FY 2023 Grantees
First Bite
| School/School District | City | First Bite Food Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Public Schools, ISD 511 | Adrian | $5,000 | $14,024 | $19,024 |
| Austin Public Schools, ISD 492 | Austin | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Barnesville Public School, ISD 146 | Barnesville | $10,000 | $22,700 | $32,700 |
| Benson Public School, ISD 777 | Benson | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Bluffview Montessori, Dist 4001 | Winona | $9,000 | - | $9,000 |
| Burnsville Eagan Savage, ISD 191 | Burnsville | $10,000 | $2,000 | $12,000 |
| Cook County, ISD 166 | Grand Marais | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School | St Paul | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Duluth Public Schools, ISD 0709 | Duluth | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| East Range Academy of Technology and Science | Mountain Iron | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Fergus Falls Public Schools, ISD 544 | Fergus Falls | $2,500 | $16,573 | $19,073 |
| Frazee Vergas Public Schools, ISD 23 | Frazee | $7,500 | - | $7,500 |
| Fridley Public Schools, ISD 14 | Fridley | $10,000 | $35,000 | $45,000 |
| Granada Huntley East Chain School, ISD 2536 | Granada | $10,000 | $12,152 | $22,152 |
| Hibbing Public Schools, ISD 701 | Hibbing | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Hinckley-Finlayson Public Schools, ISD 2165 | Hinckley | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Holy Rosary School | Detroit Lakes | $7,500 | $16,849 | $24,349 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic School | Pierz | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Intermediate District 287 | Plymouth | $4,000 | - | $4,000 |
| Jordan Public Schools, ISD 717 | Jordan | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Lake of the Woods, ISD 390 | Baudette | $6,000 | - | $6,000 |
| Lake Superior School District, ISD 381 | Two Harbors | $10,000 | $35,000 | $45,000 |
| Lanesboro Public Schools, ISD 229 | Lanesboro | $10,000 | $35,000 | $45,000 |
| Mankato Area Public Schools, ISD 77 | Mankato | $10,000 | $14,000 | $24,000 |
| Minnewaska Area Schools, ISD 2149 | Glenwood | $10,000 | $6,700 | $16,700 |
| Moorhead Area Public Schools, ISD 152 | Moorhead | $5,000 | $10,760 | $15,760 |
| Mountain Lake Christian School | Mountain Lake | $5,000 | $1,709 | $6,709 |
| Nativity of Our Lord School | St. Paul | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Nett Lake Public Schools, ISD 707 | Nett Lake | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| North Branch Area Public Schools, ISD 138 | North Branch | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Northland Community Schools, ISD 118 | Remer | $3,500 | $13,891 | $17,391 |
| Paynesville Public Schools, ISD 741 | Paynesville | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Pelican Rapids Public Schools, ISD 548 | Pelican Rapids | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Pine Island Public Schools; ISD 255 | Pine Island | $10,000 | $18,160 | $28,160 |
| Plainview-Elgin-Millville Schools, ISD 2899 | Plainview | $7,500 | $699 | $8,199 |
| Red Lake School District, ISD 38 | Red Lake | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Red Rock Central, ISD 2884 | Lamberton | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Richfield Public Schools, ISD 280 | Richfield | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Ridgeway Community School, CSD 4083 | Houston | $3,000 | - | $3,000 |
| Rush City School, ISD 139 | Rush City | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Rushford-Peterson Public Schools, ISD 239 | Rushford | $9,962 | - | $9,962 |
| SAGE Academy, CSD 4087 | Brooklyn Park | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Saint Charles Public Schools, ISD 858 | Saint Charles | $10,000 | $16,357 | $26,357 |
| Salem Lutheran School | Stillwater | $6,000 | $1,995 | $7,995 |
| Sartell-St. Stephen Public Schools, ISD 748 | Sartell | $7,500 | - | $7,500 |
| Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, ISD 47 | Sauk Rapids | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Schoolcraft Learning Community, CSD 4058 | Bemidji | $10,000 | $10,000 | |
| Springfield Public Schools, ISD 85 | Springfield | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| St Peter Public Schools, ISD 508 | St. Peter | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| St. Peter Lutheran School | St. Peter | $2,500 | $105 | $2,605 |
| Staples-Motley School District, ISD 2170 | Staples | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| United South Central Public Schools, ISD 2134 | Wells | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Vermilion Country School | Tower | $7,500 | - | $7,500 |
| Voyageurs Expeditionary School, CSD 4107 | Bemidji | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Willow River Public Schools, ISD 577 | Willow River | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Wrenshall Public Schools, ISD 100 | Wrenshall | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| Zion Lutheran Church and School | Alexandria | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Zumbrota-Mazeppa Public Schools, ISD 2805 | Zumbrota | $10,000 | $18,160 | $28,160 |
Full Tray
| School/School District | City | Full Tray Food Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aitkin Public Schools, ISD 1 | Aitkin | $41,000 | $13,573 | $54,573 |
| Alexandria Public Schools, ISD 206 | Glenwood/Alexandria | $27,183 | $28,550 | $55,733 |
| All Saints Catholic School | Lakeville | $7,000 | - | $7,000 |
| Becker Public Schools, ISD 726 | Becker | $17,000 | - | $17,000 |
| Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Public, ISD 2364 | Belgrade | $22,600 | - | $22,600 |
| Bloomington Public Schools, ISD 271 | Bloomington | $48,974 | $19,000 | $67,974 |
| Brainerd Public Schools, ISD 181 | Brainerd | $100,000 | $10,600 | $110,600 |
| Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose, ISD 877 | Buffalo | $28,500 | - | $28,500 |
| Cannon Falls Public Schools, ISD 252 | Cannon Falls | $52,250 | - | $52,250 |
| Crosby-Ironton Public Schools, ISD 182 | Crosby | $31,000 | - | $31,000 |
| Crosslake Community School, CSD 4059 | Crosslake | $6,000 | $1,160 | $7,160 |
| Dassel Cokato Public Schools, ISD 466 | Cokato | $104,263 | $35,000 | $139,263 |
| Deer River Public Schools, ISD 317 | Deer River | $53,978 | - | $53,978 |
| Delano Public Schools, ISD 879 | Delano | $62,000 | - | $62,000 |
| Detroit Lakes Schools, ISD 22 | Detroit Lakes | $57,266 | $8,000 | $65,266 |
| Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Public Schools, ISD 2164 | Dilworth | $71,000 | - | $71,000 |
| Eden Prairie Public Schools, ISD 272 | Eden Prairie | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| First Evangelical Lutheran School | Glencoe | $6,700 | $4,350 | $11,050 |
| Foley Public Schools, ISD 51 | Foley | $60,000 | - | $60,000 |
| Fond du Lac Reservation Ojibwe School | Cloquet | $20,634 | - | $20,634 |
| Glacial Hills Elementary, CSD 4168 | Starbuck | $17,500 | - | $17,500 |
| Heron Lake Okabena Public Schools, ISD 330 | Okabena/Heron Lake | $30,000 | - | $30,000 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic School | South Saint Paul | $12,500 | - | $12,500 |
| Hopkins Public Schools, ISD 270 | Hopkins | $150,000 | $2,090 | $152,090 |
| Hutchinson Public Schools, ISD 423 | Hutchinson | $141,687 | $35,000 | $176,687 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School | Gaylord | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Lake City Schools, ISD 813 | Lake City | $35,000 | - | $35,000 |
| Litchfield Public Schools, ISD 465 | Litchfield | $91,127 | $35,000 | $126,127 |
| McGregor Public School, ISD 4 | McGregor | $18,084 | - | $18,084 |
| Mesabi East Schools, ISD 2711 | Aurora | $65,270 | $9,979 | $75,249 |
| Minneapolis Public Schools-Special School Dist No. 1 | Minneapolis | $150,000 | - | $150,000 |
| Morris Area Public Schools, ISD 2769 | Morris | $36,000 | - | $36,000 |
| New Millennium Academy, CSD 4143 | Brooklyn Center | $15,754 | $4,837 | $20,591 |
| New Ulm Area Catholic Schools | New Ulm | $12,800 | - | $12,800 |
| Northwestern MN Juvenile Center | Bemidji | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva, ISD 2168 | New Richland | $53,744 | - | $53,744 |
| Osseo Area Public Schools, ISD 279 | Maple Grove | $100,000 | - | $100,000 |
| Pine City Public Schools, ISD 578 | Pine City | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, ISD 719 | Prior Lake | $125,000 | $35,000 | $160,000 |
| Riverway Learning Community | Winona | $8,600 | - | $8,600 |
| Robbinsdale Area Schools, ISD 281 | New Hope | $142,629 | $20,007 | $162,636 |
| Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Schools, ISD 196 | Rosemount | $150,000 | $23,750 | $173,750 |
| Roseville Public Schools, ISD 623 | Roseville | $120,000 | $29,444 | $149,444 |
| Saint Anthony New Brighton Schools, ISD 282 | St. Anthony | $30,000 | $34,388 | $64,388 |
| Saint Paul Public Schools, ISD 625 | St. Paul | $100,000 | - | $100,000 |
| St Louis Park Public Schools, ISD 283 | St. Louis Park | $50,000 | - | $50,000 |
| St. Cloud Public Schools, ISD 742 | Waite Park | $100,000 | $18,811 | $118,811 |
| St. Croix Preparatory Academy, CSD 4120 | Stillwater | $30,722 | - | $30,722 |
| St. Michael-Albertville Schools, ISD 885 | Albertville | $50,000 | $19,577 | $69,577 |
| St. Wenceslaus School | New Prague | $13,520 | $5,920 | $19,440 |
| The Journey School | Saint Paul | $13,300 | $3,847 | $17,147 |
| Wabasha-Kellogg Schools, ISD 811 | Wabasha | $19,500 | - | $19,500 |
| Wayzata Public Schools, ISD 284 | Plymouth/Wayzata | $150,000 | $35,000 | $185,000 |
| White Bear Lake Public Schools, ISD 624 | White Bear Lake | $50,000 | $35,000 | $85,000 |
| Willmar Public Schools, ISD 347 | Willmar | $28,000 | $10,000 | $38,000 |
| Winona Area Public Schools, ISD 861 | Winona | $11,500 | - | $11,500 |
First Bite
| School/School District | County | First Bite Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alden Conger Public School | Freeborn | $3,000 | - | $3,000 |
| Butterfield-Odin School District | Watonwan | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Caledonia Area Public Schools | Houston | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Cannon Falls Schools | Goodhue | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Delano Public Schools | Wright | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| DeLaSalle High School | Hennepin | $5,000 | $4,347 | $9,347 |
| First Lutheran School | McLeod | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Glacial Hills Elementary | Pope | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Glenville-Emmons Public Schools | Freeborn | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| Hennepin Schools | Hennepin | $5,000 | $800 | $5,800 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic School | Dakota | $5,000 | $9,926 | $14,926 |
| MN State Academies | Rice | $5,000 | $1,727.50 | $6,727.50 |
| New Millennium Academy | Hennepin | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center | Beltrami | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| NRHEG Public Schools | Waseca | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Pine City Public Schools | Pine | $4,000 | - | $17,048.18 |
| Plymouth Christian Youth Center | Hennepin | $5,000 | $1,330 | $6,330 |
| Russell Tyler Ruthton (RTR) Public Schools | Lincoln | $5,000 | $13,188.24 | $18,188.24 |
| Sacred Heart School | Stearns | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| St. Bernard's Catholic School | Pennington | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| St. Croix Prep Academy | Washington | $5,000 | $1,250 | $6,250 |
| St. Peter's Catholic School | Yellow Medicine | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| The Journey School | Ramsey | $5,000 | $10,775.20 | $15,775.20 |
| Wabasha-Kellogg Public School | Wabasha | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| White Bear Lake Area Schools | Ramsey | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Windom Area Schools | Cottonwood | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
Full Tray
| School/School District | County | Full Tray Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becker Public Schools | Sherburne | $5,000 | $9,344.58 | $14,344.58 |
| Columbia Heights Public Schools | Anoka | $12,524.90 | $25,000 | $37,524.90 |
| Dassel-Cokato Independent Schools | Wright | $35,000 | $13,219 | $48,219 |
| Dilworth Glyndon Felton Public Schools | Clay | $6,250 | - | $6,250 |
| Foley Public Schools | Benton | $20,357.50 | $25,000 | $45,357.50 |
| Fond du Lac Reservation | Carlton | $4,470 | $10,970 | $15,440 |
| Holdingford Public Schools | Stearns | $10,510.50 | - | $10,510.50 |
| Hutchinson Public Schools | McLeod | $35,000 | $25,000 | $60,000 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School | Sibley | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| Lake City public Schools | Goodhue | $10,483 | - | $10,483 |
| Litchfield Independent Schools | Meeker | $28,733 | $25,000 | $53,733 |
| Mesabi East Schools | St. Louis | $14,075.75 | $17,964.36 | $32,040.11 |
| New Prague Area Schools | Le Sueur | $7,250 | $19,500 | $26,750 |
| New Ulm Area Catholic Schools | Brown | $3,000 | $1,630 | $4,630 |
| Northfield Public Schools | Rice | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools | Scott | $27,000 | $14,500 | $41,500 |
| Riverway Learning Community | Winona | $2,566.26 | $162.40 | $2,728.66 |
| Robbinsdale Area Schools | Hennepin | $35,000 | $18,000 | $53,000 |
| Roseville Area Schools | Ramsey | $35,000 | $25,000 | $60,000 |
| St. Anthony-New Brighton Area Schools | Ramsey | $15,716.11 | $22,500 | $38,216.11 |
FY 2022 Grantees
First Bite
| School/School District | County | First Bite Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alden Conger Public School | Freeborn | $3,000 | - | $3,000 |
| Butterfield-Odin School District | Watonwan | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Caledonia Area Public Schools | Houston | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Cannon Falls Schools | Goodhue | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Delano Public Schools | Wright | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| DeLaSalle High School | Hennepin | $5,000 | $4,347 | $9,347 |
| First Lutheran School | McLeod | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Glacial Hills Elementary | Pope | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Glenville-Emmons Public Schools | Freeborn | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| Hennepin Schools | Hennepin | $5,000 | $800 | $5,800 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic School | Dakota | $5,000 | $9,926 | $14,926 |
| MN State Academies | Rice | $5,000 | $1,727.50 | $6,727.50 |
| New Millennium Academy | Hennepin | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center | Beltrami | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| NRHEG Public Schools | Waseca | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Pine City Public Schools | Pine | $4,000 | - | $17,048.18 |
| Plymouth Christian Youth Center | Hennepin | $5,000 | $1,330 | $6,330 |
| Russell Tyler Ruthton (RTR) Public Schools | Lincoln | $5,000 | $13,188.24 | $18,188.24 |
| Sacred Heart School | Stearns | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| St. Bernard's Catholic School | Pennington | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| St. Croix Prep Academy | Washington | $5,000 | $1,250 | $6,250 |
| St. Peter's Catholic School | Yellow Medicine | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| The Journey School | Ramsey | $5,000 | $10,775.20 | $15,775.20 |
| Wabasha-Kellogg Public School | Wabasha | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| White Bear Lake Area Schools | Ramsey | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Windom Area Schools | Cottonwood | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
Full Tray
| School/School District | County | Full Tray Award | Equipment Award | Total Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becker Public Schools | Sherburne | $5,000 | $9,344.58 | $14,344.58 |
| Columbia Heights Public Schools | Anoka | $12,524.90 | $25,000 | $37,524.90 |
| Dassel-Cokato Independent Schools | Wright | $35,000 | $13,219 | $48,219 |
| Dilworth Glyndon Felton Public Schools | Clay | $6,250 | - | $6,250 |
| Foley Public Schools | Benton | $20,357.50 | $25,000 | $45,357.50 |
| Fond du Lac Reservation | Carlton | $4,470 | $10,970 | $15,440 |
| Holdingford Public Schools | Stearns | $10,510.50 | - | $10,510.50 |
| Hutchinson Public Schools | McLeod | $35,000 | $25,000 | $60,000 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School | Sibley | $2,500 | - | $2,500 |
| Lake City public Schools | Goodhue | $10,483 | - | $10,483 |
| Litchfield Independent Schools | Meeker | $28,733 | $25,000 | $53,733 |
| Mesabi East Schools | St. Louis | $14,075.75 | $17,964.36 | $32,040.11 |
| New Prague Area Schools | Le Sueur | $7,250 | $19,500 | $26,750 |
| New Ulm Area Catholic Schools | Brown | $3,000 | $1,630 | $4,630 |
| Northfield Public Schools | Rice | $5,000 | - | $5,000 |
| Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools | Scott | $27,000 | $14,500 | $41,500 |
| Riverway Learning Community | Winona | $2,566.26 | $162.40 | $2,728.66 |
| Robbinsdale Area Schools | Hennepin | $35,000 | $18,000 | $53,000 |
| Roseville Area Schools | Ramsey | $35,000 | $25,000 | $60,000 |
| St. Anthony-New Brighton Area Schools | Ramsey | $15,716.11 | $22,500 | $38,216.11 |
First Bite
| School | Amount |
|---|---|
| All Saints Catholic Schools | $3,400 |
| Aurora Waasakone Community of Learners | $5,000 |
| ISD 0877 Buffalo Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Crosslake Community School | $5,000 |
| ISD 0330 Heron Lake-Okabena Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School | $5,000 |
| ISD 0740 Melrose Public Schools | $5,000 |
| New Ulm Area Catholic Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0553 New York Mills Public Schools | $5,000 |
| St Mary’s School Breckenridge | $2,500 |
| ISD 0487 Upsala Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Winona Area Public Schools | $5,000 |
Full Tray
| School | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISD 0206 Alexandria Public Schools | $11,201 |
| ISD 0271 Bloomington Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0466 Dassel Cokato Public Schools | $8,500 |
| ISD 0272 Eden Prairie Public Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0270 Hopkins Public Schools | $10,837 |
| ISD 0423 Hutchinson Public Schools | $17,500 |
| ISD 0465 Litchfield Public Schools | $9,000 |
| ISD 2711 Mesabi East Schools | $9,841 |
| ISD 0001 Minneapolis Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0659 Northfield Public Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0719 Prior Lake Public Schools | $18,235 |
| Riverway Learning Community | $2,568 |
| ISD 0281 Robbinsdale Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0623 Roseville Public Schools | $27,200 |
| ISD 0282 St. Anthony New Brighton Public Schools | $9,125 |
FY 2021 Grantees
First Bite
| School | Amount |
|---|---|
| All Saints Catholic Schools | $3,400 |
| Aurora Waasakone Community of Learners | $5,000 |
| ISD 0877 Buffalo Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Crosslake Community School | $5,000 |
| ISD 0330 Heron Lake-Okabena Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Immanuel Lutheran School | $5,000 |
| ISD 0740 Melrose Public Schools | $5,000 |
| New Ulm Area Catholic Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0553 New York Mills Public Schools | $5,000 |
| St Mary’s School Breckenridge | $2,500 |
| ISD 0487 Upsala Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Winona Area Public Schools | $5,000 |
Full Tray
| School | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISD 0206 Alexandria Public Schools | $11,201 |
| ISD 0271 Bloomington Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0466 Dassel Cokato Public Schools | $8,500 |
| ISD 0272 Eden Prairie Public Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0270 Hopkins Public Schools | $10,837 |
| ISD 0423 Hutchinson Public Schools | $17,500 |
| ISD 0465 Litchfield Public Schools | $9,000 |
| ISD 2711 Mesabi East Schools | $9,841 |
| ISD 0001 Minneapolis Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0659 Northfield Public Schools | $5,000 |
| ISD 0719 Prior Lake Public Schools | $18,235 |
| Riverway Learning Community | $2,568 |
| ISD 0281 Robbinsdale Public Schools | $35,000 |
| ISD 0623 Roseville Public Schools | $27,200 |
| ISD 0282 St. Anthony New Brighton Public Schools | $9,125 |
| Organization | City | Project Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Appetite For Change | Minneapolis | Engage North Minneapolis youth in agricultural programming through paid hands-on training at urban farms, enabling 30 participants to grow and donate 7,500 lbs. of produce, develop a tailored curriculum, and sustain long-term community impact. |
| Augsburg University | Minneapolis | Enhance the Augsburg Community Garden project in Cedar-Riverside by upgrading garden infrastructure, hosting multilingual community events, and increasing food production through culturally relevant gardening practices. |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area | Bemidji | Revitalize the club's garden space by incorporating a new curriculum, capturing rainwater to eliminate flooding, adding a pollinator garden, and developing a plan to build sustainability into the garden program. |
| Child Care Choices Inc. dba Milestones | Waite Park (various locations) | Implement the Harvesting Bright Futures: Urban Agriculture for Child Care project, equipping 100 family child care educators with the tools, training, and resources to integrate urban agriculture education into their programs. Project will reach over 600 young children annually. |
| City of Richfield, Recreation Dept, Richfield Farmers Market | Richfield | Deliver youth and adult programs at the Richfield Community Center on gardening, cooking with homegrown produce, and food business development. Project will also purchase communal tools, install an outdoor garden shed, and build raised beds at two community garden sites. |
| Darling Little Farm | St. Paul | Deliver weekly agriculture workshops for persons with disabilities and caretakers through partnership with Highland Friendship Club. Funds will be used to develop curriculum and purchase equipment and materials for those classes. |
| East Phillips Neighborhood Institute | Minneapolis | Expand existing community workshop programming to provide free, environmentally-focused education informed by Indigenous traditional knowledge to local K-12 youth through summer camps and at after school programs. Funds will also be used to continue community-wide cultural workshops at community gardens in the East Phillips neighborhood. |
| Folwell Neighborhood Association | Minneapolis | Add infrastructure to protect and add to the functionality of the Folwell Neighborhood gardens, increasing accessibility to the community. Funds will also be used to provide stipends to their garden managers at two garden sites. |
| Freedom Farms MPLS | Minneapolis | Transform a vacant North Minneapolis lot into a vibrant green space, engage residents and youth with urban farming and sustainability workshops, improve food security, promote environmental stewardship, and create local agricultural job opportunities for a resilient community. |
| Friendly Hmong Farms LLC | Minnetonka | Establish a professional development program for Hmong women farmers and youth in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties. Funds will support regenerative farming, entrepreneurship, and market access through intergenerational farming opportunities. |
| Friends School of Minnesota | St. Paul | Install seven raised beds, fruit trees, a hydroponic system, and chickens on school grounds, engaging K–8 students in garden maintenance to deepen agricultural knowledge. |
| Frog Tree Farm | Brooklyn Park | Empower urban youth in Brooklyn Park and surrounding neighborhoods with hands-on farm education, cohort-based seed sowing, soil health projects, expert-led workshops, and rural farm retreats to cultivate sustainability, ag career pathways, and urban–rural partnerships. |
| Global Entrepreneurship Week Minnesota | St. Paul | Expand Way of the Roots Farm family farming program at two new St. Paul locations. The project will focus on a tiered mentorship program where teen farmers will train younger children in sustainable growing practices and wellness opportunities through agriculture. |
| Hand In Hand | Roseville | Equip and integrate urban ag infrastructure, including maple syrup equipment, raised beds, greenhouse, composting, brick oven, and hydroponics, to establish a self-sustaining farm and hands-on educational programming led by four student teams. |
| Harvest Hope Farm | Moorhead | Cultivate agriculture knowledge and creativity with mobile Farm Camp on Wheels and on-site programs for youth ages 3–17. Funds will be used to purchase art supplies and other necessary learning tools to facilitate these camps, staff wages for on-site and mobile camps, and art structures that will be created by program youth. |
| Headwaters Regional Development Commission | Bemidji | Revitalize Conifer Estates community garden in Bemidji by replacing 10 raised beds with fresh soil, installing irrigation, and supplying seeds and tools. Funds will also be used to organize workshops to connect residents to the garden spaces. |
| Hermantown Community Schools | Hermantown | Develop the Hermantown Learning Garden to expose youth aged Pre-K - 5, to the growth cycle and process of growing food through hands-on learning opportunities. Funds will be used to purchase supplies for raised beds, garden infrastructure, starter plants, and other garden equipment. |
| Humboldt High School Garden Project | St. Paul | Expand Humboldt School Garden by adding an orchard and raised beds, hiring students for summer care and harvest, improving soil health with compost and mulch, installing drip irrigation, and building cold frames to extend the growing season. |
| Irreducible Grace Foundation | St. Paul | Deepen youth engagement in sustainable urban agriculture at Frogtown’s Black Youth Healing Arts Center by expanding garden beds, integrating African American heritage gardening methods, launching a mobile Pay-What-You-Can Market, and funding stipends and coordinators. |
| Lake Region Healthcare Foundation | Fergus Falls | Increase production capacity at the Lake Region Takes Root Community Garden by building a greenhouse. Produce will be donated to area food shelves. A youth education and internship position will also be initiated using grant funds. |
| Lower Phalen Creek Project | St. Paul | Establish a four sisters demonstration garden at Wakan Tipi Center in St. Paul. Funds will purchase a storage container, raised beds, and other equipment to make the learning space accessible to the community, including youth, elders, and those with physical disabilities. |
| Midwest Food Connection | St. Paul | Equip West Side (St. Paul) K–12 students with hands-on urban agriculture education, raising plants, harvesting produce, tending to neighborhood gardens, and creating a mentorship opportunity for high school youth to work with elementary-aged youth |
| Native American Community Development Institute | Minneapolis | Continue community food sovereignty in the Phillips neighborhood by enhancing programming across three sites, building infrastructure, supplying maintenance materials, staffing events, and launching a summer internship at the Four Sisters Urban Farm and Farmers' Market. |
| Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center | Bemidji | Provide Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center's youth hands-on agricultural opportunities by restoring a greenhouse with utilities, creating a fenced-in space to add more garden beds, and purchasing necessary equipment to support the programs' growth |
| Owatonna Alternative Learning Center | Owatonna | Implement a hydroponic agriculture program to teach students green-tech skills, entrepreneurship, and agricultural growing practices. |
| Pillsbury United Communities | Minneapolis | Facilitate educational opportunities for youth aged 14-18 as a part of the Pillsbury Untied Communities Food System Youth Internship program. Funds will be used to support a cohort of 5 paid youth interns in an 8-week summer internship and a cohort of 4 paid youth interns during an academic year internship, using the on-site garden space as the classroom. |
| Seward Montessori Parent Teacher Association | Minneapolis | Construct 6–8 garden structures in Seward Montessori’s courtyard to establish a vegetable and medicinal plant garden that fosters environmental stewardship and hands-on learning. |
| Sheridan Neighborhood Organization | Minneapolis | Expand the donation garden by building a retaining wall, installing perennial beds, hiring a Garden Manager, and driving outreach and educational signage to boost food security, sustainability, and community engagement at the community garden. |
| Sustainable Farming Association | Minneapolis | Support the Twin Cities Metro Growers Network (TCMG) through a three-year series of educational and networking events designed to educate and connect urban growers, strengthening community connections and sustainable farming skills among Minneapolis–St. Paul urban growers. |
| Textile Center | Minneapolis | Expand the Dye Garden along University Avenue’s north sidewalk, install drip irrigation and natural‐fiber composting, cultivate native dye plants, and sustain accessible, multilingual fiber‐art education via signage, forums, classes, internships, and community partnerships within the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. |
| UMN Extension 4-H Youth Development | Minneapolis (various locations) | Empower young people to understand the connections between climate science and food systems through hands-on projects such as building hydroponic systems, growing microgreens, container gardening, youth-led community action projects, and climate story podcasts. Field trips to local farms and urban-ag businesses will be a component of this project. Based at multiple sites in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, Waconia, Carver, and St. Paul. |
| Urban Roots MN | St. Paul | Support the Market Garden Program and Community Garden Program on the East Side (St. Paul) by improving water infrastructure, covering staff wages, providing mentor stipends, and purchasing necessary farm equipment. |
| Urban Ventures | Minneapolis | Develop a cohort of 7 educators to teach 500 youth (pre-k to high school) a variety of agriculture and nutrition experiences, tripling the number of youth impacted. Funds will cover wages for youth educators and a hydroponics manager. |
Fiscal Year 2025
| Organization | City | Project Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Appetite For Change | Minneapolis | Engage North Minneapolis youth in agricultural programming through paid hands-on training at urban farms, enabling 30 participants to grow and donate 7,500 lbs. of produce, develop a tailored curriculum, and sustain long-term community impact. |
| Augsburg University | Minneapolis | Enhance the Augsburg Community Garden project in Cedar-Riverside by upgrading garden infrastructure, hosting multilingual community events, and increasing food production through culturally relevant gardening practices. |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area | Bemidji | Revitalize the club's garden space by incorporating a new curriculum, capturing rainwater to eliminate flooding, adding a pollinator garden, and developing a plan to build sustainability into the garden program. |
| Child Care Choices Inc. dba Milestones | Waite Park (various locations) | Implement the Harvesting Bright Futures: Urban Agriculture for Child Care project, equipping 100 family child care educators with the tools, training, and resources to integrate urban agriculture education into their programs. Project will reach over 600 young children annually. |
| City of Richfield, Recreation Dept, Richfield Farmers Market | Richfield | Deliver youth and adult programs at the Richfield Community Center on gardening, cooking with homegrown produce, and food business development. Project will also purchase communal tools, install an outdoor garden shed, and build raised beds at two community garden sites. |
| Darling Little Farm | St. Paul | Deliver weekly agriculture workshops for persons with disabilities and caretakers through partnership with Highland Friendship Club. Funds will be used to develop curriculum and purchase equipment and materials for those classes. |
| East Phillips Neighborhood Institute | Minneapolis | Expand existing community workshop programming to provide free, environmentally-focused education informed by Indigenous traditional knowledge to local K-12 youth through summer camps and at after school programs. Funds will also be used to continue community-wide cultural workshops at community gardens in the East Phillips neighborhood. |
| Folwell Neighborhood Association | Minneapolis | Add infrastructure to protect and add to the functionality of the Folwell Neighborhood gardens, increasing accessibility to the community. Funds will also be used to provide stipends to their garden managers at two garden sites. |
| Freedom Farms MPLS | Minneapolis | Transform a vacant North Minneapolis lot into a vibrant green space, engage residents and youth with urban farming and sustainability workshops, improve food security, promote environmental stewardship, and create local agricultural job opportunities for a resilient community. |
| Friendly Hmong Farms LLC | Minnetonka | Establish a professional development program for Hmong women farmers and youth in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties. Funds will support regenerative farming, entrepreneurship, and market access through intergenerational farming opportunities. |
| Friends School of Minnesota | St. Paul | Install seven raised beds, fruit trees, a hydroponic system, and chickens on school grounds, engaging K–8 students in garden maintenance to deepen agricultural knowledge. |
| Frog Tree Farm | Brooklyn Park | Empower urban youth in Brooklyn Park and surrounding neighborhoods with hands-on farm education, cohort-based seed sowing, soil health projects, expert-led workshops, and rural farm retreats to cultivate sustainability, ag career pathways, and urban–rural partnerships. |
| Global Entrepreneurship Week Minnesota | St. Paul | Expand Way of the Roots Farm family farming program at two new St. Paul locations. The project will focus on a tiered mentorship program where teen farmers will train younger children in sustainable growing practices and wellness opportunities through agriculture. |
| Hand In Hand | Roseville | Equip and integrate urban ag infrastructure, including maple syrup equipment, raised beds, greenhouse, composting, brick oven, and hydroponics, to establish a self-sustaining farm and hands-on educational programming led by four student teams. |
| Harvest Hope Farm | Moorhead | Cultivate agriculture knowledge and creativity with mobile Farm Camp on Wheels and on-site programs for youth ages 3–17. Funds will be used to purchase art supplies and other necessary learning tools to facilitate these camps, staff wages for on-site and mobile camps, and art structures that will be created by program youth. |
| Headwaters Regional Development Commission | Bemidji | Revitalize Conifer Estates community garden in Bemidji by replacing 10 raised beds with fresh soil, installing irrigation, and supplying seeds and tools. Funds will also be used to organize workshops to connect residents to the garden spaces. |
| Hermantown Community Schools | Hermantown | Develop the Hermantown Learning Garden to expose youth aged Pre-K - 5, to the growth cycle and process of growing food through hands-on learning opportunities. Funds will be used to purchase supplies for raised beds, garden infrastructure, starter plants, and other garden equipment. |
| Humboldt High School Garden Project | St. Paul | Expand Humboldt School Garden by adding an orchard and raised beds, hiring students for summer care and harvest, improving soil health with compost and mulch, installing drip irrigation, and building cold frames to extend the growing season. |
| Irreducible Grace Foundation | St. Paul | Deepen youth engagement in sustainable urban agriculture at Frogtown’s Black Youth Healing Arts Center by expanding garden beds, integrating African American heritage gardening methods, launching a mobile Pay-What-You-Can Market, and funding stipends and coordinators. |
| Lake Region Healthcare Foundation | Fergus Falls | Increase production capacity at the Lake Region Takes Root Community Garden by building a greenhouse. Produce will be donated to area food shelves. A youth education and internship position will also be initiated using grant funds. |
| Lower Phalen Creek Project | St. Paul | Establish a four sisters demonstration garden at Wakan Tipi Center in St. Paul. Funds will purchase a storage container, raised beds, and other equipment to make the learning space accessible to the community, including youth, elders, and those with physical disabilities. |
| Midwest Food Connection | St. Paul | Equip West Side (St. Paul) K–12 students with hands-on urban agriculture education, raising plants, harvesting produce, tending to neighborhood gardens, and creating a mentorship opportunity for high school youth to work with elementary-aged youth |
| Native American Community Development Institute | Minneapolis | Continue community food sovereignty in the Phillips neighborhood by enhancing programming across three sites, building infrastructure, supplying maintenance materials, staffing events, and launching a summer internship at the Four Sisters Urban Farm and Farmers' Market. |
| Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center | Bemidji | Provide Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center's youth hands-on agricultural opportunities by restoring a greenhouse with utilities, creating a fenced-in space to add more garden beds, and purchasing necessary equipment to support the programs' growth |
| Owatonna Alternative Learning Center | Owatonna | Implement a hydroponic agriculture program to teach students green-tech skills, entrepreneurship, and agricultural growing practices. |
| Pillsbury United Communities | Minneapolis | Facilitate educational opportunities for youth aged 14-18 as a part of the Pillsbury Untied Communities Food System Youth Internship program. Funds will be used to support a cohort of 5 paid youth interns in an 8-week summer internship and a cohort of 4 paid youth interns during an academic year internship, using the on-site garden space as the classroom. |
| Seward Montessori Parent Teacher Association | Minneapolis | Construct 6–8 garden structures in Seward Montessori’s courtyard to establish a vegetable and medicinal plant garden that fosters environmental stewardship and hands-on learning. |
| Sheridan Neighborhood Organization | Minneapolis | Expand the donation garden by building a retaining wall, installing perennial beds, hiring a Garden Manager, and driving outreach and educational signage to boost food security, sustainability, and community engagement at the community garden. |
| Sustainable Farming Association | Minneapolis | Support the Twin Cities Metro Growers Network (TCMG) through a three-year series of educational and networking events designed to educate and connect urban growers, strengthening community connections and sustainable farming skills among Minneapolis–St. Paul urban growers. |
| Textile Center | Minneapolis | Expand the Dye Garden along University Avenue’s north sidewalk, install drip irrigation and natural‐fiber composting, cultivate native dye plants, and sustain accessible, multilingual fiber‐art education via signage, forums, classes, internships, and community partnerships within the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. |
| UMN Extension 4-H Youth Development | Minneapolis (various locations) | Empower young people to understand the connections between climate science and food systems through hands-on projects such as building hydroponic systems, growing microgreens, container gardening, youth-led community action projects, and climate story podcasts. Field trips to local farms and urban-ag businesses will be a component of this project. Based at multiple sites in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, Waconia, Carver, and St. Paul. |
| Urban Roots MN | St. Paul | Support the Market Garden Program and Community Garden Program on the East Side (St. Paul) by improving water infrastructure, covering staff wages, providing mentor stipends, and purchasing necessary farm equipment. |
| Urban Ventures | Minneapolis | Develop a cohort of 7 educators to teach 500 youth (pre-k to high school) a variety of agriculture and nutrition experiences, tripling the number of youth impacted. Funds will cover wages for youth educators and a hydroponics manager. |
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| 180 Degrees Inc. | Install a teaching garden on-site at a St. Cloud Youth Center. Funds will support the development and delivery of urban agriculture educational programming for at least 95 youth experiencing homelessness annually. |
| Anishinaabe Agricultural Institute | Build community gardens and greenhouses to teach regenerative agriculture practices and traditional ecological knowledge for youth in the Village of Pine Point, a village of the White Earth Nation. |
| Anoka High School | Construct the Agriculture All Inclusive Learning Greenhouse, creating a space for students to learn the multifaceted nature of agriculture and how it connects to daily living. |
| Basic Needs Inc. of South Washington County | Support the Growth for Good Community Garden by funding new garden equipment and supplies. Funds will be used to replace a garden shed, purchase a tiller, build ten new raised beds, and fill all 44 garden beds with new soil. |
| Community Action Duluth | Expand the Seeds of Success program at Denfield High Schools. Funds will be used to increase the number of garden beds, improve the on-site compost system, provide educational experiences, and support the deepening relationship between the garden space and the school community. |
| Crookston Public School | Construct a year-round solar greenhouse to provide hands-on agricultural experiences for all students in ISD 593. |
| East Phillips Improvement Coalition | Facilitate collaboration between four community gardens and urban farms across the Phillips Neighborhoods to create a food sovereignty network. The coalition will utilize funds to share resources, coordinate educational events, fund garden infrastructure, and hire a project manager. |
| Family Freedom Center | Build upon current programming to expand youth farming workshops, food preservation techniques, and entrepreneurship training, enhancing urban agriculture within the Black community in Duluth. |
| Frogtown Farm | Enhance Frogtown Farm's capacity for urban agriculture by installing a post-harvest processing station and repurposing an existing shed into a community kitchen for value-added production. |
| Frogtown Green | Promote urban agriculture community development through weekly gardening workshops for youth and community members. The project will take place at Frogtown Green's four urban farming and agriculture-related spaces in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. |
| Global Entrepreneurship Week Minnesota | Teach community members about sustainable farming practices, renewable energy, and urban agriculture at Way of the Root Farm. |
| Harvest Hope Farm | Expand Farm Camp and Farm Camp on Wheels programming to teach youth about sustainability in agriculture, careers in agriculture, where their food comes from, life skills, and how to pay it forward in their community. |
| Hope Community Inc. | Establish the Food, Land and Community (FLC) program to conduct a 19-month project to develop and pilot a replicable, scalable youth education program in the form of paid summer internships in urban agriculture. |
| Hutchinson Public Schools | Create a space for students from all grade levels to experience local agriculture up close. Funds will purchase a walk-in cooler, build composting infrastructure, work tables, and a produce washing station for students to use. |
| Iron Range Partnership for Sustainability | Build a Deep Winter Greenhouse at Rock Ridge High School, creating a space that will be a living classroom utilized by science classes, including Horticulture and Science 9, whose state standards revolve around climate science; culinary arts courses making fresh salads; and Indigenous Education projects. |
| Irreducible Grace Foundation | Support African American Heritage Gardening Methods & Market, encompassing the expansion of a community garden, integrating African American heritage gardening methods, and the launching a weekly "pay what you can" urban farmers market. |
| Living Earth Center | Engaging Mankato-area youth in hands-on agricultural experiences through the Seeds 2 Sauce program. Funds will be used to pay for staff to develop and teach the program, and to purchase supplies and materials for growing produce and establishing on-site gardens. |
| Prairie PRAXIS | Encourage future leadership in urban agriculture via community connectors/garden coordinators, youth leaders, youth stewards, & youth volunteers, all of whom will work with urban farmers & gardeners in the Moorhead area. Most participants will be BIPOC & underserved. |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Empower Hmong youth through cultural immersion experiences and education focused on rediscovering their agricultural roots. The project will involve and honor Hmong farmers who support this initiative through teaching youth traditional agricultural practices and food preservation and preparation methods through visits to the school as well as field trips to their farms. |
| Sheridan Neighborhood Organization | Hire a Garden Manager to oversee the community garden volunteer program and manage crop rotation, soil building and harvesting. Funds will also be used to build a chicken wire fence around the donation plot to deter pests and increase produce available for donation. |
| Spark-Y | Create an urban farm highlighting various permanent and “sand box” farming applications to promote youth empowerment in environmental work, high school technical training, and employer-backed certifications. |
| Sprout MN | Support the Gamradt Park Community Garden to purchase raised plant beds, fencing, and essential tools for gardening and pay for staff to manage the program. Produce and programming will be available for senior citizens and those with limited access to land. |
| St. Cloud State University Community Garden | Collaborate with SCSU’s American Indian Center and Biology Department to create a Healing Garden featuring native plantings, medicinals, and traditional ceremonial herbs. Serving as an outdoor learning space providing hands-on education for on- and off-campus visitors, this venue for workshops and classes for area youth, university students, and area community members will expand on the mission and purpose of the SCSU Community Garden. |
| Star of the North Academy | Refresh the on-campus garden space by rebuilding the garden beds, installing a new greenhouse, and exposing students to Minnesota agriculture through farm field trips. |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Collaborate with the Little Earth of United Tribe to promote the production of Yellow Perch at the urban aquaponics facility located in the East Philips neighborhood. Funds will supply Yellow Perch fingerlings, and provide workforce development to Little Earth community youth and MN undergraduates. |
| Urban Roots MN | Expand Urban Roots' Community Garden Program by increasing Culturally Specific Crop partnerships and improving their urban agriculture curriculum for youth interns. |
| WE WIN Institute | Support the development of teaching and pollinator gardens at WE WIN’s permanent home in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis as well as the WE WIN cooking program, which connects youth with local chefs to cook food harvested from the WE WIN garden. |
| Winona Area Public Schools ISD 0861 | "Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers with Hydroponics" by purchasing hydroponic equipment and educating school staff and students on how to grow year-round, nutritious produce. |
| Woodbury Thrives/Woodbury Community Foundation | Triple the number of plots at the Woodbury Community Garden, building a more inclusive space for community members to grow their own produce. Funds will be used to make some plots ADA-compliant and to purchase community-owned garden equipment. |
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) is an industry term for value-added products that customers use up and replace on a frequent basis. CPG packaging is designed to differentiate the product from its competitors.
For this program, a Minnesota-based company is an entity that is organized or authorized to do business under the laws of Minnesota and is actively registered with the Minnesota Secretary of State. The entity must maintain a physical presence in the state (such as a headquarters, production site, warehouse, or administrative office) and be in good standing at the time of application and throughout the reimbursement period.
A re-seller is a retailer that resells goods to the end consumer or a wholesaler that resells goods to retailers at a marked-up price. This also includes affiliate marketers that add value through combining related products or repackaging products.
Traditional business-to-business (B2B) tradeshows are showcases for manufacturers to display their products to wholesale buyers. Manufacturers and brand owners contract to rent a booth space at an event so they can pitch their products to buyers in-person.
Virtual tradeshows are online events that include 1:1 meetings between manufacturers and wholesale buyers that are arranged in advance by an event organization, trade association, or distributor.
Events that include general “consumer” attendance or admission do not qualify as tradeshows.
Badge scanning is a way for exhibitors to electronically collect and compile leads at an event. It is usually accomplished by purchasing and downloading an app from the event organizer. The app then allows exhibitors to take photos of attendee (buyer) badges with their smart phone or other device and keep all the information in one place. It’s a replacement for sharing business cards, although cards are still used.
For this cost-share program, a third-party e-commerce marketplace or platform is a web-based tool or marketplace used by Minnesota food and beverage CPG companies to gain exposure and make sales directly to online shoppers (individual consumers) or wholesale food buyers (retailers and foodservice operators).
Third-party e-commerce marketplace and platforms include entities such as Amazon, Amazon FBA or other fulfillment services, Alibaba, Shopify, RangeMe, GrazeCart, Wordpress, Squarespace, and Local Line.
Online sales and transactional platforms offered by copackers, distributors, retailers, and other resellers (and any other entities that buy and resell products from manufacturers) do not meet our definition of a third-party e-commerce marketplace or platform.
Fiscal Year 2024
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| 180 Degrees Inc. | Install a teaching garden on-site at a St. Cloud Youth Center. Funds will support the development and delivery of urban agriculture educational programming for at least 95 youth experiencing homelessness annually. |
| Anishinaabe Agricultural Institute | Build community gardens and greenhouses to teach regenerative agriculture practices and traditional ecological knowledge for youth in the Village of Pine Point, a village of the White Earth Nation. |
| Anoka High School | Construct the Agriculture All Inclusive Learning Greenhouse, creating a space for students to learn the multifaceted nature of agriculture and how it connects to daily living. |
| Basic Needs Inc. of South Washington County | Support the Growth for Good Community Garden by funding new garden equipment and supplies. Funds will be used to replace a garden shed, purchase a tiller, build ten new raised beds, and fill all 44 garden beds with new soil. |
| Community Action Duluth | Expand the Seeds of Success program at Denfield High Schools. Funds will be used to increase the number of garden beds, improve the on-site compost system, provide educational experiences, and support the deepening relationship between the garden space and the school community. |
| Crookston Public School | Construct a year-round solar greenhouse to provide hands-on agricultural experiences for all students in ISD 593. |
| East Phillips Improvement Coalition | Facilitate collaboration between four community gardens and urban farms across the Phillips Neighborhoods to create a food sovereignty network. The coalition will utilize funds to share resources, coordinate educational events, fund garden infrastructure, and hire a project manager. |
| Family Freedom Center | Build upon current programming to expand youth farming workshops, food preservation techniques, and entrepreneurship training, enhancing urban agriculture within the Black community in Duluth. |
| Frogtown Farm | Enhance Frogtown Farm's capacity for urban agriculture by installing a post-harvest processing station and repurposing an existing shed into a community kitchen for value-added production. |
| Frogtown Green | Promote urban agriculture community development through weekly gardening workshops for youth and community members. The project will take place at Frogtown Green's four urban farming and agriculture-related spaces in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. |
| Global Entrepreneurship Week Minnesota | Teach community members about sustainable farming practices, renewable energy, and urban agriculture at Way of the Root Farm. |
| Harvest Hope Farm | Expand Farm Camp and Farm Camp on Wheels programming to teach youth about sustainability in agriculture, careers in agriculture, where their food comes from, life skills, and how to pay it forward in their community. |
| Hope Community Inc. | Establish the Food, Land and Community (FLC) program to conduct a 19-month project to develop and pilot a replicable, scalable youth education program in the form of paid summer internships in urban agriculture. |
| Hutchinson Public Schools | Create a space for students from all grade levels to experience local agriculture up close. Funds will purchase a walk-in cooler, build composting infrastructure, work tables, and a produce washing station for students to use. |
| Iron Range Partnership for Sustainability | Build a Deep Winter Greenhouse at Rock Ridge High School, creating a space that will be a living classroom utilized by science classes, including Horticulture and Science 9, whose state standards revolve around climate science; culinary arts courses making fresh salads; and Indigenous Education projects. |
| Irreducible Grace Foundation | Support African American Heritage Gardening Methods & Market, encompassing the expansion of a community garden, integrating African American heritage gardening methods, and the launching a weekly "pay what you can" urban farmers market. |
| Living Earth Center | Engaging Mankato-area youth in hands-on agricultural experiences through the Seeds 2 Sauce program. Funds will be used to pay for staff to develop and teach the program, and to purchase supplies and materials for growing produce and establishing on-site gardens. |
| Prairie PRAXIS | Encourage future leadership in urban agriculture via community connectors/garden coordinators, youth leaders, youth stewards, & youth volunteers, all of whom will work with urban farmers & gardeners in the Moorhead area. Most participants will be BIPOC & underserved. |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Empower Hmong youth through cultural immersion experiences and education focused on rediscovering their agricultural roots. The project will involve and honor Hmong farmers who support this initiative through teaching youth traditional agricultural practices and food preservation and preparation methods through visits to the school as well as field trips to their farms. |
| Sheridan Neighborhood Organization | Hire a Garden Manager to oversee the community garden volunteer program and manage crop rotation, soil building and harvesting. Funds will also be used to build a chicken wire fence around the donation plot to deter pests and increase produce available for donation. |
| Spark-Y | Create an urban farm highlighting various permanent and “sand box” farming applications to promote youth empowerment in environmental work, high school technical training, and employer-backed certifications. |
| Sprout MN | Support the Gamradt Park Community Garden to purchase raised plant beds, fencing, and essential tools for gardening and pay for staff to manage the program. Produce and programming will be available for senior citizens and those with limited access to land. |
| St. Cloud State University Community Garden | Collaborate with SCSU’s American Indian Center and Biology Department to create a Healing Garden featuring native plantings, medicinals, and traditional ceremonial herbs. Serving as an outdoor learning space providing hands-on education for on- and off-campus visitors, this venue for workshops and classes for area youth, university students, and area community members will expand on the mission and purpose of the SCSU Community Garden. |
| Star of the North Academy | Refresh the on-campus garden space by rebuilding the garden beds, installing a new greenhouse, and exposing students to Minnesota agriculture through farm field trips. |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Collaborate with the Little Earth of United Tribe to promote the production of Yellow Perch at the urban aquaponics facility located in the East Philips neighborhood. Funds will supply Yellow Perch fingerlings, and provide workforce development to Little Earth community youth and MN undergraduates. |
| Urban Roots MN | Expand Urban Roots' Community Garden Program by increasing Culturally Specific Crop partnerships and improving their urban agriculture curriculum for youth interns. |
| WE WIN Institute | Support the development of teaching and pollinator gardens at WE WIN’s permanent home in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis as well as the WE WIN cooking program, which connects youth with local chefs to cook food harvested from the WE WIN garden. |
| Winona Area Public Schools ISD 0861 | "Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers with Hydroponics" by purchasing hydroponic equipment and educating school staff and students on how to grow year-round, nutritious produce. |
| Woodbury Thrives/Woodbury Community Foundation | Triple the number of plots at the Woodbury Community Garden, building a more inclusive space for community members to grow their own produce. Funds will be used to make some plots ADA-compliant and to purchase community-owned garden equipment. |
