| 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. |
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| Audubon Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis | Develop a vacant half-acre lot located in Northeast Minneapolis to provide fresh, culturally-specific produce to low-wealth neighbors in need. In addition, the project will offer workshops focusing on agriculture and value-added production, host on-site markets, and provide mentorships. |
| Augsburg University, Minneapolis | The Cedar-Riverside Urban Agriculture Regeneration Project will increase food production and build community capacity by offering culturally appropriate training and technical support to gardeners in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood of Minneapolis. |
| Bancroft Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis | This project will support an assistant mentor position and provide stipends to youth engaged in their summer gardening program. Youth will tend boulevard, backyard, and community gardens and make their harvest available through free vegetable stands and by hosting community meals. |
| Black Storytellers Alliance, Minneapolis | The Black Storytellers Youth/Community Initiative Program (BSAYCIP) will focus on educating urban youth in agricultural self-sufficiency with the goal of expanding agriculture within the North Minneapolis community. BSAYCIP will allow youth to participate in the process of running a communal garden using farm techniques such as preparing seedlings, planting, maintaining, cultivating, and harvesting food for the community. |
| Cimarron Community Farm, Lake Elmo | Cimarron Community Farm will revamp their farm program to focus on all aspects of growing food from seed to table. They will offer hands-on experiences for youth to plant, water, manage, harvest, and create meals using vegetables they grew at the farm. The farm will create new entrepreneurial opportunities for youth, especially teens, by selling produce at the farmers' market and engaging neighbors. |
| Duluth Community Garden Program, Duluth | Duluth Community Garden Program will create a community garden hub at their Fox Hole Community Garden site. They will build two greenhouses, a shed for storage, and workshop space to host classes for gardeners and the greater community. |
| Ecolibrium3 (Eco3), Duluth | Eco3 will expand its programming at the formerly closed farm site at Lake Superior College to repurpose underutilized infrastructure and build long-term viability by improving the farm site’s programming to align with Lincoln Park's community-expressed needs. |
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC), Cloquet | The FDLTCC Sustainability Demonstration Garden Project will create an intentional demonstration space located at the 14th Street Campus that will encompass renewable energy systems, farmer business development, student-led community demonstrations, and a seasonal farmers' market. |
| Harvest Hope Farm, Moorhead | Harvesting Hope for Others Farm Camps will expand their offerings to include ‘Farm Camp on Wheels’ to be facilitated at Robert Asp Elementary School located in Moorhead. The project will expand youth knowledge of sustainable food resources and expose youth to methods of growing produce including raised beds, hydroponic gardens, container gardens, trellis' and in-ground gardens. |
| Laurel Community School, St. Paul | Laurel Community School’s Agri-Science Educational Gardens will transform an academic instruction in science into a hands-on curriculum about concepts in science and agriculture. Students will grow plants from seeds and harvest produce to share with their community. Students will also be introduced to insects that live in the garden and to the microscopic world in the soil. |
| NativeWise, Sawyer | NativeWise will construct an outdoor learning space to support their workshops focusing on the intergenerational transfer of indigenous agricultural knowledge. This space will create a hands-on learning environment for youth to learn about topics such as plant surveys, seed saving, pasture rotation, forest ecology, bison ecology, and medicinal herb harvesting and processing. |
| Spark-Y, Minneapolis | Spark-Y will construct an educational market garden and outdoor kitchen at WEE Farms located in Savage, providing a youth and community learning site for multicultural agriculture education. In addition, they will curate a recipe book that highlights culturally significant cuisine and gardening techniques of three initial ethnic groups important to Minnesota’s local food system: Hmong, Native American, and Chinese. Finally, they will develop a youth-focused certification on sustainable food systems, multicultural farming, and culinary education. |
| St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS), St. Paul | SPYS’ YouthPowerMN Leadership Institute will develop and pilot YouthPowerED curriculum that will focus on how Black history & identity are impacted by the food system, the history of Black agriculture, and ways that community gardens contribute to equity and food justice within the food system. The curriculum will include garden design, crop varieties, harvesting/preparing food, and visiting local community gardens and partner organizations working with innovative gardening techniques such as small-scale aquaponics. |
| Urban Roots, St. Paul | Urban Roots will use this funding to consult with an irrigation specialist and invest in irrigation infrastructure at their East Side farm sites. |
| Urban Ventures, Minneapolis | Urban Ventures will build 30 raised beds on top of their asphalt parking lot to meet the demand for locally grown, organic food from residents of the neighborhood. In addition, they will add five Ag and Nutrition Educators to increase the opportunities for youth to attend Urban Venture's urban farming and nutrition programs. |
Fiscal Year 2023
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| Audubon Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis | Develop a vacant half-acre lot located in Northeast Minneapolis to provide fresh, culturally-specific produce to low-wealth neighbors in need. In addition, the project will offer workshops focusing on agriculture and value-added production, host on-site markets, and provide mentorships. |
| Augsburg University, Minneapolis | The Cedar-Riverside Urban Agriculture Regeneration Project will increase food production and build community capacity by offering culturally appropriate training and technical support to gardeners in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood of Minneapolis. |
| Bancroft Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis | This project will support an assistant mentor position and provide stipends to youth engaged in their summer gardening program. Youth will tend boulevard, backyard, and community gardens and make their harvest available through free vegetable stands and by hosting community meals. |
| Black Storytellers Alliance, Minneapolis | The Black Storytellers Youth/Community Initiative Program (BSAYCIP) will focus on educating urban youth in agricultural self-sufficiency with the goal of expanding agriculture within the North Minneapolis community. BSAYCIP will allow youth to participate in the process of running a communal garden using farm techniques such as preparing seedlings, planting, maintaining, cultivating, and harvesting food for the community. |
| Cimarron Community Farm, Lake Elmo | Cimarron Community Farm will revamp their farm program to focus on all aspects of growing food from seed to table. They will offer hands-on experiences for youth to plant, water, manage, harvest, and create meals using vegetables they grew at the farm. The farm will create new entrepreneurial opportunities for youth, especially teens, by selling produce at the farmers' market and engaging neighbors. |
| Duluth Community Garden Program, Duluth | Duluth Community Garden Program will create a community garden hub at their Fox Hole Community Garden site. They will build two greenhouses, a shed for storage, and workshop space to host classes for gardeners and the greater community. |
| Ecolibrium3 (Eco3), Duluth | Eco3 will expand its programming at the formerly closed farm site at Lake Superior College to repurpose underutilized infrastructure and build long-term viability by improving the farm site’s programming to align with Lincoln Park's community-expressed needs. |
| Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC), Cloquet | The FDLTCC Sustainability Demonstration Garden Project will create an intentional demonstration space located at the 14th Street Campus that will encompass renewable energy systems, farmer business development, student-led community demonstrations, and a seasonal farmers' market. |
| Harvest Hope Farm, Moorhead | Harvesting Hope for Others Farm Camps will expand their offerings to include ‘Farm Camp on Wheels’ to be facilitated at Robert Asp Elementary School located in Moorhead. The project will expand youth knowledge of sustainable food resources and expose youth to methods of growing produce including raised beds, hydroponic gardens, container gardens, trellis' and in-ground gardens. |
| Laurel Community School, St. Paul | Laurel Community School’s Agri-Science Educational Gardens will transform an academic instruction in science into a hands-on curriculum about concepts in science and agriculture. Students will grow plants from seeds and harvest produce to share with their community. Students will also be introduced to insects that live in the garden and to the microscopic world in the soil. |
| NativeWise, Sawyer | NativeWise will construct an outdoor learning space to support their workshops focusing on the intergenerational transfer of indigenous agricultural knowledge. This space will create a hands-on learning environment for youth to learn about topics such as plant surveys, seed saving, pasture rotation, forest ecology, bison ecology, and medicinal herb harvesting and processing. |
| Spark-Y, Minneapolis | Spark-Y will construct an educational market garden and outdoor kitchen at WEE Farms located in Savage, providing a youth and community learning site for multicultural agriculture education. In addition, they will curate a recipe book that highlights culturally significant cuisine and gardening techniques of three initial ethnic groups important to Minnesota’s local food system: Hmong, Native American, and Chinese. Finally, they will develop a youth-focused certification on sustainable food systems, multicultural farming, and culinary education. |
| St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS), St. Paul | SPYS’ YouthPowerMN Leadership Institute will develop and pilot YouthPowerED curriculum that will focus on how Black history & identity are impacted by the food system, the history of Black agriculture, and ways that community gardens contribute to equity and food justice within the food system. The curriculum will include garden design, crop varieties, harvesting/preparing food, and visiting local community gardens and partner organizations working with innovative gardening techniques such as small-scale aquaponics. |
| Urban Roots, St. Paul | Urban Roots will use this funding to consult with an irrigation specialist and invest in irrigation infrastructure at their East Side farm sites. |
| Urban Ventures, Minneapolis | Urban Ventures will build 30 raised beds on top of their asphalt parking lot to meet the demand for locally grown, organic food from residents of the neighborhood. In addition, they will add five Ag and Nutrition Educators to increase the opportunities for youth to attend Urban Venture's urban farming and nutrition programs. |
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth | Continue Giinawiind Giginitaawigi'gomin programming with Indigenous youth in the Duluth community to restore connections to cultural food practices through gardening, farming, and entrepreneurial skill-building. Youth will attend field trips to area farms, tend urban garden plots, create value-added products, and sell those goods at local farmers’ markets. |
| Appetite for Change, Minneapolis | Establish two “Urban Agriculture Campus” sites in North Minneapolis and transform an existing site into a community garden space. The creation of these sites will increase agriculture education opportunities for youth in North Minneapolis. |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji Area, Bemidji | Continue to support the youth urban agriculture program with additional staff support from the garden manager, an assistant garden manager, a culinary program consultant, an additional hydroponic growing unit, and other essential supplies. |
| Brooklyn Center Community Schools, Brooklyn Center | Support the Gathering Gifts from the Garden Project at Brooklyn Community Schools (BCCS) by developing three distinct garden spaces: a giving garden, a pollinator garden, and a community garden. These spaces will be used by students, community members, and staff to address urban food security issues, teach agriculture production skills, support service-learning projects, and build a sense of belonging and confidence in outdoor spaces within BIPOC populations. |
| Family Freedom Center, Duluth | Increase food production and access at FFC’s two farm sites in the Lincoln Park and Hillside neighborhoods of Duluth. Funds will be used to develop underutilized spaces at these sites and support programming costs and wages for a garden manager and a program coordinator. |
| Hand In Hand Montessori, Roseville | Teach youth sustainable agricultural practices through the development of a productive urban forest. Youth will participate in the planting of 75 fruit trees, participate in local maple syrup production, and attend workshops relating to tree care, forest regeneration, and tree propagation. Workshops will integrate Indigenous knowledge and practices with botany, ecology, and food science. Maple syrup production will be in collaboration with Nawayee Center School, located in Minneapolis. |
| Lower Phalen Creek Project, St. Paul | Create the Indigenous Teaching Gardens at Wakáŋ Tipi Center within Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in Saint Paul. The program will create safe, Dakota-informed teaching gardens that enable youth (ages 5 to 24 years old) to learn about Dakota traditions for sustenance and healing using native plants. Youth will learn organic and sustainable urban plant cultivation, foraging, and understand the importance of restoring and maintaining clean water. |
| Native American Community Development Institute, Minneapolis | Advance Indigenous food sovereignty, strengthen farmer to consumer enterprises, and reverse health disparities in Urban Indian communities via the Four Sisters Urban Farm. The project will educate and serve as a training ground for farming, food preparation, and distribution. |
| Northside Residents Redevelopment Council, Minneapolis | Train youth as urban farmers at the Demonstration Site for Healthy Urban Living located in North Minneapolis. Youth will learn and teach skills in urban gardening, backyard chicken raising, and the use of rain barrels, in addition to becoming community leaders who will advocate for and expand small-scale agriculture and sustainability practices throughout the community. |
| Nova Classical Academy Green Team, St. Paul | Continue to build Nova’s community garden by creating a drip irrigation system and adding a bee and pollinator spaces for further environmental benefit. These implements will serve as new ways for the Nova community to learn the importance of environmental conservation and to observe nature’s inner workings up close. |
| Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis | Increase capacity to host MPS students at the MPS Culinary Center Education Farm for hands-on, agricultural education through increased staff time and key physical improvements to the farm. This project will support the installation of an orchard and medicinal garden, curriculum development, and expanded engagement opportunities for MPS youth. |
| Urban Roots MN, St. Paul | Increase urban agricultural youth enterprise and community engagement on the East Side of St. Paul by rebuilding the produce wash station at 845 Edgerton Street, purchasing and installing equipment, materials, and shipping containers to facilitate increased crop production and youth education activities at Rivoli Bluff Farm & Restoration Site, and hiring two staff to increase capacity for urban agricultural youth programming at Rivoli Bluff and entrepreneurship activities increasing community food access at more farmers market events. |
| Urban Ventures, Minneapolis | Support the Urban Ventures Farm & Nutrition project, educating urban youth in environmental and horticulture science through hands-on farming and bringing locally grown organic food to a community designated as a food desert. Youth will help to run the farm by planting, cultivating, and harvesting food they grow. Youth also gain experience in caring for chickens, bees, and hydroponic plants. |
| YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis | Engage BIPOC students and provide the opportunity to participate in hands-on, immersive agriculture education in their urban setting. Youth will plant heritage seeds and learn about their cultivation from the seed gatherers and other adult scholars from The DIG Lab and All Nation’s Youth in Community Assistance Program (ANYCAP). Youth will also learn how to use solar systems to power aeroponic growing systems, explore agriculture methods, and actualize high level "green" and agriculture careers. |
Fiscal Year 2022
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth | Continue Giinawiind Giginitaawigi'gomin programming with Indigenous youth in the Duluth community to restore connections to cultural food practices through gardening, farming, and entrepreneurial skill-building. Youth will attend field trips to area farms, tend urban garden plots, create value-added products, and sell those goods at local farmers’ markets. |
| Appetite for Change, Minneapolis | Establish two “Urban Agriculture Campus” sites in North Minneapolis and transform an existing site into a community garden space. The creation of these sites will increase agriculture education opportunities for youth in North Minneapolis. |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji Area, Bemidji | Continue to support the youth urban agriculture program with additional staff support from the garden manager, an assistant garden manager, a culinary program consultant, an additional hydroponic growing unit, and other essential supplies. |
| Brooklyn Center Community Schools, Brooklyn Center | Support the Gathering Gifts from the Garden Project at Brooklyn Community Schools (BCCS) by developing three distinct garden spaces: a giving garden, a pollinator garden, and a community garden. These spaces will be used by students, community members, and staff to address urban food security issues, teach agriculture production skills, support service-learning projects, and build a sense of belonging and confidence in outdoor spaces within BIPOC populations. |
| Family Freedom Center, Duluth | Increase food production and access at FFC’s two farm sites in the Lincoln Park and Hillside neighborhoods of Duluth. Funds will be used to develop underutilized spaces at these sites and support programming costs and wages for a garden manager and a program coordinator. |
| Hand In Hand Montessori, Roseville | Teach youth sustainable agricultural practices through the development of a productive urban forest. Youth will participate in the planting of 75 fruit trees, participate in local maple syrup production, and attend workshops relating to tree care, forest regeneration, and tree propagation. Workshops will integrate Indigenous knowledge and practices with botany, ecology, and food science. Maple syrup production will be in collaboration with Nawayee Center School, located in Minneapolis. |
| Lower Phalen Creek Project, St. Paul | Create the Indigenous Teaching Gardens at Wakáŋ Tipi Center within Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in Saint Paul. The program will create safe, Dakota-informed teaching gardens that enable youth (ages 5 to 24 years old) to learn about Dakota traditions for sustenance and healing using native plants. Youth will learn organic and sustainable urban plant cultivation, foraging, and understand the importance of restoring and maintaining clean water. |
| Native American Community Development Institute, Minneapolis | Advance Indigenous food sovereignty, strengthen farmer to consumer enterprises, and reverse health disparities in Urban Indian communities via the Four Sisters Urban Farm. The project will educate and serve as a training ground for farming, food preparation, and distribution. |
| Northside Residents Redevelopment Council, Minneapolis | Train youth as urban farmers at the Demonstration Site for Healthy Urban Living located in North Minneapolis. Youth will learn and teach skills in urban gardening, backyard chicken raising, and the use of rain barrels, in addition to becoming community leaders who will advocate for and expand small-scale agriculture and sustainability practices throughout the community. |
| Nova Classical Academy Green Team, St. Paul | Continue to build Nova’s community garden by creating a drip irrigation system and adding a bee and pollinator spaces for further environmental benefit. These implements will serve as new ways for the Nova community to learn the importance of environmental conservation and to observe nature’s inner workings up close. |
| Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis | Increase capacity to host MPS students at the MPS Culinary Center Education Farm for hands-on, agricultural education through increased staff time and key physical improvements to the farm. This project will support the installation of an orchard and medicinal garden, curriculum development, and expanded engagement opportunities for MPS youth. |
| Urban Roots MN, St. Paul | Increase urban agricultural youth enterprise and community engagement on the East Side of St. Paul by rebuilding the produce wash station at 845 Edgerton Street, purchasing and installing equipment, materials, and shipping containers to facilitate increased crop production and youth education activities at Rivoli Bluff Farm & Restoration Site, and hiring two staff to increase capacity for urban agricultural youth programming at Rivoli Bluff and entrepreneurship activities increasing community food access at more farmers market events. |
| Urban Ventures, Minneapolis | Support the Urban Ventures Farm & Nutrition project, educating urban youth in environmental and horticulture science through hands-on farming and bringing locally grown organic food to a community designated as a food desert. Youth will help to run the farm by planting, cultivating, and harvesting food they grow. Youth also gain experience in caring for chickens, bees, and hydroponic plants. |
| YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis | Engage BIPOC students and provide the opportunity to participate in hands-on, immersive agriculture education in their urban setting. Youth will plant heritage seeds and learn about their cultivation from the seed gatherers and other adult scholars from The DIG Lab and All Nation’s Youth in Community Assistance Program (ANYCAP). Youth will also learn how to use solar systems to power aeroponic growing systems, explore agriculture methods, and actualize high level "green" and agriculture careers. |
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth | AICHO is working with middle and high school students to foster youth development, strengthen the Indigenous food system, and ensure greater and more sustainable access to healthy Indigenous foods through community gardening projects. |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji Area, Bemidji | The Boys and Girls Club of Bemidji is installing a hydroponic growing system at their site to expand their youth agricultural lessons and extend their growing season year-round. |
| Detroit Lakes High School, Detroit Lakes | Detroit Lakes High School is building a long-lasting greenhouse for ag-based curriculum and projects, making agricultural education accessible to all students at every grade level. |
| Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fond du Lac | The Fond du Lac Band is remodeling and expanding the Babaamaadiziwin Gitigaan (Journey Garden) and their outdoor kitchen space to serve as a centerpiece for agricultural education and community development |
| Growing North Minneapolis, Minneapolis | Growing North Minneapolis is hiring youth workers to work at 21 community garden sites, learning ag-based entrepreneurial skills through hands-on growing experiences with farmers and mentors. |
| Hope Community, Minneapolis | Hope Community is educating and engaging 40 youth in three "Farm Science" community garden projects. |
| Lionsgate Academy, Minnetonka | Lionsgate Academy is building a greenhouse to advance career exploration and other learning opportunities for their students. |
| Mankato Area Public Schools, Mankato | Mankato Area Public Schools is building a technology-enhanced greenhouse project to prepare students for "22nd Century" jobs focusing on farm to fork production and sustainability. |
| North Country Food Alliance, Minneapolis | North Country Food Alliance is working with the Somali American Farming Association to expand and update the community garden located at the Horn Towers. The project will also include two food fellows and cultural interpreters to increase accessibility to the garden for residents. |
| Nova Classical Academy Green Team, St. Paul | Nova Classical Academy’s student-led Green Team is installing raised beds and a composter to create educational opportunities for all students. |
| Twin Cities Community Agricultural Land Trust, St. Paul | Twin Cities Community Agricultural Land Trust is upgrading and installing garden equipment to enhance youth lessons and improving accessibility at the UMN Peace Sanctuary Garden, located in St. Paul. |
| Urban Roots, St. Paul | Urban Roots is continuing the development of the Rivoli Urban Farm Site on the East Side of St. Paul. |
| Youth Farm, Minneapolis | Youth Farm is hiring teens and a program specialist for the Youth Social Enterprise (YSE) program, using urban agricultural experiences to improve food access, community health, education, and career development. |
Fiscal Year 2021
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth | AICHO is working with middle and high school students to foster youth development, strengthen the Indigenous food system, and ensure greater and more sustainable access to healthy Indigenous foods through community gardening projects. |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji Area, Bemidji | The Boys and Girls Club of Bemidji is installing a hydroponic growing system at their site to expand their youth agricultural lessons and extend their growing season year-round. |
| Detroit Lakes High School, Detroit Lakes | Detroit Lakes High School is building a long-lasting greenhouse for ag-based curriculum and projects, making agricultural education accessible to all students at every grade level. |
| Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fond du Lac | The Fond du Lac Band is remodeling and expanding the Babaamaadiziwin Gitigaan (Journey Garden) and their outdoor kitchen space to serve as a centerpiece for agricultural education and community development |
| Growing North Minneapolis, Minneapolis | Growing North Minneapolis is hiring youth workers to work at 21 community garden sites, learning ag-based entrepreneurial skills through hands-on growing experiences with farmers and mentors. |
| Hope Community, Minneapolis | Hope Community is educating and engaging 40 youth in three "Farm Science" community garden projects. |
| Lionsgate Academy, Minnetonka | Lionsgate Academy is building a greenhouse to advance career exploration and other learning opportunities for their students. |
| Mankato Area Public Schools, Mankato | Mankato Area Public Schools is building a technology-enhanced greenhouse project to prepare students for "22nd Century" jobs focusing on farm to fork production and sustainability. |
| North Country Food Alliance, Minneapolis | North Country Food Alliance is working with the Somali American Farming Association to expand and update the community garden located at the Horn Towers. The project will also include two food fellows and cultural interpreters to increase accessibility to the garden for residents. |
| Nova Classical Academy Green Team, St. Paul | Nova Classical Academy’s student-led Green Team is installing raised beds and a composter to create educational opportunities for all students. |
| Twin Cities Community Agricultural Land Trust, St. Paul | Twin Cities Community Agricultural Land Trust is upgrading and installing garden equipment to enhance youth lessons and improving accessibility at the UMN Peace Sanctuary Garden, located in St. Paul. |
| Urban Roots, St. Paul | Urban Roots is continuing the development of the Rivoli Urban Farm Site on the East Side of St. Paul. |
| Youth Farm, Minneapolis | Youth Farm is hiring teens and a program specialist for the Youth Social Enterprise (YSE) program, using urban agricultural experiences to improve food access, community health, education, and career development. |
| Organization | Project Summary |
|---|---|
| Appetite for Change, Minneapolis | Train youth and increase production of fresh, organic produce to support on-going urban agriculture initiatives for North Minneapolis residents. |
| ARTS-Us, St. Paul | Develop a year-round program to teach youth urban agriculture practices related to African Diaspora. |
| Center School, Inc., Minneapolis | Teach local youth to grow, harvest, and preserve indigenous crops and heritage foods. |
| Community Action Duluth, Duluth | Provide new urban agriculture employment opportunities to increase local foods production for area farmers markets and the Duluth Farm to School program. |
| FAIR Pilgrim Lane PTO, Robbinsdale | Establish a community garden at FAIR Pilgrim Lane Elementary in Robbinsdale. Project will focus on the production of organic vegetables and herbs, pollinator habitats, and an outdoor classroom. |
| Fond du Lac Reservation, Cloquet | Provide agricultural infrastructure to support Cary Road Farm, a community farm that works to increase food security, food production, and community health for members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. |
| Frogtown Farm, St. Paul | Provide farm tours for local schools and youth organizations. Provide paid internships for neighborhood youth to work on the farm during the growing season. |
| Live Organically, Minneapolis | Establish the Grow Organically Education Program to provide farming, nutrition, and wellness classes and training to North Minneapolis youth. |
| SLP SEEDS, St. Louis Park | Construct a "Tiny" Nomadic Greenhouse Farm offering "Lunch and Learn" programs for local schools, the public library, and nearby affordable housing complexes. |
| Standish Ericsson Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis | Install an outdoor/indoor growing space at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis to extend the growing season and explore cold climate food production. |
| Success Academy, Bloomington | Build a Deep Winter Greenhouse for year-round vegetable production and increased STEM education opportunities. |
| University of Minnesota Extension, St. Cloud | Start a new youth-led 4-H club community garden and apiary to serve St. Cloud youth. |
