Key Points
- Competitive grant opportunity
- Projects may target areas of food access; education; business and start-up costs for new farmers; and development of policies related to zoning and other needs of urban production.
FIM Opportunities
These grants could help urban agriculture oriented partnerships serving Food Is Medicine approaches.
Grants can include planning or implementation activities.
Planning activities may include:
- Assessing community needs within the local food system
- Evaluating how urban agriculture and innovative production can address issues of food access, nutrition, education, conservation, and economic development
- Creating partnerships to improve growing, distributing, and marketing of nutritious food
- Conducting business planning, feasibility studies, and other strategies, such as community resource development.
Implementation activities may include: increasing food production, promoting agricultural business, supporting community education about food systems, nutrition, agriculture production, and environmental impact; and operating community gardens or nonprofit farms that offer hands-on training in farming or gardening through virtual or web-based formats.
