Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Calling for 2023 Farmer Grant Proposals:

The Call for 2023 Northeast SARE Farmer Grants is now available. Awards typically range from $5,000 to $30,000, depending upon a project’s complexity and duration. Northeast SARE Farmer Grants provide the resources farmers need to explore new concepts in sustainable agriculture conducted through experiments, surveys, prototypes, on-farm demonstrations or other research and education techniques. Northeast SARE funds projects in a wide variety of topics, including marketing and business, crop production, raising livestock, aquaculture, social sustainability, climate-smart agriculture practices, urban and Indigenous agriculture and more. The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

The online system for submitting proposals will open on Oct 1, 2022. Proposals are due no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on November 15, 2022. View the full call for proposals – www.northeast.sare.org/farmergrantcall