems. They must be conducted in one of the New England states, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. or West Virginia and strengthen working partnerships with farmers to advance sustainable agriculture.
Proposals are due online by 5 p.m. ET on April 12. Details, including submission instructions, are available at www.northeastsare.org/partnershipgrant. Projects typically run for one to two years with funding ranging from 10,000 to $30,000. No matching funds are required.
Grants may be used to conduct research, offer education and training programs, develop unique machines and tools, organize on-farm or in-market demonstrations or explore new farm management practices. Funding may not be used to support educational programs for non-farming audiences, food donation efforts, community and school gardening initiatives or public awareness campaigns about agriculture and nutrition.
A webinar reviewing eligibility and types of projects and expenses that can be funded can be viewed at https://go.uvm.edu/sare-grant-webinar. As part of the webinar, Samuel Anderson, Cornell Cooperative Extension, shares his experiences applying for and managing a Partnership Grant for his two-spotted spider mite management in urban agriculture.
Northeast SARE is housed within University of Vermont (UVM) Extension, a unit of UVM's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. To learn more, go to https://northeast.sare.org.